Expertise : Qualified Professional Supporting Adults with Mental Illness; ACT

Make a Difference in Someone’s Life!

At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.

You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find e, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.

Starting Pay: from $22.00/hour

A Qualified Professional (10A NCAC 27G .0104) must have one of the following combinations of education and experience:

• Bachelor degree (non Human Services) with 4 years full time experience with the population served required
• Associate or Bachelor degree (Human Services) with 2 years full time experience with the population served required
• Master degree (Human Services) with 1 year full time experience with the population served required

The primary responsibilities of the Assertive Community Treatment Team Professional III are to assist and support individuals who are served in the development of skills, behaviors, responsibilities, and supports needed to live, learn, work and be integrated into the community with the greatest possible degree of self-determination and independence.

• Provide skill-building to individuals who are served by the Assertive Community Treatment Team.
• Facilitate training of independent living skills, establish access to community services and agencies, assist individuals in establishing support networks in the community and assess individual needs on a daily basis.
• Coordinate services with the program, staff, inpatient facilities, and detoxification facilities and establish linkage to residential programs, self‑help programs and community resources.
• Review treatment progress and monitor and provide continuous consultation with other Assertive Community Treatment Team staff and community agencies to ensure the consistent therapeutic management of the individual’s needs.
• Act as liaison with the program after hours staff on a daily basis through exchange of participant information; briefly detailing the presenting problem and after hours plans for the individuals being served by the Assertive Community Treatment Team.
• Meet regularly with the other Assertive Community Treatment Team members to formulate and disseminate information and be available by telephone and/or pager.
• Complete an intake assessment including: medical history, general physical condition, alcohol and drug histories and current use, educational issues, family structure and relationships, vocational history and goals, legal history and issues, psychiatric history (including, onset, course, effect of illness, treatment history, medication history risk behaviors).
• Ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status which may put individual at risk.
• Document participant activities consistent with the service records manual. Write an event note that reflects participant activities, goals, interventions, and outcomes.
• Develop service plans and/or person‑centered plans as appropriate, and screen referrals in coordination with the other Assertive Community Treatment Team members.
• Meet regularly to review the total caseload, problem‑solve, develop plans, and determine daily duty assignments.
• Attend and actively participate in meetings and training as required. Maintain certification in all agency, state and federal training requirements.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and comply with all agency policies and procedures, as well as state and federal statutes and regulations related to specific program areas.
• Follow service definition…