Mental Health Professional Therapist - ACT/FACT Pottstown

St. Luke’s University Health Network•Pottstown, PA

About The Position

The ACT/FACT Mental Health Professional is a member of a multidisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment Team serving individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. The role provides supportive and specialized services, including outreach, monitoring, assessment, service planning, psychotherapy, support-network building, family consultation, side-by-side skills training, and instruction in the use of community resources. The Mental Health Professional provides in-vivo services in participants’ homes and other community settings to support quality of life and continued community living. Services include assistance with daily living, budgeting, housing stability, benefits access, meal planning, transportation, coaching, and accompaniment to activities or appointments. The role also provides medication services as directed by the team psychiatrist, nursing staff, and Team Leader; coordinates services for assigned clients; develops and revises treatment goals; and provides counseling and crisis support. The position includes individual and group psychotherapy using evidence-based approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as well as Harm Reduction and other strategies aligned with participants’ stages of change. The professional supports symptom and crisis management, helps participants develop mental wellness plans, documents services in the electronic health record, and cross-trains with other ACT specialties. On-call coverage and rotating weekend, evening, and holiday work are required.

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or another recognized clinical graduate degree.
Minimum of two years of direct-service experience with individuals with mental health diagnoses.
Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and a driving record compliant with St. Luke’s University Health Network policy.
Good physical and mental health.
Visual and auditory acuity required to provide comprehensive care.
Ability to perform heavy work, including occasionally lifting or carrying up to 50 pounds and sitting, standing, and/or walking at least six hours in an eight-hour workday.
Ability to perform frequent stooping, crouching, and grasping, and occasional fine manipulation.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with individuals with forensic involvement and/or co-occurring substance disorders.

Responsibilities

Meet with ACT participants in their homes and community settings to provide in-vivo services that improve quality of life and maintain community tenure.
Assist participants with activities of daily living, budgeting and money management, housing stability, benefits and entitlements, meal planning, grocery shopping, transportation, and side-by-side coaching.
Transport and accompany clients to scheduled community activities or appointments.
Provide medication services, including medication delivery and observation of ingestion, as directed by the team psychiatrist, nursing staff, and Team Leader.
Coordinate services for an assigned group of clients in collaboration with ACT staff.
Develop, write, implement, evaluate, and revise treatment goals.
Provide individual and supportive counseling to assist with symptom management.
Provide rotating on-call crisis services, including primary and backup coverage, as directed by the Team Leader.
Complete timely service documentation in the electronic health record according to program and Network standards.
Work rotating weekends, evenings, and holidays as directed by the Team Leader.
Cross-train with other ACT specialties to provide services such as housing and vocational support.
Assess participants’ mental health symptoms, diagnoses, treatment histories, and wellness needs.
Help participants develop plans to maintain mental wellness, decrease hospitalization, and maintain community tenure.
Provide individual, in-field psychotherapy to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness using evidence-based therapy strategies.
Use Harm Reduction and other strategies aligned with participants’ current stages of change.
Provide group psychotherapy to address symptoms and build symptom-management skills.
Provide primary support and cross-training to ACT team members for symptom and crisis management, promoting stability and community tenure.