Human Service Clinician

DAYMARK RECOVERY SERVICES INC

9d•$55,000 - $60,000

About The Position

Under indirect supervision, provides, oversees, and/or administers a wide range of psychosocial evaluation/assessment, diagnostic, substance abuse counseling, crisis intervention services in a high-intensity clinical environment which requires a high degree of independent decision-making. Most aspects of this job require clinical assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills to Substance Abuse and Co-occurring disorders consumers that are treated with Intensive Outpatient Treatment, a minimum of three hours per day, three days per week, which can include individual, family, and/or group therapy in an outpatient setting. Person Centered plan development and implementation are also core functions of this job.

Requirements

Doctorate degree in Psychology, or Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or addictions from an accredited college or university and licensed eligible or provisionally licensed in their perspective field.
Applicants with master’s degrees who are provisionally licensed or licensed eligible as clinical social workers, professional counselors, substance abuse counselors, marriage and family therapists, or clinical addiction specialists will be given consideration for employment.
LCSW and LCAS staff is expected to complete first evaluation training and provide first evaluations in the community.
Psychologist staff is expected to provide first evaluations in the community.

Responsibilities

Provides clinical psychosocial assessment and Substance Abuse treatment services to consumers with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders/problems.
Face to face clinical assessments are scheduled within 2 days of request of an assessment and provided using necessary clinical skills while meeting all regulatory requirements to ensure reimbursement for services.
Develops and implements the person centered plan for all SAIOP clients.
Provides evidenced based clinically effective SAIOP treatment services.
Service delivery may also involve consultation with various community stakeholder agency staff, law enforcement, family members or support network as deemed necessary or clinically appropriate.
Ongoing case management interventions are expected.
Provides indirect services with a variety of stakeholders from whom services are received or needed by consumers to insure appropriate coordination for transition of services to or from another provider or agency.
Provides appropriate recommendations for follow up and linkages to such as needed to consumers who have received services and require follow up to ensure they maintain sobriety/abstinence and are able to access appropriate community services.
Other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Consults with other local providers and referral sources by telephone as needed to insure coordination and transition of services when necessary.
There are 25 units of productivity standard to meet.
The clinician is expected to collect the necessary information needed for reimbursement for the assessments that are done by the clinician.
The clinician is also expected to turn in appropriate paper work so that assessments, Person Centered plans, and interventions may be billed.