Referral Specialist - Yale Child Study Center
Faculty Position Opening
Yale Child Study Center
Yale Child Study Center Clinical Services has an opening for a LCSW, LPC, or LMFT, to serve as a Referral Specialist for our clinical practice. Successful candidates will be appointed as Clinical Instructors at Yale School of Medicine. This faculty role supports the Associate Director of Youth Services and Director of Clinical Operations with the management of referrals for treatment and assessment coming into the Child Study Center’s New Haven and Westport offices. This role reports directly to the Associate Director of Youth Services.
Job requirements: This is a fully in-person full time position and requires one evening until 7 pm per week
Primary responsibilities will include providing the following services:
- Diagnostic evaluation of children and families from young children through adolescence.
- Engagement with clients to explain the referral process, gather essential information, and address questions they may have
- Risk management, including providing onsite supervisory coverage, urgent support for safety assessments and disposition planning
- Internal and external referral management with associated follow-up
- Participation in networking events, including at internal and external community events during or after hours
- Documentation and reporting, including timely completion of all assessments, maintaining accurate and up-to-date records of all referrals in Epic, updating information on all referral contacts, and entering data and preparing reports regarding clinical capacity
Connecticut licensed or license-eligible therapists with the following skills or experience are encouraged to apply:
- Experience conducting evaluation and assessment with demonstrated strong diagnostic skills
- Coursework in child development and developmental psychopathology
- Experience with risk management, safety assessments, and disposition planning
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly detail oriented and organized, proven ability to multitask and maintain flexibility
- Experience with Epic and Excel preferred
- Bilingual clinicians able to provide referral support and evaluation in Spanish
- Candidates from diverse backgrounds
- Experience providing culturally and racially responsive care
The mission of the Yale Child Study Center is to improve the mental health of children and families, advance understanding of their psychological and developmental needs, as well as treat and prevent childhood mental illness through the integration of research, clinical practice, and professional training. The Child Study Center is committed to recruiting, supporting and encouraging promising clinicians, researchers, and leaders of diverse interests and backgrounds, in the service of its clinical, research, training, policy, and prevention agendas.
Applicants should complete an application and upload a resume specifying the position of interest.
Yale University provides a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including the Yale Home Buyers program, a scholarship program for dependents at any college, and an automatic 5% contribution to your retirement plan plus a 5% match to your contributions to your Yale retirement account. Yale is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness site. We value Spanish language skills as an important way to meet the needs of the community we serve. A Spanish-speaking clinician who becomes certified as a bilingual health provider and provides patient care in Spanish receives a salary supplement. As an academic medical center, training opportunities and continuing education credits are available through our education offerings.
Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.