ACCS LPHA Clinician

ACCS IMGLE LPHA

This position will be working in four different programs throughout the week, one program a day: Groveland, Haverhill, Methuen, and Andover. Potential for one Work from Home Day, flexibility needed.

The ACCS IMGLE LPHA promotes the full integration and functioning of Persons Served (PS) needed to live successfully in the community. Performs clinical duties including intake, assessment, treatment planning, and clinical interventions for assigned Persons Served (PS), living at the Intensive Medical Group Living Environment. Responsible for determining PS needs for rehabilitative services, as required by Medicaid Rehab Option. Directs the delivery of Treatment Plan interventions by IMGLE staff for PS. Oversees treatment interventions of PS in assigned IMGLE. Mentors and models for staff appropriate interventions. Trains and supports staff in delivering clinical evidence-based practices and best practices to all PS. The ACCS IMGLE LPHA works with the ACCS Clinical Program Director and Residential Director to ensure the IMGLE meets division and funding source standards for rehabilitative services, as required by Medicaid Rehab Option.

The essential job duties/responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the information listed below:

• Initiates and conducts required intake and engagement process for referred PS within 72 hours, to begin building the therapeutic relationship and assessing service needs of PS.
• Engages and assesses treatment and support needs of PS, initially and in a sustained manner.
• Determines PS need for rehabilitative services, as required by Rehab Option for IMGLE. Oversees the collection of information needed for assessments. Selects treatment and support interventions to address the needs of PS. Develops Medicaid Rehab Option billable treatment plan in collaboration with the PS, ACCS Clinical Program Director IMGLE and other assigned staff. Completes, dates, and signs both the Mental Status Exam and the Clinical Formulation-Interpretive Summary and prioritize PS Assessed Needs. Signs and dates the Treatment Plan and all subsequent Reviews and Revisions.
• Conducts Treatment Plan meetings with PS; invites and involves other involved parties (Legally Authorized Representative, family, friends, advocates, as applicable), and other staff when plan is developed or changed. Includes discussion of discharge criteria at first treatment plan meeting; updates and plans for discharge in all subsequent Treatment Plan meetings.
• Leads intervention team for each PS, comprised of a combination of ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) and ACCS IMGLE Nurse, based on specific needs of PS.
• Oversees service delivery to all assigned PS, including participation in services, treatment and support skills planning and implementation of recovery goals, peer and family support, readiness for discharge, and support through service and life transitions, including acute care and housing transitions.
• Develops and delivers individualized, life stage appropriate services and supports to PS, including young adults and seniors.
• Collaborates with Team members to deliver specific recovery, community, addictions, health, family or other treatment or support services needed for Treatment Plan success for PS.
• Promotes healthcare and employment services access for PS.
• Promotes engagement, safe housing, community tenure, achievement of greater self-sufficiency and successful completion of service for all PS.
• Assigns and directs IMGLE staff to deliver specific skills training and supports needed for Treatment Plan success for PS.
• Trains and directs the Program Director, and Residential Counselors of each assigned IMGLE to deliver interventions needed for Treatment Plan success, for PS residing in IMGLE.
• Performs, trains, supervises, mentors, and models the use of best practices and evidence-based clinical and recovery oriented interventions for PS, including Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment support; Screening; Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP); Seeking Safety and Cognitive Behavioral interventions.
• Works with ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) to manage the site's rehab/clinical systems and procedures, including planning and implementing regulations and requirements, quality improvement initiatives, and intakes and discharges.
• Supports competency-based training for all staff to achieve successful treatment outcomes for PS. Support staffs' use of trauma informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, culturally competent and strengths-based approaches and skills training techniques in their work.
• Works with ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) to actively assist PS during care transitions and life stage transitions.
• Works with PS to develop Safety Plans and/or Crisis Prevention and Response Plans. Reviews and updates Safety Plans and/or Crisis Prevention and Response Plans when there are changes in protective factors or a PS strengths and preferences, after care transitions, and at the annual treatment plan review, at a minimum.
• Interfaces with Emergency Services as needed, in conjunction with BH CP, One Care, or DMH Case Management.
• Interfaces with Care Coordination entities, as needed.
• Conducts Face-to-Face visit within 48 hours of a PS return to the community after Emergency Department visit, arrest, incarceration, homelessness, hospitalization, etc.
• Assists staff in the delivery of the Treatment Plans and check on progress, directly observing them performing interventions realted to PS Treatment Plans.
• Receives regularly scheduled role-based clinical supervision from ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) and or designee.
• Provides on-call clinical coverage, as scheduled.
• Participates as member of the LPHA/Clinician Community of Practice Workgroup led by the Clinical Directors for continuous professional role competency development, mentoring. and learning.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

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Qualifications

Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by ACCS to live, work, have meaningful relationships, and receive the clinical treatment, resources, and supports needed to thrive in their community of choice

Knowledge of clinical treatment principles and modalities, best practices and evidence-based practices, including Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment; Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; Seeking Safety and Cognitive Behavioral interventions

Knowledge of engagement strategies

Knowledge of crisis prevention, crisis intervention, and risk management strategies

Knowledge of recovery-oriented, person-centered and strengths-based values and principles and modalities, and knowledge of Peer Support principles and evidence-based practices, including the ethical standards of Certified Peer Specialists and Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), empowerment and self-advocacy techniques

Knowledge of the effects of prejudice including internalized negative attitudes about oneself, discrimination, and oppression of people with psychiatric disorders, and the effects of poverty

Knowledge of trauma-informed and culturally competent services

Sensitivity to the cultural, religious, ethnic, disability, and gender issues of PS

Knowledge of human, legal, and civil rights of PS

Knowledge of emergency services and acute care systems

Knowledge of community based mental health, health care, care coordination, and other services and resources available to PS

Knowledge of health risks of psychiatric disability

Skills and competence to formulate effective Treatment Plans, and to train paraprofessional staff to implement aspects of the plan

Ability to collaborate effectively with other Team members to address the needs of PS in the Treatment Plan

Ability to form supportive, trusting relationships with PS

Knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices

Knowledge and use of different communication and learning styles

Ability to make independent judgments and decisions