.50 OnTrack Hamilton Master's Clinician

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The OnTrack Hamilton Master's Clinician

Duties:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, customer and vendors.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.
• Conducts individual, family, and group counseling
• Is responsible for maintaining a designated amount of direct service time with clients and a designated amount of contacts for the assigned caseload.
• Participates in the initial individual program planning process with all service providers (i.e., Outreach/Education specialist, SEES, and medical staff) and provides ongoing information regarding client progress to the service providers.
• Completes an individual treatment plan with each client within 30 days of enrollment.
• Writes progress notes after each service contact with a client in accordance with the Center's procedure on Time Frames for Clinical Records and Related Documentation.
• Maintains documentation of a six-month service update in the clinical record.
• Participates in the development of a crisis/safety plan for priority clients.
• Participates in regularly scheduled Peer Review.
• Follows all guidelines outlined in the HRMC Policies and Procedures Manual including Corporate Compliance Policies.
• Is expected to have regular and predictable attendance and the ability to work cooperatively with others.
• If licensed, signing the non-licensed clinicians' treatment plans and being available for clinical consult
• Coordinates and schedules ongoing outreach/referral meetings with community providers as part of the OnTrack model.

JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

Summary of role of team:

• Clinician works in a team format to meet the individual needs of clients in the program, while providing clinical recommendations for treatment.
• Functions as a member of a treatment team to plan, implement, and evaluate successful interventions for individuals and families.

Summary of position:

• Serves as the primary clinician that provides individual, group, and family counseling as part of the First Episode Psychosis/On Track TN model.
• Clinician provides weekly individual, group, or family psycho-therapy to adolescents and young adults ages 15-30 with a mental health diagnosis that involves symptoms evident of psychosis.
• Clinician will help clients clarify goals, cope with stressful situations, interact more effectively with other people, and generally to overcome barriers to client's recovery.
• Clinician is to provide psycho-social assessments for clients and provides diagnosis and appropriate referrals for clients assessed, as needed.
• Clinician provides crisis intervention and emergency services as needed. The primary clinician will rotate in a 24 hour/7 day a week on-call schedule.
• Treatment modalities used by Master's level clinicians providing therapy services include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), CBT for psychosis (CBTp), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC).
• Clinician embraces the key values of clinical services: empowerment, normalization, rehabilitation, and continuity of care.
• Provides administrative duties for the OnTrack TN program including supervisory responsibilities, training of new staff members and continued staff development, monthly reporting in house and to the state of Tennessee (TDMHSA), and the promotion of the program with outside agencies.
• Conducts administrative and clinical supervision to a coordinated specialty care team.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Care

• Provides individual/family psycho-therapy for youth and young adults ages 15-30.
• Clinician is present and ready to begin session at the appointment time, every session.
• Clinician calls to reschedule any sessions that he/she will be unable to attend or that the consumer missed or canceled 100% of the time.
• Clinician communicates accurate and thorough information to outside agencies 100% of the time when clients need different or more appropriate care that HRMC cannot provide.
• Ensures therapy contacts are completed each month, according to program standards.
• Provides diagnostic Psycho-Social Assessments
• Clinician completes intakes and assessments within 5 business days of contact.
• Assessments will be completed in coordination with Assessment Team and Client Benefits as evidenced by communicating any issues concerning clients or assessment.

Documentation requirements

• Ensures all family and client participation in treatment planning as evidence by signatures on tx plans.
• Communicates to supervisor if referrals become low in weekly supervisions.
• Meet weekly with direct supervisor to discuss clinical and administrative concerns/ changes
• Create and implement treatment interventions that are reflected in progress note documentation based on the treatment plan goals
• Respond to all flags and e-mails within 2 business days
• Respond to all voice mails within 30 minutes
• Complete all required clinical documentation in accordance with Center Policy and Procedure and funding source guidelines.
• Update treatment plans, crisis plans, DLA-20 and updated admissions signature page every 6 months
• Complete and submit productivity summaries to supervisor by the 3^rd business day of the month.
• Create daily progress notes and sign in EMR within one week of service provided

Leadership

• Attends and is timely to weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings
• If licensed, signing the non-licensed clinicians' treatment plans and being available for clinical consult
• Attends weekly staff meetings with team.
• Ensures update treatment plans, consumer strength assessments, crisis plans, consent to contact, releases, ROI, MIRECC and updated admissions signature page every 6 months as evidence by quarterly quality record reviews for OnTrack TN clients
• Complies with plan to ensure tracking system for Tx plans for all supervisees
• Complies with all required data for funding is tracked monthly and quarterly, as requested by supervisor.
• Work with Team leader to develop and implement an ongoing plan for community outreach to educate and connect others to the FEP model of treatment.
• Attend trainings to advance skills in the FEP model, and ensure cross-training of all appropriate roles, as part of the Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) model.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; and employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. Moreover, management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, or working schedules based on their duty to accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

COMPENSATION:

• Starting salary for this position is approximately $24,100.50 /yr based on relevant experience and education.

Equipment/Technical Competency:

• Must have basic competency in office applications such as Word and Excel.
• Position requires regular use of a computer, and appropriate phone etiquette.

Equipment/Technology:

• Position must be able to complete electronic documentation.

QUALIFICATIONS - .50 OnTrack Hamilton Master's Clinician

Experience / Knowledge:

• Master's degree in Human Services or related field. One-year experience in the social work field or a behavioral health setting preferred.
• Knowledge of etiology and treatment of mental illness, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, human development, and cultural diversity.

Education / License:

• Master's degree in human services or related field with course work or experience in the areas of cultural diversity, human development, etiology and treatment of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, and developmental disabilities.

Physical/Emotional/Social - Skills/Abilities:

• Exposure to biological hazards. Hearing of normal and soft tones. Close eye work. 
• Valid driver's license- F endorsement required for the transportation of clients. 
• Lifting up to 50 lbs. Pushing/pulling up to 150 lbs. frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, and reaching.
• Required to be certified in, and effectively implement, verbal and physical de-escalation techniques that include a wide range of bodily movements; including but not limited to, grasping, holding another person, going down on knees, running, and walking.

Location:

Hamilton County, Tennessee

Apply today to work where we care about you as an employee and where your hard work makes a difference!

Helen Ross McNabb Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

Helen Ross McNabb Center conducts background checks, driver's license record, degree verification, and drug screens at hire. Employment is contingent upon clean drug screen, background check, and driving record. Additionally, certain programs are subject to TB Screening and/or testing. Bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply.