Licensed Clinician-Worcester, MA

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About the Program

We intervene upstream by teaming up with families to stay together. Families in crisis are often facing real-world stressors, such as poverty. But the right combination of supports when they need it most can help build bridges to brighter days.

Through our Support & Stabilization program, we provide intensive in-home supports to families involved with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) who are working to maintain or regain custody of their children. We provide services to alleviate the crises that brought them there, so that more families can stay intact and fewer children are placed into foster care.

Who We Are Looking For

HopeWell's Support and Stabilization Program seeks a licensed clinician who combines professional excellence with genuine compassion to transform family outcomes. You'll bring advanced therapeutic skills directly into homes and communities, creating healing environments for children and families referred by the Department of Children and Families (DCF). Your clinical license isn't just a credential—it's the foundation for your adaptable, strengths-based approach that helps families navigate complex challenges toward reunification or permanency planning. If you thrive in dynamic settings, find fulfillment in meeting clients where they are, and believe in every family's capacity for positive change, your expertise could become the catalyst that helps vulnerable families rewrite their stories.

The Impact You'll Create

As a Licensed Clinician guided by our Clinical Supervisor, you'll become the cornerstone of transformative care teams that change family trajectories. Your specialized therapeutic expertise will empower children and families as you collaborate seamlessly with HopeWell's resource teams and DCF partners in a unified mission of healing. Through trauma-informed individual and family therapy, you'll help clients rewrite narratives of pain into stories of possibility. Your clinical insights will inform case management strategies that connect families to vital community resources, while your advocacy ensures every child's voice is heard and honored. With each therapeutic relationship, you'll not only safeguard children's immediate wellbeing but nurture the family resilience that creates lasting stability—turning professional standards into deeply personal victories for the families who need your expertise the most.

Your Impact Will Include (Job Responsibilities)

• Provide in person community based clinical counseling services for caseload of children, adolescents and families
• Conduct ongoing assessments and evaluations of children’s and families’ strengths, progress and needs
• In conjunction with the treatment team, develop strength-based treatment plans and safety plans as needed for each child or family, outlining specific goals, objectives and evidence-based therapeutic interventions
• In cases where the service delivery calls for a team approach, act as the primary HopeWell team lead to ensure a safe, affirming environment is established and maintained for all youth served
• Maintain case files and documentation for children, foster families, and biological families in accordance with state regulations and agency policies
• Develop a working knowledge of community resources and make referrals and connections on behalf of those served
• Assist caregivers in navigating systems, to promote their awareness of resources and access to supports
• Collaborate with DCF, community organizations, and service providers as appropriate
• Attend all necessary meetings, including but not limited to Foster Care Reviews, treatment planning meetings, and intake and discharge planning meetings
• Provide transportation for children to visits, appointments, court, meetings, etc. as needed
• Participate in an after-hours on-call system on a rotating basis. This may occasionally include an emergency in-person response outside of business hours
• Provide all pertinent paperwork, receipts, and necessary information to ensure timely and accurate processing of billing, reimbursements, client support expenses, purchases, etc.
• Participate in weekly supervision, staff meetings, and required trainings

The Expertise We Can't Do Without (Qualifications)

• License Eligible Master’s degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family therapy, or related discipline.
• Mid-tier license (LCSW, LSMHC) working towards independent licensure within licensing standards required
• Independent License Preferred (LMHC, LICSW, LMFT)
• Minimum of 1 year in a clinical setting working with children, adolescents, and families with severe behavioral, social, and emotional difficulties

Additional Skills That Set You Apart (Competencies)

• Demonstrated experience working with children, adolescents, and families, including experience navigating children’s systems and supports within the community
• Knowledge of and training in child development, children’s mental health, family systems, and therapeutic interventions
• Capacity to be nonjudgmental in interacting with families involved in child welfare
• Ability to support families in developing their strengths to problem-solve and develop practical skills
• Ability to establish trusting relationships through compassion, empathy, and insight
• Demonstrated sensitivity to the needs of families from diverse cultural or linguistic backgrounds
• Proficient in basic computer skills and Microsoft Office. Ability to navigate and document in clinical computerized patient care records
• Ability to work in predominantly home-based and community-based settings where there may be possible environmental exposures, including pets
• Effective teamwork and collaboration skills

Other Essential Requirements

• Clearing of background checks as required by state and federal law
• Must remain current in all required trainings and licensure requirements
• Access to an automobile is required, as is a valid Driver’s License
• Staff schedules can shift over time as youth needs, staff caseloads, and program needs change
• Some evening and weekend work as well as occasional in-person emergency response outside of business hours may be required
• Other duties as assigned to support quality care

The HopeWell Difference – Benefits Beyond the Paycheck

• Generous Hiring Bonus
• Independent License Differential offered for Licensed Clinician Role
• We offer a generous bilingual bonus to new hires who speak a second language that meets the needs of our families (other than English) – up to $3,500
• Access to our excellent BCBS medical benefits
• Retirement benefits, including 401K, match up to 6%
• Generous paid time off up; up to 5 weeks off; 2 floating holidays, 2 personal days, 14 paid holidays, up to 15 sick days
• Professional development opportunities such as tuition reimbursement up to $3,000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities! Additional funds for training and development.
• Reimbursement is available for employees to cover the registration costs and annual fees for any professional license required for work! As well as bonuses for licensure attainment
• Wellness benefits including access to employee resource groups, discounted gym memberships, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Student Loan Pay-Down Program – Let us help you pay down your student loans!
• Licensure supervision and on-call stipend
• And more…Click this link to find out more about our benefits beyond the paycheck! https://hopewellinc.org/careers/benefits/