FACT Substance Use Specialist; Masters) Leon

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.

Overview:

Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team dedicated to delivering intensive community-based support to the severely mentally ill adult population. The purpose of FACT Substance Abuse Specialist is to be a part of the multidisciplinary treatment team designed to be the primary provider to help individuals who have history and current issues with substance use and or other substance abuse diagnosis to help individuals maintain stable functioning in the community.

The FACT Substance Abuse Specialist is responsible for providing cross training to other staff on the team to enhance the knowledge and skills of the team to develop individualized approaches with clients. The FACT Substance Abuse Specialist is also responsible for providing crisis intervention as appropriate to include after hours on-call crisis response as scheduled with other FACT staff and intervene using reasonable judgment to maintain client safety and prevent hospitalization.

ESSENTIAL/CORE JOB-SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Assessment:
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’s need. Finalizes all documents in Avatar and turns in all assessments within 48 hours.

Individualized Treatment Team (ITT):
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.

Substance Abuse Specialist Services Delivery:
Be the primary provider to provide individual, group and family basis in the office and in community settings to help clients develop skills to manage symptoms to promote recovery and prevent relapse. Establish a trusting relationship with persons served so that they may more freely discuss substance abuse use and its effect on mental and physical health and daily functioning.

Core services include:

Engagement and substance abuse assessments.

Complete thorough assessments and assisting in the development treatment plan aimed at reduction and abstinence. Addresses the barriers and complex needs client with co-occurring disorders with an emphasis on available community-based substance abuse treatment programs.

Make appropriate referrals and consultations both within and outside the agency to include detox, residential, and self-help community treatment programs such as AA/NA.Coaching in stress management, coping strategies, and healthy relationships

Relapse prevention and replacement behaviors

Individual and group…