Bachelors Level Clinician
About The Position
The Bachelors Level Clinician works in Clinical Support Services in Brockton, providing direct care and case management to patients. Responsibilities include assessment, individual counseling, group facilitation, treatment planning, progress documentation, discharge and aftercare planning, and connecting patients and families with appropriate outpatient services. The clinician maintains assigned patient records and caseloads, participates in treatment team meetings and case conferences, and complies with confidentiality, safety, and patient-rights requirements. High Point & Affiliated Organizations is a health and human service agency focused on treating and preventing substance use disorders and mental illness. Its programs across Southeastern Massachusetts provide inpatient, outpatient, residential, and community-based care, as well as services for survivors of abuse and violence and families experiencing homelessness. The agency’s stated goal is to help individuals and families achieve personal change and improve their quality of life.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in behavioral health or a related field.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Understanding of the relationship between substance abuse and mental health issues and/or self-help programs.
- Diagnostic and assessment skills and case management ability.
- Promote and enhance knowledge of psychiatric illness and addiction symptoms.
- Ability to collaborate with other agencies.
- Ability to facilitate groups and lectures.
- Ability to set limits and enforce rules.
- Understanding of boundaries and ethics.
- Computer skills.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and submit current licensure or certificates necessary to perform the position.
- Comply with Federal Regulations, 42 CFR Part 2, the Confidentiality of Alcohol Abuse Policy, and HIPAA regulations.
- Participate in treatment team meetings.
- Maintain an assigned caseload and provide direct care, including new-patient assessments, individual counseling, discharge planning, treatment plans, daily progress notes, daily groups, group notes, and biopsychosocial assessments.
- Maintain assigned patients’ medical records professionally, completely, thoroughly, and in a timely manner.
- Provide individual counseling, group facilitation, lectures, orientation for new patients, discharge and aftercare planning, and case management.
- Link patients with aftercare services before discharge and help patients and their families access outpatient services when appropriate.
- Attend unit and facility meetings and case conferences as directed by the Clinical Director.
- Attend mandatory trainings.
- Continue education in substance abuse and related courses.
- Contact insurance companies for authorization as needed.
- Use a walkie-talkie as a campus responder.
- Use standard precautions at all times.
- Demonstrate behaviors that recognize patients’ rights.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Program Director, Clinical Director, and/or Senior Clinician.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts and dependent care accounts.
- Long-term and short-term disability.
- Life insurance.
- 403(b) retirement plan.
- Paid vacation and time off.
- PFML.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Bonuses and referral incentives.
- Discounted auto, home, and renters’ insurance.
- Free courses to become a Licensed Counselor or Recovery Coach.
- Company-paid CEU training with education days.
- Free meals at select programs, based on availability.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
