Position:Licensed Mental Health Clinician (LMHC) Compensation:$76,000-$104,000 YearlyDept:ClinicalType:ExemptReports To:Assistant Director of The Pines Location:On Site
Benefits: (check for FT, PT or All)
- Reduced Cost Meals every shift on site (All)
- Employee assistance program (EAP) (All)
- Insurance coverage: Health, vision, dental, life, supplemental and pet insurance (FT)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) (FT)
- Generous Paid time off (PTO) (FT)
- 401k w/company match (FT)
- Tuition/Professional development assistance (FT)
Who You Are:- You have a passion for working with the autism population and believe meaningful change occurs through strong therapeutic relationships, individualized care, and ensuring the safety and well-being of students and staff.
- You are a thoughtful, relationship-centered licensed mental health clinician with experience supporting autistic children, adolescents, and young adults with complex behavioral, psychiatric, developmental, and social-emotional needs.
- You utilize evidence-informed counseling approaches to help students build emotional regulation, coping skills, social-emotional development, and overall well-being.
- You collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams, including educators, clinicians, residential staff, behavioral specialists, medical providers, and families to support individualized student goals across school, residential, and community environments.
- You are comfortable integrating therapeutic interventions across academic, residential, and campus life environments.
- You utilize student-centered, strength-based approaches to counseling and treatment planning while embracing reflective practice, evidence-informed care, and continuous professional growth.
- You remain calm, analytical, and solutions-focused when responding to challenging behaviors or crisis situations.
- You demonstrate curiosity, compassion, clinical humility, sound judgment, professionalism, and discretion when working with students and confidential information.
- You get the job done and are capable of strategic thinking while simultaneously rolling up your sleeves to lead and teach by example.
- You have strong written communication skills, specifically involving documentation, progress notes, incident reports, and other related administrative tasks.
Job Responsibilities:Clinical Assessment & Treatment- Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial, behavioral, and social-emotional assessments.
- Develop, implement, and monitor individualized treatment goals, including ITEPs, FBAs, and BIPs as appropriate.
- Provide individual, group, and family therapy using evidence-informed, trauma-informed interventions.
- Collect and analyze clinical and behavioral data to guide treatment decisions and measure progress.
- Provide clinical consultation across classroom, residential, and community settings.
- Respond to behavioral and psychiatric crises and participate in TCIS interventions.
- Maintain timely, accurate clinical documentation in accordance with organizational, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration- Serve as an active member of the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- Collaborate with education, residential, psychiatry, nursing, mental health, behavior analysis, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and families to coordinate care.
- Participate in admissions, treatment planning, quarterly reviews, transition planning, and discharge planning.
- Promote consistency of therapeutic and behavioral support across settings.
Family Partnership- Provide family therapy, caregiver support, and parent coaching.
- Maintain regular communication with families to support collaboration, progress updates, visitation planning, and continuity of care.
Systems Consultation & Staff Development- Provide coaching, consultation, and modeling to education and residential staff.
- Support implementation of behavior plans through staff training, observation, and ongoing consultation.
- Recommend environmental and programmatic modifications to support student success.
Crisis Prevention & Clinical Risk Management- Develop proactive crisis prevention strategies and contribute to Individual Crisis Management Plans (ICMPs) and Recovery Zone planning.
- Provide clinical consultation during behavioral crises and participate in post-crisis reviews.
- Support safe, least restrictive interventions consistent with organizational policies and best practices.
Professional Responsibilities- Participate in reflective supervision, quality improvement initiatives, chart audits, and departmental meetings.
- Provide supervision to interns or trainees as appropriate.
- Maintain licensure, certifications, professional competencies, and required training.
- Uphold ethical, relationship-centered practice, confidentiality, mandated reporting requirements, and organizational policies.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Please note: This job description is not a comprehensive list of tasks or responsibilities. Specific assignments can change within the relevant field and training of your position, with or without notice.
Position Requirements:- Master's degree in counseling, Social Work, Creative Arts Therapy, Psychology, or other closely related behavioral health fields required.
- Current New York State licensure in good standing as an LMHC, LCSW, LMSW, LCAT, or another approved clinical license required.
- Minimum of three years of clinical experience providing assessment and psychotherapy services required.
- Experience working with autistic individuals or individuals with developmental disabilities is strongly preferred.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including clinical documentation and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to manage challenging behaviors and respond effectively during crisis situations.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.
- Ability to get TCIS trained and complete/maintain all required training.
- Due to the nature of work in supporting our students, all job description lists the physical requirements for that position
- Our campus consists of some paved areas but primarily consists of grass, gravel paths and parking lots. Additionally, many areas of our building are fully accessible, however, as a historic building some areas are only accessible by stairs.
- You must be able to ambulate around the campus, including hills, stairs, grass, and gravel.
- Student Facing Positions:
- Must be able to react and move quickly during student crisis, both for the safety of the student and for the staff.
- Must be able to run across the campus and throughout the school to catch/monitor an eloping student, and/or to remove yourself from an unsafe situation.
- You must be able to pass TCIS (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools).
- You must be able to bend, stretch, sit, stand, crouch or kneel for sustained periods of time if implementing a hold.
- Special Accommodations can be requested but will only be approved if the accommodation does not impact the ability to perform your position, and it does not put yourself, a student, or any other staff member at risk of harm or injury.
Competencies:Clinical- Biopsychosocial, behavioral, and social-emotional assessment
- Individual, group, and family therapy
- Treatment planning and behavioral intervention (ITEPs, FBAs, BIPs)
- Clinical data collection and progress monitoring
- Crisis intervention and risk management
- Evidence-informed and trauma-informed care
Behavioral- Student-centered, strength-based practice
- Emotional regulation and coping skills development
- De-escalation and crisis response
- Therapeutic relationship building
- Clinical judgment and adaptability
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools (TCIS)
Collaboration & Communication- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Family and caregiver partnership
- Staff consultation and coaching
- Clinical documentation and reporting
- Care coordination
Safety & Compliance- Confidentiality and ethical practice
- Regulatory and accreditation compliance
- Mandated reporting
- Accurate and timely documentation
- CPR & First Aid
