Job Description
Job Description
Overview
Clinical Interns are 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.
We Embrace Our Diversity
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.
Experiences and Backgrounds We Look For
If this sounds like your calling, then we want to help you succeed, grow, and thrive at SummitStone.
- Location and hours: vary based on internship
- Dates: 2025 - 2026 Academic Year
What You’ll Do:
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.
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.
Other responsibilities may vary based on program
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.
Essay Requirement
We are seeking clinical mental health interns who are passionate about working in a community mental health setting. Our goal is to provide meaningful training in an environment that serves diverse and underserved populations, with an emphasis on equity, inclusion, and culturally responsive care. Each applicant is required to upload an essay (500-700 words) addressing one of the prompts below.
Essays will be evaluated for clinical insight, personal motivation, commitment to diversity, and readiness to work in a high-need environment.
Essay Prompt 1
- Mental health work can be emotionally demanding. How do you manage stress and prevent burnout? Please include a description of a time you faced a challenging situation in a clinical, work, or academic setting and how you handled it. Please also address what skills or competencies you hope to develop through this internship.
Essay Prompt 2
- What does cultural humility mean to you and how do you integrate it into your work? Please include a description of a time when you worked with or learned from someone with a different background, culture, or worldview and how it impacted your perspective. Please also address what steps you take (or plan to take) to ensure that your clinical practice is inclusive, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed.
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
Priority consideration will be given to complete applications received by Tuesday April 1st, 2025 @ 11:59pm.
Reach Out
SummitStone will provide persons with disabilities reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or selection process, please let your recruiter know.
Questions? Please email us at hiring@summitstonehealth.org.