FACT Therapist; Leon

Job Details

Job Location:

Tallahassee, FL 32308
Position Type:
Full Time
Education Level: Graduate Degree
Salary Range: $26.00 Hourly
Job Category:
Other

Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties).

Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more.

Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team dedicated to delivering intensive community-based support to the severely and persistently mentally ill adult population. The purpose of the FACT Therapist is to be a part of the multidisciplinary treatment team designed to help individuals maintain stable functioning in the community as the primary provider of community based mental health treatment, rehabilitation, self‑management counseling, integrated dual disorder treatment.

FACT Therapist’s responsibilities are specifically tailored to each client based on symptoms, diagnosis, and specific treatment needs to include mental health/substance abuse treatment, education, as well as needed support and consultation to families using a variety of strategies and available therapeutic modalities. Services and service frequency should accurately reflect the individual needs, goals, and abilities of each recipient. The FACT Therapist will also provide cross training to other staff to enhance the knowledge and skills of the team in developing and utilizing supportive and therapeutic approaches with clients in the program.

Conducts comprehensive mental health assessments and ongoing assessments of persons served mental illness, symptoms, status, and response to treatment. Communicates client’s mental health status and history to the FACT team and helps the team to determine level of care based on client’s individual needs. Completes initial assessment for assigned clients in collaboration with the team within 60 days and updates required assessments in accordance with established guidelines.

Collect collateral information (i.e. family and other providers, with appropriate consent) to complete thorough assessments of client needs. Finalizes all documents in Avatar and turns in all assessments within 48 hours.

Schedules Individualized Treatment Team (ITT) meetings a month in advance of service plan expiring for assigned clients. Offers input and feedback (i.e. new issues, client response to treatment, client’s progress/lack of progress on service plan) to review clients’ progress and employment goals for the treatment plan with each client.

Assist clients on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community. Develop an understanding and identification of symptoms, lessen distress, improve role functioning, and increase participation in and satisfaction with treatment and rehabilitative services through the utilization of “here and now” strategies and practical problem solving. Assist clients in alleviating and managing symptoms and in promoting personal growth and development by establishing causality, constructing a personal history, and assisting clients in adapting to or coming to terms with having mental illness and its effects in daily life.

Provide EBP psychotherapeutic treatment. Core service includes:

• Engagement and mental…