Behavioral Health Clinician – Assertive Community Treatment; ACT – Fulton​/Dekalb

Overview

Job Title:

Behavioral Health Clinician
Job Code: HCP
051/Social Worker, Licensed 1

Shift: Full-Time (40 hours per week)

Hours:

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Base

Location:

Dekalb/Fulton (Based on Area of Assignment)
Division/Department/Program:
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program

• Provides professional therapeutic services to persons with mental illness and/or addictive disease.
• Provides service coordination for an assigned group of clients; arranges appointment schedule at optimal intervals to maximize use of work time.
• Conducts face-to-face comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history to identify problems and service needs.
• Writes individual service plans that meet Medicaid, insurer, CARF, and other required standards for diagnoses, content, justifications for treatment, evidence of consumer input, and treatment time frames.
• Writes service plans that are clear, concise, complete, grammatically correct, timely, and properly coded.
• Secures or provides necessary signatures required to secure authorization for services.
• Follows all Medicaid, state, insurer, and other regulations related to the credentials required to provide authorized services.
• Provides individual, family, or group therapeutic counseling and/or educational and skill development sessions as indicated in the service plan.
• Monitors consumer progress and compliance with the service plan.
• Writes timely progress notes that relate directly to the treatment outcomes described in the service plan.
• Assembles, analyzes, and interprets new/updated information about the consumer to reassess treatment needs; identifies unmet needs, reviews available resources, and modifies the treatment plan as indicated.
• Requests treatment authorizations and re-authorizations within required time frames.
• Provides and bills only those consumer services that are authorized in the service plan.
• Establishes, documents, and implements treatment plans; attends daily organizational staff meetings and treatment planning meetings.
• Clinical skills and experience to assess, plan, develop, coordinate and provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to program clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses under clinical supervision of the Team Lead.
• Participates in providing treatment and dual diagnosis services.
• Crisis intervention provides crisis intervention services to existing consumers as needed; provides on-call, after-hours services on an as needed basis.
• May serve as a case manager to facilitate and ensure communication, linkage, and continuity of care between consumers, physicians, other organizational components, community resources and service providers.
• Establishes linkages and coordination of services with community agencies; develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with community service providers.
• Informs consumers and families of the availability of community advocacy and support groups.
• Other related duties as assigned.

• Master’s degree in social work and counseling from an accredited college or university and eligibility to be licensed and two (2) years of supervised experience in the area of assignment or two years of experience at the lower-level Social Worker, Licensed 1 (HCP
  050) or position equivalent (
  
  Note:
  
  Licensed as an LAPC, LPC, LMSW, LCSW, LAMFT, or LMFT (associate or full licensed required)).

• Experience working with the Severe and Persistently Mentally Ill population, ACT teams, or individual identified as being frequent users of ERs, Psychiatric Hospitals, Crisis Stabilization Units, and the criminal justice system.
• At least 1 year of experience working with SPMI (Severe Persistent Mental Illness).
• Case management experience.
• Experience working in a highly stressed, fast‑paced environment with a very emotionally and physically changing population.
• Experience working in multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Ability to multi‑task and manage time.
• Full licensure and ability to perform an involuntary hospitalization (if not fully licensed but be eligible within 3 months of hire).
• Experience with crisis response setting.

• Must be a fully licensed clinician…