Outreach Clinician, Veteran's

PINE STREET INN INC•Boston, MA

About The Position

The Outreach Clinician is an essential position working 65% on the Streets of Boston and 35% in the office. The Outreach Clinician (OC) will work within a Specialized Outreach Program – Pathways to Recovery - designed for unsheltered individuals with SUD and COD. The OC, through targeted Outreach and assertive engagement will complete a community-based Bio-psych-social assessment and successful timely referral to appropriate levels of care based on ASAM criteria. The OC will play an important role in supporting clients through service transitions to ensure a soft landing and warm handoff from the street to recovery and housing. The OC will work as part of a specialized Outreach team and will leverage all recovery and housing resources and reduce or mitigate barriers to services and housing. The Outreach Clinician will work with clients to develop a Safe Placement and Stability plan. These services could include but are not limited to crisis intervention and safety planning, connection to medication management, emergency services, assisting a guest in accessing detox or recovery services and other stabilization services as needed. Once the clinician and the client have established a Safe Placement and stability plan, the Outreach Clinician will participate in warm hand offs to internal and external providers for continued work toward permanent housing. The Outreach Clinician will work with community providers of health and behavioral health services to coordinate care plans for appropriate medical and behavioral health services. The Outreach Clinician will work within a Best-Practice framework of Stages of Change Theory, Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-informed Care. The Outreach Clinician will work in collaboration with Outreach Specialists, a Housing Support Specialist, a Benefits Navigator, and will report to the Clinical Supervisor of the Veteran's Outreach Program. The Outreach Clinician will always work towards a Housing Pathway with clients consistent with the Mission, Vision, and Values of the Pine Street Inn.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Social Work or related field
Ability to obtain LICSW or LMHC within twenty-four (24) months of hire date
Minimum of three (3) years direct care experience providing clinical services, including assessment and referral, crisis intervention and stabilization, individual and group treatment, to adults with mental illness and addictive disorders
Knowledge, understanding and application of Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Informed Care and Stage of Change Work
Knowledge of crisis intervention and stabilization
Knowledge of recovery and treatment resources and how to get access to them
Awareness of, and commitment to self-care strategies and practices
Ability to consult about psychiatric issues with professional and non-professional staff
Strong computer skills including familiarity with management information systems or database programs
Experience with and affinity for working as part of a close-knit, multi-disciplinary team

Nice To Haves

LICSW
LMHC A valid Massachusetts Driver’s License in good standing
Experience working in a hospital or trauma center
Experience in Outreach and diversion
Working knowledge of ASAM criteria
Experience working with chronically homeless, medically vulnerable individuals, with tri-morbidities (mental illness, substance abuse, medically compromised)
Experience supervising, coaching, mentoring, empowering and otherwise supporting non-clinical direct-care staff
Expertise in Trauma-Informed Care, including the impact on direct-care staff (i.e. secondary traumatic stress, vicarious traumatization)
Bilingual in Spanish and English
Familiarity with the Massachusetts public and private mental health systems