ACT Mental Health Clinician

PATH People Acting To Help, Inc.•Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

To promote the mission of PATH to help individuals achieve a more independent and fulfilling life by being an effective team member. This member of the ACT multidisciplinary team has the responsibility to carry out treatment, rehabilitation and support functions, education, and provide crisis intervention to participants and support and consultation to families. Provide service coordination (case management) for an assigned group of participants including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team.

Requirements

M.A. degree in Social Work, Psychology, Human Services/Social Sciences, Healthcare or related field.
Internships and/or other supervised practical experience in a clinical or rehabilitation setting with persons with mental illness and/or co-occurring disorders.
Valid Driver's License required.
Must be available or scheduled emergency on-call service and will be required to carry a mobile phone during regularly scheduled working hours and scheduled on-call service. As essential personnel may be required to report to work during emergencies including inclement weather.

Responsibilities

Provide service coordination (case management) for assigned group of clients including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team; assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall treatment goals and plans in collaboration with the client and the ITT; provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management; ensure immediate changes; are made in treatment plans as clients’ need change, educate and support clients’ families; and advocate for clients’ rights and preferences.
Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g. onset, course an effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment, social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g., care-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.
Provide ongoing assessment of client’s mental illness symptoms and clients’ responses to treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior that put clients at risk (e.g., suicidality). Provide symptom education to enable clients to identify their mental illness symptoms.
Provide direct clinical services including individual supportive therapy and psychotherapy to clients on an individual, group and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom- management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting clients to adapt to and cope with internal and external stresses.
Provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, with some interventions directed or performed by staff with specialty training and skills (e.g., vocational specialists).
Perform shift management in coordination with other shift managers according to established policies and procedures.
Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime hours and serve as a back-up to evening and weekend staff.
Document client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established methods and procedures.
Provide individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings to a stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational, considers interactions of mental illness and substance abuse, and has client-determined goals.
Other duties as assigned.