CBHC Urgent Care Clinician - Fee for Service

We’re looking for empathetic individuals dedicated to providing quality support and care to others. With your creative problem-solving skills and Eliot's cutting edge Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) programs, we can overcome traditional barriers in the behavioral health system. Imagine having access to trauma-informed behavioral health services in real time? Or providing coordinated care continuum? Join Eliot and get to work alongside our talented and dedicated staff specializing in housing navigation, recovery coaching, case management,peer supports and other specialized stabilization services.

Currently, we are seeking fee for service clinicians to fill in for vacations, leaves or vacancies in the Urgent Care Schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct diagnostic evaluations, stabilization interventions, and stabilization planning for clients and families experiencing an acute and urgent need for behavioral healthcare.
• Provide urgent care services including crisis planning, stabilization, and short term treatment to support a client in the stabilization process.
• Provide side by side interventions to individuals/families that focus on problem solving, skills training, modeling behavior, optimism and encouragement.
• Provide interventions in the office, virtually, in the community and in client’s residences based on client preference, client need, and at the clinical direction of the urgent care team.
• Provide all services and supports in a strengths-based, solution-focused, client-centered, recovery-oriented approach manner
• Provide all services in the community, at residences, at an Eliot location, virtually or at a community-based location.
• Complete evaluation processes when clinically appropriate to assess for safety, determine services needed, determine level of intervention including community planning, community based services, immediate interventions, and the need for hospitalization.  
• Develop short term treatment plans to support a client/youth to remain in the community rather than seeking emergency room services and/or hospitalization.
• Develop treatment plans that include follow up supports to a client and/or family that focus on stabilization, usage of other Eliot triage/CBHC staff, and utilize short term clinical supports.
• Provide direct short term, solution focused clinical intervention and treatment for clients and families as indicated for crisis management and resolution over the course of several days until longer term services are in place and/or acuity has subsided. 
• As part of evaluations, treatment planning, and interventions, utilize evidence-based practices that focus on stabilization, engagement in treatment, motivational interviewing, and connecting to services within the community.  
• Complete NOMs assessment as appropriate and assigned.
• Develop safety plans and crisis plans that are seeped in evidence based practices, focus on stabilization, and maintaining personal safety and the safety of others.

Qualifications:

• Requires a Master’s degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Rehab Counseling, related field or is licensed at the independent level in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; or a Doctorate in Psychology from an accredited university/college and licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Strong diagnostic skills, competence in crisis intervention, ability to develop short term interventions to support clients/families, and engagement strategies.
• Must be able to quickly establish rapport with wide range of clinical presentations.
• Knowledge of the vast array of community resources and how to access them.   
•  Must be proficient in English and possess and convey effective verbal and written communication skills with clients, staff and service providers.
• Ability to function as a member of a team.  
• Demonstrate sound judgment and effective, solution focused, problem solving skills. Ability to develop and maintain professional working relationships with clients, co-workers and supervisor.  

Schedule: Varied

Hourly rate: $40/ hour 

6% increase ($42.40/ hour) if bilingual in needed language. 

Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.

Salary : $40 - $42