What are the responsibilities and job description for the Intake Clinician position at Lund?
Join The Lund Team: support and empower Vermont families!
Intake Clinician
Join The Lund Team as an Intake Clinician and support Vermont families! For over 132 years, Lund has empowered families and helped children thrive by breaking cycles of poverty, addiction, and abuse. Serving over 5,000 individuals annually, Lund offers education, treatment, family support, and adoption services. Enjoy competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and professional growth opportunities in an inclusive, supportive workplace. As an Intake Clinician, you’ll recruit, screen, and assess clients, provide treatment recommendations, facilitate therapeutic groups, and collaborate with community providers. Join us to make a meaningful impact on Vermont families and help create a safe, loving environment for all children.
Lund is a qualified employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness.
About the Position:
Working toward licensure? Lund provides free clinical supervision!
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Intake Clinician
Join The Lund Team as an Intake Clinician and support Vermont families! For over 132 years, Lund has empowered families and helped children thrive by breaking cycles of poverty, addiction, and abuse. Serving over 5,000 individuals annually, Lund offers education, treatment, family support, and adoption services. Enjoy competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and professional growth opportunities in an inclusive, supportive workplace. As an Intake Clinician, you’ll recruit, screen, and assess clients, provide treatment recommendations, facilitate therapeutic groups, and collaborate with community providers. Join us to make a meaningful impact on Vermont families and help create a safe, loving environment for all children.
Lund is a qualified employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness.
About the Position:
Working toward licensure? Lund provides free clinical supervision!
- Responsible for recruitment efforts, screening and assessment of potential residential clients
- Present potential referrals to referral team for review, update and maintain residential waitlist and census report
- Maintain contact and connection with clients on the waiting list
- Provide initial treatment recommendations for new admissions
- Responsible for facilitating weekly therapeutic groups, individual mental health and/or substance use disorder counseling, and family counseling when indicated along with corresponding documentation
- Provide integrated co-occurring treatment for pregnant and parenting individuals residing in the Residential Treatment Program at Lund
- Participate in the following:
- Weekly group supervision with clinical staff
- Weekly supervision with Residential Program Coordinator
- Required clinical and treatment meetings
- Provide formal and informal training opportunities for residential staff regarding mental health and substance use disorder treatment best practices and treatment options
- Provides assistance in urine analysis and breathalyzer collection and results interpretation
- Participate as part of the on-call team in responding to residential after hours needs
- Facilitate treatment groups utilizing evidenced based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Relapse Prevention and narrative therapy
- Complete required paperwork in a timely manner
- Ongoing communication with community providers
- Non-Licensed pay at $27.50/hr. Licensed at $33.70/hr
- Other duties as assigned
- Master’s degree in clinical social work or other counseling-based field and minimum of Apprentice Substance Abuse Counselor certificate.
- Experience working with children, parenting and/or pregnant women, and substance use disorder treatment
- Experience in group, family, and couples counseling
- Sensitivity to women’s issues
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Familiarity with regulations, laws and procedures of the Vermont Agency of Human Services
- Exhibit theoretical and practical knowledge and experience with systems theory, family dynamics and child and adolescent development
- Knowledge of substance abuse treatment and relapse prevention
- Ability to collaborate with other professional disciplines, participate as a team member, complete assessment, treatment planning, maintain records and reports
- Possess flexibility, adaptability to change within program structure
- Demonstrate creativity and initiative as well as excellent interpersonal skills
- Possess a value system that includes a nonjudgmental attitude regarding reproductive choice, parenting options, and substance abusing clients. Display caring, responsive, respectful attitude towards others
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to maintain a valid VT Driver’s License and access to reliable transportation. Occasional statewide travel may be required
- Upon conditional offer of employment, must be able to successfully pass a background check
- Regular attendance is necessary and essential to meeting the expectations of the job
- Ability to consistently demonstrate Lund’s values of collaboration, compassion, empathy, integrity, and respect
- Ability to understand and comply with operational standards, safety requirements, and employee policies
- Ability to actively support diversity, equity, and cultural competency efforts withing stated job responsibilities and work effectively across diverse cultures
- Ability to handle multiple tasks effectively in a busy environment with frequent interruptions
- Ability to deescalate and resolve sensitive situations respectfully
- Ability to demonstrate excellent judgement and operate with the utmost confidentiality
- Ability to maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, families, and other departments
- Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully both orally and in writing
- Proficiency in the use of applicable hardware and software as required
- We honor and celebrate the distinctive strengths and talents of our clients and staff
- Our work encompasses collaboration with a strong team of professionals and a strengths-based approach to providing services to families.
- Lund’s adoption program provides life-long services to families brought together through adoption
- Lund’s residential and community treatment programs are distinctive as our work focuses on both treatment and parenting
- Lund’s educators believe in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and non-stop learning
- Professional growth and ongoing training opportunities are available; Lund offers weekly supervision
- Lund values employee well-being and strives to be a welcoming and inclusive workplace; staff are encouraged to engage in staff led initiatives for wellness, employee recognition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Lund is a family-centered organization filled with supportive colleagues and offers work-life balance; some positions offer opportunities for hybrid schedules or schedule flexibility
- Lund offers competitive pay and paid training
- Lund offers a comprehensive and very generous benefit package including health, dental, life, disability, and retirement
- Employees earn extensive time off accrual in addition to 13 paid holidays, and annual wellness reimbursement.
- Lund does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information, ancestry, place of birth, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. EEO/AA
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