Job Description

Washington, DC | On-Site | $75K - $85K | Washington Post Top Workplace (8x Winner)

Community of Hope is seeking an Integrated Emotional Wellness Clinician to join our cohesive medical team to provide brief assessments, screenings, crisis intervention and short-term counseling services. You'll focus on reducing barriers to mental health care by assessing emotional wellness needs, developing treatment plans, and facilitating interventions that promote emotional resilience, self-awareness, and overall well-being. This position is located at our Conway Health and Resource Center in SW, Washington, DC.

Our Approach and Values:

• We celebrate people’s strengths and acknowledge the impact of trauma on people’s lives.
• We embrace diversity, welcome all voices, and treat everyone with respect and compassion. 
• We lead and advocate for changes to make systems more equitable. 
• We strive for excellence and value integrity in all that we do. 

What You'll Do

• Support and closely coordinate mental health care with the patient’s primary care provider and, when appropriate, other treating mental health providers.
• Screen and assess patients for mental health and substance abuse disorders. Consults with supervisor on difficult to engage clients. 
• Identify and address related problems affecting health of client, such as housing, vocational rehabilitation, and social integration, and coordinates service delivery with other health center staff and community providers. 
• Provides crisis intervention per the clinician's licensing and COH guidelines, to include addressing suicidal/homicidal ideations. 
• Educates patients about common mental health and substance use issues and available treatment options.
• Monitors patients (in person or virtually) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications. 
• Provide brief interventions using evidence-based techniques such as Behavioral Activation, Motivational Interviewing, or other interventions appropriate for primary care settings. 
• Provides short-term, problem focused therapy for no more than 5 patients, unless approved by the supervisor and for up to 8 sessions per patient as deemed appropriate. Short-term therapy will focus on goal setting, change, and utilizing brief interventions.
• Completes a treatment plan for all short-term therapy clients by the 2nd scheduled session. Monitors patient progress through the course of treatment, reevaluating and adapting the treatment plan at least monthly from initial treatment plan date.
• Collaborates with PCPs and psychiatric nurse practitioner’s to support patients who are not improving as expected. This collaboration may include treatment plan changes including new medications or psychosocial treatments, or appropriate referrals for additional services.

Must-Haves:

• Graduate level license or above in social work, counseling, or related field. 
• LGSW/LICSW, LGPC/LPC, required or comparable license. Any providers who are licensed in Maryland who provide a copy of their license and MD CDS to Talent Management are also eligible for MD licensure reimbursement. 
• Strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
• Experience in screening for common mental health symptoms.
• Experience with assessment and treatment planning for common mental health and/or substance use disorder.
• Familiarity with brief, structured intervention techniques. 
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel between sites.
• Proof of vaccinations is required. COH will consider requests for reasonable accommodations for anyone who cannot be vaccinated for a religious or medical reason, subject to applicable law.

Nice-to-Haves:

• A minimum of two years of work experience in a clinical environment. 
• Experience in screening for substance use disorders. 
• Experience working with underserved population.

Why You'll Love Working Here!

At COH, we prioritize the following well-being and work-life balance-centered benefits:

• 8 x Washington Post 150 Top Workplaces winner.
• 8-hour workdays with paid lunch.
• 3 weeks vacation (additional week after two years), 2 weeks sick leave, + 11.5 paid holidays and one personal floating holiday on an annual basis.
• Annual performance-based raises, up to 5% of your annual pay.
• Tuition reimbursement & loan repayment (NHSC & DCHPLRP), Licensing reimbursement & CEU funding.
• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance + 403(b) retirement.
• Leadership development, internal promotions and career growth opportunities.
• A culture grounded in equity, compassion, and well-being.

Community of Hope is a mission-driven, innovative, rapidly growing nonprofit, and Federally Qualified Health Center. For over 45 years, we have provided health and housing services, perinatal care coordination, and community support services to make Washington, DC more equitable. Community of Hope also strongly emphasizes maternal and child health, with midwifery practice and the only free-standing birth center in DC. We are honored to be one of DC’s largest providers of housing and homelessness prevention services for families and individuals throughout DC. Through our Family Success Center, our WIC nutrition centers, and our various partnerships, we have reached hundreds and believe that everyone in DC deserves to be healthy, housed, and hopeful. With the help of our amazing staff, we have successfully provided: 50,000+ medical visits 6,300+ dental visits 17,000+ emotional wellness visits 1,384 families and 220 individuals with housing/homelessness prevention services Ready to bring hope and health to our DC community? Apply today! To request a reasonable accommodation to complete an employment application or for general questions about employment with Community of Hope, contact a Recruiting Coordinator. Email: hr@cohdc.org Phone: 202-407-7747. Community of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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