Licensed, Behavioral Health Clinician - ACT (Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton)

View Point Health

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide intensive mental health treatment services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness in their homes and other community settings-24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.  ACT is often referred to as a “hospital without walls” and its goal is to keep individuals out of state hospitals, jails, emergency rooms and other institutions.  ACT clients have to meet a strict criterion (i.e. diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness, unable to maintain activities of daily living, and be unsuccessful in other forms of treatment).  ACT clients often have no resources and no family support and require an intensive and expeditious form of treatment.

Under broad supervision, performs psychosocial assessments, treatment planning/monitoring and discharge planning. Provides counseling/therapy to clients requiring complex intervention. Performs commitment determinations and/or executes orders of involuntary commitments. May serve as a team leader.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides professional therapeutic services to persons with mental illness and/or addictive disease.
• Provides service coordination for an assigned group of clients; Arranges appointment schedule at optimal intervals to maximize use of work time.
• Conducts face-to-face comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history to identify problems and service needs.
• Writes individual service plans that meet Medicaid, insurer, CARF, and other required standards for diagnoses, content, justifications for treatment, evidence of consumer input, and treatment time frames.
• Writes service plans that are clear, concise, complete, grammatically correct, timely, and properly coded.
• Secures or provides necessary signatures required to secure authorization for services.
• Follows all Medicaid, state, insurer, and other regulations related to the credentials required to provide authorized services.
• Services Delivery: Provides individual, family or group therapeutic counseling and/or educational and skill development sessions as indicated in the service plan.
• Monitors consumer progress and compliance with the service plan.
• Writes timely progress notes that relate directly to the treatment outcomes described in the service plan.
• Assembles, analyzes, and interprets new/updated information about the consumer in order to reassess treatment needs. Identifies unmet needs, reviews available resources, and modifies the treatment plan as indicated.
• Requests treatment authorizations and re-authorizations within required time frames.
• Provides and bills only those consumer services that are authorized in the service plan.
• Establish, document and implement treatment plans; attend the daily organizational staff meetings and treatment planning meetings.
• Clinical skill and experience to assess, plan, develop, coordinate and provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to program clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses under the clinical supervision of the Team Lead.
• Participates in providing treatment and dual diagnosis services.
• Crisis Intervention provides crisis intervention services to existing consumers as needed.
• Provides on-call, after hours services on an as needed basis.
• May serve as case manager to facilitate and ensure communication, linkage, and continuity of care between consumers, physicians, other organizational components, community resources and service providers.
• Establishes linkages and coordination of services with community agencies.
• Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with community service providers. Informs consumers and families of the availability of community advocacy and support groups.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master's degree in a related area from an accredited college or university AND licensure in the area of assignment AND Two years of related post-license experience OR Master's degree in a related area from an accredited college or university AND licensure in the area of assignment AND Two years of experience at the lower level Social Worker, Licensed 2 (HCP051) or position equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience working with the Severe and Persistently Mentally Ill population, ACT teams, or individual identified as being frequent users of ERs, Psychiatric Hospitals, Crisis Stabilization Units, and the criminal justice system.
• At least 1 year of experience working with SPMI (Severe Persistent Mental Illness).
• Case management experience.
• Experience working in a high stress, fast-paced environment with a very emotionally and physically changing population.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to Multi-task and manage time.
• Full licensure and ability to perform an involuntary hospitalization (if not fully licensed but be eligible within 3 months of hire).
• Experience with crisis response setting.
• Must be licensed with one of the following: LCSW or LPC

Requirements/Competencies:

• Must be a fully licensed clinician LPC or LCSW in the state of Georgia.

• Must be able to lift 20 pounds.
• Requires long periods of sitting/standing.
• Must have valid Georgia driver’s license and Motor Vehicle Record in accordance with company policy.
• Candidates for selection must pass a criminal background check (including fingerprinting).
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen and subject to random drug screens.
• Any combination of training and experience, which would have enabled the applicant to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities Note: Some positions may require a valid driver's license.

Benefits

• State Health Benefits Package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, long-term care, legal services, flexible spending accounts)
• Paid New Hire Training
• Company contributes additional 7.5% of salary to 401(a) Retirement Plan
• No employee deduction for Social Security
• Additional benefits such as legal services, Employee Assistance Program and discounted tickets to attractions, shopping, technology, and travel
• Supervision, training, and continuing education opportunities available

View Point Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer:  View Point Health recruits qualified candidates for positions in View Point Health programs throughout its service area.  It is the policy of View Point Health to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.