ACT Team - Qualified Professional

Pathways to Life • Greenville, NC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a dedicated master’s-level Qualified Professional position on a growing ACT team. The role carries a small group of assigned members, facilitates their person-centered planning, and delivers a broad range of rehabilitative and clinical interventions in the community. Candidates who bring a specialty — trauma-focused care, CBT for psychosis, supportive housing, forensic and legal issues, family work — will have room to build that specialty into the team.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a human services field and Qualified Professional status as defined in 10A NCAC 27G .0104(19)
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities appropriate to serving adults with serious and persistent mental illness
• Valid North Carolina driver’s license, reliable personal transportation, and auto insurance meeting agency minimums
• Ability to pass a criminal background check, drug screen, healthcare sanctions screening, and health screening including TB
• Current CPR and First Aid certification, or willingness to obtain within 30 days of hire
• Proficiency with electronic health records and standard office software

Nice To Haves

• Licensed or associate-licensed mental health professional (LCSW, LCSW-A, LCMHC, LCMHC-A, LMFT, LMFT-A, LPA)
• Prior experience on an ACT, CST, or other intensive community-based team
• Demonstrated specialty in trauma-informed care, supportive housing, psychiatric rehabilitation, forensic and legal issues, or family psychoeducation

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the person-centered planning process for assigned members, including annual rewrites and updates as needs change
• Deliver psychosocial rehabilitative interventions across daily living skills, social skills, money management, and community resource use
• Provide cognitive-behavioral interventions targeting psychological and behavioral problems, within the scope of training and supervision
• Provide tenancy support services, including assistance obtaining and maintaining safe, affordable housing and advocacy on tenancy rights
• Assist members with entitlements, benefit applications, and redeterminations
• Support family and natural support engagement, including psychoeducation
• Assess risk factors, develop functional crisis plans, and monitor response to treatment
• Cross-train fellow team members in an area of developed expertise
• Attend the daily team meeting, Monday through Friday
• Participate in the team’s 24/7/365 on-call rotation as first responder for crisis calls
• Deliver the majority of services in the community; on average 75% of face-to-face contacts occur in non-office settings
• Support the team standard of seeing each member on average 1.5 times per week for a minimum of 60 minutes
• Provide services on evenings, weekends, and holidays as scheduled by the team
• Complete documentation in the electronic health record within required timeframes

Benefits

• Salary
• Travel reimbursement (implied by 'Daily local travel required' and 'Frequent driving throughout the service area')
• Training opportunities (High-Fidelity ACT training, Crisis Response training, Brief Motivational Interviewing, Person-Centered Thinking PCP Instructional Elements training, DHHS-approved Tenancy Supports training)
• Equal Opportunity Employer status
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level