Residential Clinical Treatment Specialist

North Community Counseling Center•Columbus, OH

12h•Onsite

About The Position

North Community Counseling Centers (NCCC), a nonprofit behavioral health agency, is seeking a Residential Clinical Treatment Specialist to serve as the primary clinical coordinator for approximately 36 residents in NCCC residential programs. The role provides individual behavioral health counseling, clinical support, and care coordination based on residents’ assessed needs and treatment goals. The specialist develops and facilitates therapeutic, psychoeducational, and behavioral health groups supporting recovery, coping skills, emotional regulation, interpersonal functioning, independent living skills, and community stability. The position coordinates residents’ behavioral health services and appointments, monitors changes in functioning and treatment needs, and collaborates with residents, providers, residential staff, and interdisciplinary teams to support treatment plans and continuity of care. The role requires maintaining complete and timely clinical records, providing clinical consultation to residential staff, and complying with confidentiality, HIPAA, agency, ethical, and regulatory requirements. The position requires 95 billable hours per month and is full-time and onsite.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or a related behavioral health field.
Current Ohio behavioral health license appropriate to the services provided, such as LSW, LISW, LPC, LPCC, MFT, or IMFT.
Strong clinical judgment, organization, and care-coordination skills.
Ability to manage multiple residents, documentation requirements, appointments, and clinical priorities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
Compassionate, professional, and recovery-oriented approach to working with adults experiencing mental health challenges.
Ability to establish appropriate therapeutic rapport and professional boundaries with residents.
Valid driver’s license and automobile insurance.

Nice To Haves

Experience providing behavioral health services to adults with mental health conditions.
Experience completing behavioral health assessments, treatment plans, clinical documentation, and progress notes.
Experience working in residential, community behavioral health, case management, or outpatient mental health settings.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary clinical coordinator for approximately 36 residents in NCCC residential programs.
Provide individual behavioral health counseling, clinical support, and care coordination based on residents’ assessed needs and treatment goals.
Develop and facilitate therapeutic, psychoeducational, and behavioral health groups supporting recovery, coping skills, emotional regulation, interpersonal functioning, independent living skills, and community stability.
Complete and maintain Diagnostic Assessments (DA), Diagnostic Assessment Updates (DAU), Individual Service Plans (ISP), ISP reviews, annual clinical paperwork, progress notes, and other required documentation accurately and within required timeframes.
Coordinate behavioral health services and appointments with internal and external providers, including therapists, case managers, psychiatric and medical providers, hospitals, crisis services, and community-based programs.
Coordinate referrals, follow-up care, transitions between levels of care, and continuity-of-care needs.
Monitor residents for changes in functioning, symptoms, risk factors, treatment needs, and barriers to care, and communicate significant concerns and recommended follow-up to appropriate treatment-team members.
Participate in treatment-team and interdisciplinary meetings, discharge planning, and other care-coordination activities.
Collaborate with residential leadership and direct-care staff to ensure residential services support residents’ treatment plans and recovery goals.
Provide clinical consultation and guidance to residential staff regarding resident behavioral health needs, treatment approaches, coping strategies, behavioral interventions, and implementation of clinical recommendations.
Maintain confidentiality and comply with HIPAA requirements, agency policies, professional ethical standards, documentation requirements, and applicable behavioral health regulations.
Communicate professionally and collaboratively with residents, families, providers, community partners, residential staff, and NCCC team members.
Participate in clinical supervision, agency meetings, quality-improvement activities, required trainings, and other clinical or program-related duties and special projects as assigned.