Outpatient Clinician - Per Diem

Show your passion by empowering youth and families when joining the Wayside team!

Wayside is one of Massachusetts' most respected youth and family-serving agencies, supporting more than 6,000 youth and families annually across Central, Eastern, and Northeastern regions. 
 
Wayside offers a learning environment – free trainings and CEUs. We provide a teamwork atmosphere and career development support – a great place to grow your career!!!

Outpatient Clinician

Per Diem - Milford

Salary Range: $35.00 - $45.00/hour. 

Wayside is seeking Master's level Clinicians to provide collaborative outpatient clinical services to children, adolescents, and their families. We offer a Fee-for-Service, hybrid position, with flexibility to meet with clients virtually and at our offices in Milford. Some after-school/evening hours are required.

What you will do:   

• Provide short term and ongoing individual, sibling, and family treatment as clinically indicated and in accordance with program specifications for youth between 2 and 20 years old.
• Conduct intakes for new clients, assessing for medical necessity as indicated.  
• Complete comprehensive clinical assessments, CANS and develop treatment plans according to program specifications.  
• Provide crisis intervention services with clients as needed.  
• Collaborate with family, schools, and other providers throughout treatment and make referrals to community supports as needed.
• Serve as HUB for services such as therapeutic mentoring when needed.

Competencies/Traits of Our Superstars:   

• Ability to highlight and validate strengths in young people and their families. 
• Respectful curiosity to learn from a person’s lived experiences. 
• Committed to providing culturally informed treatment. 
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and follow through to complete tasks accordingly to timelines including notes within 48 hours of date of service.
• Work within a recovery model framework emphasizing the person’s journey not just their diagnosis.
• Strong diagnostic and clinical writing skills.
• Competence with computer skills and comfort using an electronic health record (EHR) for clinical documentation.
• Familiarity with evidenced-based modalities such as ARC, Motivational Interviewing, and others a plus.

Minimum Requirements:    

• Masters Degree in Social Work, Mental Heath Counseling, or related field plus experience providing services to children, adolescents, and families. 
• Non-licensed or license eligible clinicians encouraged to apply. Pay differentials for independent license and fluency in some languages other than English.

What You Will Receive:

• Weekly supervision from an independently licensed supervisor.
• Training in Motivational Interviewing, ARC, and Courageous Conversations.