Milieu Clinician

**Mount Prospect Academy** **Join Us in Empowering Youths and Making a Difference.** **Milieu Mental Health Clinician Reports to: Clinical Director** **Salary:** **Commensurate with experience** **Location: Campton, NH** We are seeking a dedicated **Mental Health Clinician** to join our compassionate team, where you will have the opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of young people. In this vital role, you will provide expert therapeutic support, guidance, and care to adolescents navigating a range of emotional, psychological, and behavioral challenges. Your commitment to fostering a safe and nurturing environment will empower our youth to develop resilience, self-understanding, and positive coping strategies, enabling them to thrive. Join us in our mission to cultivate hope and promote mental wellness for the next generation. **Shared Employee Affordable Housing Available** **Company Background** Welcome to Mount Prospect Academy (MPA), a rapidly growing nonprofit agency founded in 2003, with the goal of helping struggling adolescents find a “zest for life" and succeed in the “business of life.” MPA has evolved to offer a variety of mental health support services to a diverse population of “hard to treat” and “difficult to place” adolescents. Our targeted services include home and community-based treatment, residential treatment programs, group homes, and special education schools. MPA is known for its ability to achieve successful outcomes with difficult-to-serve individuals throughout New England. [Click here to watch a short video about who we are and what we do!](https://vimeo.com/672777449) **Mission:** MPA’s mission is to provide a caring, safe therapeutic environment where students have the opportunity to grow and acquire the skills they need to reach their educational and social potential. We aim to develop trusting relationships with students and facilitate experiences that promote their ability to self-regulate; manage thoughts and feelings; and develop feelings of safety, confidence, and competency. **Summary:** The Milieu Clinician (MC) role is to provide culturally sensitive, therapeutic service to the students within their caseload. Milieu Clinicians use formal counseling and therapy techniques in otherwise less conventional treatment settings. Counseling is less commonly provided within the office setting but rather in the Milieu and during club and activity programming. MC's help establish lifelong connections, providing clinical support for youths and their families and assist in overcoming obstacles, identifying strengths and developing supports to ensure the youth overcome their challenges and achieve success. MC' s use a wide variety of approaches and are commonly supporting student programming while modeling socially acceptable behaviors. This will provide an excellent learning experience for MC's, as they are expected to develop comprehensive assessment plans with the residents and then become familiar with presenting these to administration, faculty, referral sources, etc. In addition, MC’s are will build a positive therapeutic rapport with their assigned students while working to enhance accountability through utilization of restorative justice planning. MC's are the overarching facilitator of youth treatment and relay the goals and objectives within the treatment plan to the respective treatment team members. The Milieu Clinician provides training's regarding effective treatment modalities to the Milieu faculty members that aids in driving the treatment of the student. The MC's provides documentation via soap notes in the Kaleidacare system for individual sessions, group counseling notes for situations where there is more than one student as well as completes assigned documentation tasks as outlined below. The MC meets with the respective treatment team members to assist in reaching the ultimate permanency plan goal. Common MC responsibilities include development and implementation of t…