Wellness Clinician-Not Licensed

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Bridgeway values and promotes quality clinical and administrative practices to foster the best outcomes for persons who come to us for behavioral healthcare. We offer a work environment that supports teamwork, creativity, innovation, professional growth and dedication to the work. At Bridgeway, we never stop growing and innovating our vision of behavioral healthcare for the future.

As a Wellness Clinician-Not Licensed, you will join an evidence-based program and a dynamic team for the opportunity to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills and accomplish your dream of helping people to make progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging and always rewarding by engaging with persons we serve and co-workers as we all learn, grow, and thrive.

Department: PACT 11/PACT 12/PACT 13

Salary: $55,000-$60,000

Sign-on Bonus: $5k

Location: West Orange, NJ

Work hours: Sunday-Thursday 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, Tuesday-Saturday 8:00am-4:30pm

Full Time: 40 hours’ weekly

The master’s level Wellness Clinician-Not Licensed provides clinical supervision to the team in conjunction with the Team Leader and other licensed professionals such as the psychiatrist. Provides clinical support for the team, providing supervision, skill assessment, and teaching. Utilizes best practices and strategies. In collaboration with team leader, ensures that clinical interventions are effective, stage-based and tied directly to the recovery plans of persons receiving services.

As part of a multi-disciplinary, core services team, provides assessment and direct service for people with seriously and persistently mentally illness enrolled in the PACT Program. [Per NJ PACT regulations, clinical supervision may be provided by a master's level mental health professional. Often, supervision is provided to the team by the PACT Team Leader (licensed or unlicensed) and wellness clinician (licensed or unlicensed) in conjunction with the Psychiatrist and Director].

• Clinical supervision and direction in conjunction with the team leader and the teams’ licensed staff members to the PACT team, emphasizing a peer clinical supervision approach, and individual supervision on a monthly basis.
• Provides monthly supervision for direct reports and seeks out monthly supervision from own supervisor.
• Co-facilitation of clinical meetings
• Ensure clinical interventions are evidence-based, stage-based, and lead to recovery goal attainment
• Staff development activities, with help from the team, including orientation of new staff, in-service training, individual supervision and staff performance appraisal
• Within the team, development of clinical assessment, comprehensive assessment and a Recovery Plan, often focusing on clinical needs of the person receiving services. Ensures documentation is completed on time and with quality in adherence to DMHAS/Medicaid standards.
• Mental health education, community living skill training and supportive counseling in the home and other natural environments to persons served and significant others, often focusing on substance abuse education needs of the consumer
• Assessing service recipients stated concerns, mental illness symptoms, and behavior in response to medication and monitors for medication side-effects during the provision of observed self-administration and during ongoing face-to-face contacts
• Medication education to both individuals and family/significant others (with service recipient consent).
• Coordination of services with other…