Team Clinician; LCSW​/LICSW​/LMHC; Behavioral Health Services

We are seeking a PACT Team Clinician to provide rehabilitation services to persons served with severe and persistent mental illness. The PACT Team Clinician will work under the clinical supervision of the Team Leader and the Psychiatrist to assess, plan, develop, coordinate, and provide comprehensive treatment. This member of the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) multidisciplinary team will lead experience and training in one of the mental health professions (e.g., nursing, social work, rehabilitation counseling, or psychology)

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing case management for an assigned group of persons served, including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team
• Conducting comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health
• Providing ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision, and environmental adaptations to assist persons served with activities of daily living.

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Job Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential job duties/responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the information listed below:

• Provide case management for an assigned group of persons served, including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall Individual Action Plan (IAP) goals and plans in conjunction with the ITT; provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the IAP as persons served needs change;

educate and support persons served families, and advocate for persons served rights and preferences.

• Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g., self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.

• Act as liaison and consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.

• Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime and weekend hours.

• Document persons served progress to maintain a permanent record of persons served activity according to established methods and procedures.

• Provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, with some interventions directed or performed by staff with specialty training and skills (e.g., vocational specialists).

• Perform other related duties, as required.

Psychiatric Treatment and Dual Diagnosis Substance Abuse Services

• Provide ongoing assessment of persons served mental illness symptoms and persons served response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in IAP to ensure immediate and

appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put persons served at risk.

• Provide symptom education to enable persons served to identify their mental illness symptoms.

• Provide direct clinical services, including individual support therapy and psychotherapy to persons served on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting persons served to cope with internal external stresses.

• Provide individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings in a stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational, considers interactions of mental illness and substance abuse, and has persons served-determined goals.

• Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify persons served and establish linkage to outpatient treatment, self-help programs, outpatient services, and residential facilities.

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