Student Workforce Development Scholarship Internship - Fall 2024

A Student Workforce Development Scholarship Internship is needed to help us in our endeavor to build the healthiest community in the nation ... one person at a time.

The Mission:
At SummitStone Health Partners, we strive to foster trust, empower recovery, and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community.

We need your help to make this vision a reality.

We are building a team who believes in providing crucial services at crucial times, helping the people in our community at their most vulnerable - particularly those who are often overlooked and underserved.

Come As You Are:

A core value here at SummitStone.

We want you to be your authentic self while at work, so we welcome and actively seek team members of different backgrounds, identities and experiences. SummitStone is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, honoring each individual's whole-self by embracing differences in race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic status, language and the inherent intersections of many different identities. We invite everyone to share our journey and are proudly an equal opportunity employer.

If this sounds like your calling, then we want to help you succeed, grow, and thrive at SummitStone.

• Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
• Status: Internship
• Fall 2024

Intern Position Summary:

Interns donate their time and provide services to SummitStone for the specific purpose of gaining experience and knowledge in accordance with the requirements of a higher education institution. Interns are seeking to successfully complete their field placement from an undergraduate or graduate behavioral health program in a co-occurring clinical setting offered through SummitStone Health Partners. Interns may provide on-going clinical assessment, diagnosis, individual, family, and group therapy, crisis intervention, and case management services for both child and adult clients with mild to severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or disabilities. Participate in weekly supervision, which consists of a minimum of 1 hour per week. Develop, document, and monitor treatment plans. Monitor and document treatment services, interactions, and progress. Ensure that documentation and maintenance of client charts meet agency, state, federal, etc. audit standards. Collaborate with internal (i.e. medical, psychiatric, clinical, case management, peers, etc.) and external (i.e. referral agencies, family, friends, etc.) treatment team members and/or supports around a client's treatment plan goals, treatment, and treatment progress. Coordinate with collaterals and/or partner agencies during and after a client's treatment to ensure sustainable support and step-down services are in place.

Workforce Development Scholarship Position Summary:

A Workforce Development Scholarship Participant is an individual who may be awarded a scholarship as they provide services for SummitStone for the specific purpose of gaining experience and knowledge in accordance with requirements of a higher education institution. Diverse, marginalized, or systematically excluded backgrounds preferred. In addition to meeting intern job description duties, Workforce Development Scholarship Participants must have a passion for understanding of culture and how it is integral to the lives and experiences of each client; and honoring the diversity that reflects our community through the delivery of culturally informed, equitable, diverse, and inclusive practices. The Workforce Development Scholarship Participant agrees to strengthen and enhance their learning through weekly supervision and training offered through SummitStone, which consists of a minimum of 1 hour of supervision and 1 hour of training per week. The Workforce Scholarship Participant agrees to further enhance the workforce development program through various methods of evaluation including but not limited to pre/post field placement surveys. The Workforce Development Scholarship Participant will complete a competitive application process, which includes but is not limited to the completion of essay questions in addition to interview, as well as timely submission of all required paperwork deadlines set forth by SummitStone Health Partners and institute for higher learning.

*Please note on your resume which position you are interested in. Candidates interested in the Workforce Development Scholarship Position will be contacted with additional essay questions to complete the application process.

Workforce Development Scholarship Applicants:

Priority will be given to workforce development scholarship applicants with diverse, marginalized, or systematically excluded backgrounds and/or abilities including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, first generation student, foster youth, veteran, bilingual speaker and/or differently abled.

Essential Duties:

• Provide direct clinical services to clients as assigned by Administrative/Clinical Supervisor via telephone, video, or face-to-face.
• On-going assessment and treatment of client mental health and substance use disorder symptoms in a variety of situations.
• Facilitate a wide variety of individual, family, and group therapy, crisis, and case management services with the purpose of psychoeducation and ameliorating mental health and/or substance use disorder symptoms and meeting client treatment plan goals. Further, prevent deterioration, decompensation, and/or hospitalization.
• Implement a wide variety of evidence-based treatment interventions that seek to improve client functioning and well-being. Further, treatment interventions simultaneously focus on sustainability, and client applying learned skills to problem solving and negotiating tasks of everyday living.
• Conduct crisis interventions via telephone, video, and/or face-to-face, intervene, de-escalate, assess suicidal/homicidal risk, and implement needed holds, treatment services, and/or referrals to additional treatment resources.
• Provide case management services as needed to assist client in meeting their treatment plan goals as stated in their treatment plans, and/or make referrals to supportive services that can do so when necessary (i.e. medical, vocational, educational, financial, housing, transportation, etc.).
• Formulate, document, and monitor client treatment plans and client treatment progress.
• Document all treatment services (i.e. individual, family, group, etc.), interactions (i.e. face-to-face, phone, fax, email, etc.), and progress.
• All clinical documentation should follow proper protocol as set forth by Quality Improvement, third party payor's requirements, and agency, state, federal etc. auditing and/or reporting parties.
• Follow agency and program productivity standards as outlined by SummitStone Health Partners.
• Advocate and or support clients in advocating for themselves in many different venues (i.e. education, employment, housing, etc.).
• Collaborate with internal and external treatment team members and/or supports.
• Maintain close and cooperative relationships with internal and external treatment team members, supports, collaterals, and/or community partners, with the purpose of coordinating collective efforts to assist clients in meeting their treatment goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Administrative/Clinical Supervisor.

Essential Duties Depending on Program and Credentials

Job Requirements:

• Ability to provide on-going clinical assessment, diagnosis, individual, family, and group therapy, crisis intervention, and case management services for both our child and adult clients with mild to severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or disabilities.
• Ability to provide treatment or case management in routine crisis situations.
• Able to visually assess mental health and/or substance use disorder symptoms such as blunt affect, psychomotor retardation, racing speech, tangential speech, slurred speech, etc.
• Knowledge of psychopathology, substance use disorder treatment and methods of therapy/treatment.
• Strong/effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret related professional periodicals, journals, technical procedures and/or government regulations.
• Capable of applying principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Time management and prioritization skills.

Minimum qualifications:

• Seeking a minimum of one semester of field placement from an undergraduate and/or graduate social work or psychology program in a co-occurring clinical setting offered through SummitStone Health Partners.
• Relevant experience or demonstrated knowledge in the mental health and/or substance use disorder field.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to plan and implement assessment, diagnosis, variety of direct clinical services, and variety of treatment interventions with clients.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to plan, monitor, and document client treatment plans and progress in conjunction with state and federal auditing and reporting guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to collaborate and coordinate mental health and substance use disorder treatment plans and interventions with other providers and agencies.

Required Education & Licensure:

• Enrolled in Bachelors (BS) or (BA) Degree in counseling, psychology, social work or related field from accredited behavioral health college or university.
• Enrolled in Masters (MS) or (MA) Degree in counseling, psychology, social work or related field from accredited behavioral health college or university.
• Valid driver's license with clean driving record.

Start With Yes

At SummitStone, we show up not only for our clients, but for our staff as well. You will be joining a team of committed professionals who believe in the power of starting with "yes" - where an unparalleled level of teamwork and support can solve any challenge.

We believe that people can and do recover, but we also know that they can't always do it on their own. That's where you come in. If you have any or all of these qualities, we want you to consider us for your next career move:

• You believe in being a voice for behavioral health in Northern Colorado
• You embrace equity for your clients, teammates, and partners
• Collaboration and creativity are crucial to helping you solve problems
• You show up as your genuine self to help guide others through their toughest times
• Through continuous curiosity, exploration, and reflection, you're eager to adapt and learn