Expanded Community Services Clinician- Behavioral Health

Overview

The Expanded Community Services (ECS) program is a community-based team that works with clients placed in Adult Family Homes (AFHs) throughout the community.

Clients have both behavioral and medical issues with a history of lost placements. Clinicians are assigned to a region so that they are able to devote their time to working with clients and the AFH staff in a particular area. Clinicians on this team are in the community much of the time, setting their own daily schedules and agendas.

In addition to working with individual clients there are also many opportunities to collaborate with facility staff, other providers, programs, systems and collaterals. Each ECS client has a state social worker who works in tandem with us.

This program has an excellent success rate with the overall goal of helping our clients be successful in their placements and within their communities.

We do this by connecting with our clients and their staff, helping to develop useful plans and tools that the client and staff can utilize to work together and promote a healthy, stable environment.

Benefits of working on the ECS team (according to current ECS clinicians):

• Having a role as a consultant and expert with the opportunity to educate key members involved with client care.
• Developing relationships with not only clients but also with the staff in the home to provide support that is appreciated and valued.
• Setting their own daily schedule with freedom to determine priorities on a given day.
• Not being stuck in an office-being out in the field, working with a variety of people and needs.
• Being on a close-knit team that supports a culture of self-care.
• Networking opportunities-exposure to other systems across our area, meeting new people in various roles.
• Having the freedom to utilize individual strengths and abilities. Staff can be very creative in terms of working with clients and caregivers; bringing their own approaches, ideas and talents. Plenty of opportunities to think outside the box.

Location: Community based position traveling throughout North Seattle and Snohomish County.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Accepting Applications until March 4th, 2026

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

• Provides, direct services and/or internal and external organization referrals for clients.

• Develops treatment plans and maintains accurate and timely clinical records according to organization policy.
• Prepares necessary reports, summaries and progress notes, and incorporates into clinical records.
• Performs consultations and liaison duties with other agencies and resources on behalf of the client.
• Assists client to remain stable in the community, thereby reducing the use of hospitals or involuntary treatment services.
• Provides consultation and behavioral support for ECS residential providers.

• Monitors medication regimes and treatment compliance.
• Monitors utilization of services and the success of outcome measures.
• Participates in team member meetings, consultations, case presentations and in-service training.
• Participates in ongoing program development and assessment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

KEY WORK RELATIONSHIPS

Establishes and maintains positive, ethical, and professional working relationships with clinical team members, clients, and outside organizations. Relates to a wide variety of people including members of ethnic and sexual minority populations, and is respectful of individual and cultural differences.

KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Understands the principles of individual therapy, group therapy and/or case management approach to providing services.
• Possesses strong working knowledge of the mental and/or behavioral health and support resources of King County, and is familiar with state and local health delivery systems, including knowledge of various funding principles and clinical services mandates.
• Understands recovery concepts in behavioral health; synthesizes and applies, as appropriate to their work at Sound.
• Ability to learn new tasks and skills quickly, and to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, while simultaneously managing crises.

• Able to demonstrate the capacity to appreciate and work well with the…