Behavioral Health Clinician

Purpose

Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services are focused on improving or ameliorating the significant functional impairments and severe symptomatology experienced by youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Clinical and rehabilitative interventions are also focused on enhancing family functioning to foster health, wellbeing, stability and re‑integration for youth who are returning home after residential treatment or in‑patient hospitalization.

The Youth ACT Team is a multi‑disciplinary team that works together to provide family‑driven, youth‑guided and developmentally appropriate services to comprehensively address the needs of youth within the family, school, medical, behavioral, psychosocial and community domains.

The Youth ACT Team Licensed Behavioral Health Clinician works as part of a multi‑disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children, ages 10 to 21, who have significant behavioral health needs and who are at risk of entering, or returning home from, high‑end services such as inpatient settings or residential services. The role involves providing highly individualized services focused on clinical treatment, family psychoeducation and skills development.

The Behavioral Health Clinician provides services to youth and families in their homes and communities and collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts. The role will require some evening availability and rotating on‑call coverage.

• Provide treatment to the child and their family/caregivers to address the clinical needs of the child and the complex needs of the family unit.
• Engage child/youth and family as active partners in developing, reviewing, and modifying a course of care that supports the child/youth’s progress towards identified goals related to restoring, building or enhancing functionality as well as the development of a relapse prevention plan where appropriate.
• Engage the child/youth and family in defining their desired goals and the action steps by which to achieve them.
• Assess risk, develop safety plans and provide crisis intervention services.
• Participate in both the development and implementation of a person‑centered care plan that includes formal and informal supports that increase opportunities for improved quality of life. Focus is on creating meaningful and productive daily activities in the community.
• Actively participate and function as part of a multi‑disciplinary team providing services, as a unit, to youth and families.
• Monitor appropriate discharge and ongoing care planning at pre‑ and post‑transition for individuals transitioning to community.
• Establish collaborative working relationships and act as a liaison with community providers, Managed Care Plans, schools, and medical providers.
• Complete casework documentation and collect and report data, as required, while adhering to productivity standards.
• Foster relationships with community providers to ensure that recipients receive appropriate services as they transition back into the community and to share or collect collateral information.
• Navigate appointments by accompanying to appointments—including but not limited to travel training, re‑engagement in community care, and the ability to identify needs and barriers to services as well as making appropriate referrals.
• Monitor, evaluate and record participant progress with respect to care plan goals.
• Provide on‑call after‑hour crisis intervention services when needed to participants and their support network, including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization services.
• Attend and participate in team meetings and supervisory sessions.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of mental illness, serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders.
• Delivers services that are trauma‑informed and attend to cultural considerations and incorporate an anti‑oppressive lens.
• Proactive in terms of therapeutic interventions, continuous monitoring and engagement efforts.
• Commitment to building and strengthening therapeutic and family…