IHT Clinician

LATINO COUNSELING CENTER INC; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

LATINO COUNSELING CENTER, INC. seeks a Licensed/License-Eligible CBHI In-Home Therapy Clinician to deliver intensive youth and family-based services in home and community settings.

The role emphasizes clinical assessment, care coordination, treatment planning, and timely documentation. Reporting to the Clinical Supervisor and Program Director, the clinician will work across home, office, and telehealth settings with a focus on safety, family engagement, and cultural responsiveness.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a mental health field and licensure eligibility in MA.
• LICSW/LMHC or MA credential or license-eligible status.
• Minimum of three years of relevant clinical experience.
• Ability to use electronic health records and meet documentation deadlines.
• Willingness to travel to home/community settings and adhere to safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide intensive home- and community-based therapy to youth and families.
• Complete comprehensive clinical assessment and formulation with strengths/needs.
• Develop measurable, individualized treatment goals with the family and team.
• Assess suicide risk, self-harm, violence risk, abuse/neglect, and safety issues; follow mandated procedures.
• Coordinate with caregivers, schools, PCPs, psychiatry, and other supports.
• Participate in supervision, QA, audits, and trainings; maintain documentation quality.

Skills

Clinical documentation

Electronic health record

Communication

Travel to community settings

Education

Master’s degree in a related field

Massachusetts license-eligible status or MA credential

Job description

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Springfield, MA, US

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2 days ago Requisition ID: 1004

Salary Range: $60,000.00 To $75,000.00 Annually

LATINO COUNSELING CENTER, INC.LICENSED / LICENSE-ELIGIBLE CBHI IN-HOME THERAPY (IHT) CLINICIANDepartment

Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) – In-Home Therapy (IHT)

Employment Status

Full-Time / as stated in individual offer letter

Reports To

Clinical Supervisor / Clinical Director / Program Director, as assigned

Primary Service Setting

Home, community, office, telehealth when authorized, and other approved settings

On-Call

Participation in rotating on-call coverage through 8:00 p.m., as scheduled

1. Overview

Latino Counseling Center, Inc. (LCC) has served English- and Spanish-speaking communities since 2018. LCC is committed to providing culturally responsive, confidential, ethical, clinically appropriate, and family-centered behavioral-health services.

2. Position Summary

The CBHI In-Home Therapy (IHT) Clinician provides intensive, family-centered behavioral-health services to youth and families. The clinician is responsible for assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic intervention, risk and safety assessment, care coordination, family engagement, transition/discharge planning, and complete clinical documentation. The clinician must practice only within verified education, licensure status, supervision requirements, payer requirements, and assigned scope.

DOCUMENTATION IS A CORE JOB FUNCTION, NOT AN OPTIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE TASK.Services that are not timely, accurate, clinically supported, authorized when required, and properly documented may create client-safety, continuity-of-care, payer, audit, and billing risk. The clinician is responsible for completing documentation within the timelines below or any shorter deadline required by a payer, contract, regulation, or written LCC policy.

3. Essential Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide intensive home- and community-based therapy to youth and families using clinically appropriate and culturally responsive interventions.
• Complete comprehensive clinical assessment and formulation; identify strengths, needs, risks, functional impairment, family/system factors, and medical necessity as applicable.
• Develop measurable, individualized treatment goals and interventions with the youth/family and involved team members.
• Assess suicide risk, self-harm, violence risk, abuse/neglect, exploitation, substance-use concerns, and other safety issues; follow mandated-reporting and crisis-escalation procedures.
• Develop, review, and update safety/crisis plans when clinically indicated and ensure the family understands how to use them.
• Coordinate with caregivers, schools, PCPs, psychiatry, outpatient providers, state agencies, care coordinators, crisis services, and other authorized supports.
• Participate in supervision, case consultation, utilization review, QA, audits, training, staff meetings, corrective-action activities, and re-audits as assigned.
• Maintain professional boundaries, informed consent, confidentiality, HIPAA compliance, and minimum-necessary use of PHI.
• Provide clinically appropriate transition/discharge planning and timely handoff of open safety, authorization, treatment, and follow-up needs.
• Maintain required licensure/eligibility, credentials, trainings, CANS certification when applicable, and payer/program requirements.

4. Mandatory Documentation Timelines

The following are LCC job-performance expectations for this position unless a controlling payer/program requirement requires an earlier deadline. The clinician must know and follow the shortest applicable deadline.

Document / Task

LCC Deadline

Progress / Service Note

Within 24 hours of the service; same day whenever feasible

Accurate date, start/end or duration as required, location/modality, participants, intervention, response, progress toward goals, risk/safety, plan/next step, and required signature/credentials.

Notify supervisor before deadline when a documented operational or clinical barrier prevents completion.

Complete and submit within 21 calendar days of intake/admission, or earlier if payer/program rules require

Assessment must support clinical formulation, diagnosis when within scope, functional needs, medical necessity, risk, strengths, family/system context, and treatment recommendations.

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5. Documentation Quality Standards

• Document contemporaneously and truthfully. Never backdate, fabricate, copy forward inaccurate information, or alter a record solely to make a service billable.
• Every billed service must be supported by documentation that matches the actual service, duration/units, rendering provider, participants, location/modality, intervention, and authorization requirements.
• Documentation must demonstrate the clinical purpose of the service and its relationship to the assessment and treatment plan.
• If an error is discovered after signing, use the approved amendment/addendum/correction process. Never delete or conceal the original record when the system or policy requires preservation.
• Late entries must be identified as late entries and completed according to LCC policy; repeated late documentation may result in performance management.
• Clinicians are responsible for reviewing their own documentation queues, due-date trackers, authorizations, treatment-plan dates, CANS dates, signatures, and assigned corrective actions.
• No clinician may ask another person to sign, attest, or document work the other person did not perform or supervise as required.

6. Productivity and 40-Hour Workweek Expectations

For full-time clinicians, the workweek includes direct/billable clinical services plus the administrative and clinical-support functions necessary to perform the job, including documentation, supervision, meetings, care coordination, training, authorization support, travel where applicable, QA, and required follow-up. The employee’s individual offer letter/productivity agreement controls the specific billable-hour target and any approved over-productivity arrangement.

PRODUCTIVITY NEVER OVERRIDES MEDICAL NECESSITY, CLIENT SAFETY, AUTHORIZATION, DOCUMENTATION QUALITY, OR BILLING INTEGRITY.

7. Supervision, QA and Audit Accountability

• Attend all required individual and group supervision and come prepared to discuss clinical risk, treatment progress, documentation, authorizations, and barriers.
• Respond to QA/audit corrections by the assigned deadline and provide evidence of completion when requested.
• Participate in competency remediation, retraining, corrective action, or re-audit when performance or compliance concerns are identified.
• Immediately report suspected duplicate billing, unsupported time/units, authorization problems, documentation integrity concerns, privacy incidents, or other compliance concerns through LCC channels.
• Good‑faith reporting is expected. Clinicians must not retaliate against or discourage another person from reporting a safety, quality, privacy, billing, or compliance concern.

8. Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Human Services, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, or a related field meeting applicable program/payer requirements.
• LICSW, LMHC, other applicable Massachusetts credential, or documented license-eligible status consistent with the assigned role.
• Valid Massachusetts license when the assigned functions require independent licensure, or active progress on the approved licensure pathway when hired as license-eligible.
• Minimum of three (3) years of relevant clinical experience, unless LCC approves another qualification structure consistent with program/payer requirements.
• Ability to use an electronic health record, meet documentation deadlines, communicate professionally, travel to community/home settings as required, and respond appropriately to clinical risk.

9. On-Call Responsibilities

Participate in rotating on-call coverage through 8:00 p.m. as scheduled. The clinician must follow LCC escalation procedures, document clinically relevant contacts, and communicate urgent safety or continuity-of-care issues to the appropriate supervisor/crisis resource.

10. Performance Accountability

Failure to meet documentation, supervision, quality, safety, productivity, attendance, credentialing, authorization-support, or compliance expectations may result in coaching, retraining, increased supervision, corrective action, performance improvement planning, restriction of duties, or other action consistent with LCC policy and applicable law. A single deadline issue will be evaluated in context; repeated, avoidable, or unreported deficiencies may be treated as a performance concern.

11. Employee Acknowledgment

I acknowledge that I have reviewed this job description and understand that timely and accurate clinical documentation is an essential function of the IHT Clinician position. I understand that I am responsible for monitoring my assigned clinical and documentation deadlines and for escalating barriers before a deadline is missed whenever reasonably possible.

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