Community Outreach (AOT) Clinician - Master's Degree Required

Assisted Outpatient Treatment Clinician

Career opportunities abound at SOUND! SOUND Behavioral Health is growing, and we are hiring an Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Clinician in Seattle, WA!

This person will work with high-risk, high acuity clients and conduct assessments in the field. Additionally, this role will require frequent communication with legal representatives, including judges.

Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is the practice of providing community-based mental health treatment under civil court commitment, as a means of:

1) motivating an adult with mental illness who struggles with voluntary treatment adherence to engage fully with their treatment plan; and

2) focusing the attention of treatment providers on the need to work diligently to keep the person engaged in effective treatment.

Location: Outreach-focused role throughout the Seattle area. Home base is located at the Capitol Hill clinic (1600 E Olive St, Seattle, Washington, 98122). This role requires driving.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm.

Accepting applications until June 22.

Responsibilities

General summary

The Assisted Outpatient Team (AOT) is a community-based outreach team that works with clients identified as high-utilizers with a pattern of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, likely jail involvement and a pattern of barriers to successfully maintaining outpatient care. AOT team members work intensively with a small caseload of clients, largely in the community.

AOT team members become true resource experts as they work with people using harm reduction strategies, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused interventions to move toward positive care transitions that reduce repeat hospitalizations.

This is a rewarding and self-directed job and services happen where the participants live and spend their time. This job requires a person with a high level of comfort working with people who are experiencing a wide range of mental and/or behavioral disorders including actively using substances and is almost entirely community/outreach-based.

Essential functions and duties

• Provides direct services and/or internal and external organization referrals for clients.
• Responsible for providing clinical intakes/assessments for new clients
• Maintains accurate and timely clinical records according to organization policy.
• Prepares necessary reports, summaries, and progress notes, and incorporates them into clinical records.
• Performs consultations and liaison duties with other agencies and resources on behalf of the client.
• Provides outreach, engagement, care coordination and intervention to clients.
• Assists client to achieve and sustain stability in the community, thereby reducing the use of hospitals or involuntary treatment services.
• Monitors medication regimes and treatment compliance.
• Monitors utilization of services and the success of outcome measures.
• Participates in team member meetings, consultations, case presentations and in-service training.
• Participates in ongoing program development and assessment.
• Works collaboratively with AOT peer and provider to support clients in achieving and sustaining stability.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Key work relationships

Establishes and maintains positive, ethical, and professional working relationships with clinical team members, clients, and outside organizations. Relates to a wide variety of people including members of ethnic and sexual minority populations, and is respectful of individual and cultural differences.

Qualifications

Education and experience

• Master's degree in social work, psychology, or a counseling-related field, with a strong emphasis on working with families and community agencies required.
• Experience: Strong knowledge of mental health disorders with previous experience in crisis intervention, emergency mental health services, and trauma-informed care is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, abilities, and skills

• Understands the principles of individual therapy, group therapy and/or case management approach to providing services.
• Possesses strong working knowledge of the mental and/or behavioral health and support resources of King County, and is familiar with state and local health delivery systems, including knowledge of various funding principles and clinical services mandates.
• Understands recovery concepts in behavioral health; synthesizes and applies, as appropriate to their work at Sound.
• Ability to learn new tasks and skills quickly, and to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, while simultaneously managing crises.
• Able to demonstrate the capacity to appreciate and work well with the complex and diverse population.

Certificates, licenses & registrations

• Required, Mental Health Professional (MHP) designation.
• Valid professional licensure (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, etc.) is preferred or must be working towards licensure with supervision.
• Must be able to obtain a WA State Agency Affiliated Counselor credential within the first 60 days of hire.
• Must pass a criminal background check.
• Washington State driver's license and an insurable driving record are required.

Physical demands

To successfully perform the essential duties of this job, an individual must be able to sit at a desk for four or more hours a day, and use office equipment, including phones and computer keyboards, for four or more hours per day. Individuals must be able to engage vendors, team members, clients and others over the phone and in-person by voice. Regular attendance is an essential function of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Limitations and disclaimer

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work performed; it is not intended as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and required skills for the job. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State laws. Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities necessary to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an "at-will" basis.

Perks at Sound!

All team members at Sound working 40 hours per week will be eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance: Premium 100% paid by Sound for team member and child coverage to age 26, depending on plan selected. Spouse/Domestic Partner coverage available at team member's cost.
• Life Insurance (2x annual salary + additional $25,000): paid by Sound
• Long Term Disability Insurance (60% monthly salary): paid by Sound
• Retirement Plan: Sound contributes 3% to team member's plan; team member is 100% vested.
• Retirement Plan - 401(k) Plan, pre-tax and/or Roth: team member may contribute to their own plan.
• Health Savings Account: Sound contributes $1,133.33 (individual) or $2,266.67 (family) for eligible team members, pro-rated for new hires in first year.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: for health care and dependent day care costs (pre-tax)
• EAP: Employee Assistance Plan
• Vacation: 18 days per year, increasing with years of service
• Holidays: 9 days per year
• Sick Leave: 12 days per year
• Bereavement Leave: for death in the family
• Parking: Free at all Sound sites
• Training: Free in-house professional training and $400 annually + 3 paid days approved off-site training
• Service Award: at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 & 40 years of service

Compensation

Master's degree range: $31.90-$34.65 per hour.