Team Clinician (Masters / LCSW / LMHC) (Mental Health Services)

Team Clinician

The Team Clinician promotes the full integration and functioning of adults with psychiatric conditions by providing person centered clinical community services. Supporting the Adult Clinical Community Services (ACCS) model, the Team Clinician will work in a community-based setting and perform clinical duties including intake, assessment, treatment planning and clinical interventions whether the client lives independently in the community, in a Group Living Environment or a Supported Independent Environment.

The Team Clinician will also be responsible for:

• Determining needs for rehabilitative services as required.
• Providing leadership amongst the team by directing the interventions provided by Team Outreach Workers
• Overseeing treatment interventions in GLEs/SIEs and model appropriate interventions.
• Training and supporting staff in delivering clinical evidence-based practices

Team members of Vinfen's Clinical Outreach Teams enjoy:

• Paid training and free CEUs
• Guaranteed licensed supervision
• Supportive team environments
• Extensive clinical resources and support from management
• Fast-paced, collaborative environment with a wide range of daily experiences
• Provided laptop and iPhone
• Eligibility for loan forgiveness and education assistance programs

Keywords: ACCSLPHA, LCSW, LICSW, LMHC, LMFT, BCBA, LADC, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Community Based, Clinician, Outpatient, VinfenLPHA

Job duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Initiate and conduct required intake and engagement process with Lead Peer Specialist for assigned referred PS within 72 hours, to begin building the therapeutic relationship and assessing service needs of PS.
• Engage and assess treatment and support needs of PS, initially and in a sustained manner.
• Determine PS need for rehabilitative services as required by Rehab Option for GLE/SIE and outreach PS. Oversee the collection of information needed for assessments. Select treatment and support interventions to address the needs of PS. Develop Medicaid Rehab Option billable treatment plan in collaboration with the PS, Peer Specialist(s) and other assigned staff. Complete, date and sign both the Mental Status Exam and the Clinical Formulation-Interpretive Summary and prioritize PS Assessed Needs. Sign and date the Treatment Plan and all subsequent Reviews and Revisions.
• Conduct Treatment Plan meetings with PS; invite and involve other involved parties (Legally Authorized Representative, family, friends, advocates, as applicable), assigned Peer Specialist and other staff when plan is developed or changed. Include discussion of discharge criteria at first treatment plan meeting; update and plan for discharge in all subsequent Treatment Plan meetings.
• Lead intervention team for each PS, comprised of a combination of Outreach Worker(s), Nurse, Housing Coordinator, Addictions Recovery Counselor, Peer Specialist, Community Connector, Employment Coordinator (FY 19) and/or Family Connector based on specific needs of PS.
• Oversee 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.
• Develop and deliver individualized, life stage appropriate services and supports to PS, including young adults and seniors.
• Collaborate with Team members to deliver specific recovery, community, addictions, health, family or other treatment or support services needed for Treatment Plan success for PS; whether living in an independent setting or a GLE/SIE.
• Promote healthcare and employment services access for PS.
• Promote engagement, safe housing, community tenure, achievement of greater self-sufficiency and successful completion of service for all PS.
• Assign and direct Outreach Workers to deliver specific skills training and supports needed for Treatment Plan success for PS living in independent settings.
• Train and direct the Program Director, Residential Counselors, and Awake Overnight Counselors of each assigned GLE/SIE to deliver interventions needed for Treatment Plan success, for PS residing in GLEs/SIEs.
• Perform, train, supervise, mentor and model the use of best practices and evidenced-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.
• Ensure the seamless integration of Team and GLE/SIE staff effort in performing interventions for each PS Treatment Plan.
• Ensure Intervention Teams provide thorough and thoughtful documentation of PS needs and services.
• Support 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.
• Provide outreach services, as necessary to PS when they appear to disengage from ACCS service.
• Oversee and actively assist PS during care transitions and life stage transitions.
• Collaborate with Assistant Team Leader to obtain and maintain guardianships for PS in the community who have determined to lack the capacity to give informed consent to treatment.
• Work with PS and assigned Team members to develop Safety Plans and/or Crisis Prevention and Response Plans. Review and update 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.
• Interface with Emergency Services as needed, in conjunction with BH CP, One Care or DMH Case Management.
• Interface with ACCS Employment Coordinator and Care Coordination entities as needed.
• Conduct Face-to-Face visit within 48 hours of a PS return to the community after Emergency Department visit, arrest, incarceration, homelessness, hospitalization, etc.
• Visit each assigned GLE/SIE twice each week, and as the needs of assigned PS dictate, to supervise staff in the delivery of the Treatment Plans and check on progress.
• Provide regular field supervision to Outreach Workers, directly observing them performing interventions related to PS Treatment Plans.
• Receive regularly scheduled role-based clinical supervision from ACCS Assistant Team Leader.
• Provide on-call clinical coverage as scheduled.
• Participate as member of the LPHA/Clinician Community of Practice Workgroup led by the Clinical Directors for continuous professional role competency development, mentoring and learning.
• May cover Assistant Team Leader's duties during absences.
• Participate in other activities, as assigned.
• Perform other related duties, as assigned.

About Vinfen

Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

Our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes:

• A fully funded, employer-sponsored retirement plan that requires no employee contribution as well as an employee-funded 403(b) plan
• First-rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans that are open all employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more. Plus, we offer a generous employer contribution toward the cost of medical insurance!
• Employer-paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability Insurance (no cost to you!)
• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance along with the option to purchase additional, voluntary, Short-Term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
• Generous paid time off (Employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week):
• 15 days of Vacation per year
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 10 Sick Days per year
• 3 Personal Days per year
• Educational Assistance and Remission Programs
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted YMCA memberships, access to discounted movie tickets and more!

About Us:

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's