Stabilization Clinician - Fee for Service
About The Position
Eliot is seeking Fee for Service Stabilization Clinicians to join its Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CBHC) team. The CBHC program serves as a single-entry point for mental health and substance use services for youth, families, and adults. The clinician provides clinical evaluations and assessments during psychiatric crises, ensuring rapid response, targeted support, and engagement. This is an on-site position with flexibility to provide telehealth services as needed; fully remote work is not available. Various hours and schedules are available. Pay is $40 per hour for urgent care telehealth Fee for Service work and $50 per hour for urgent care on-site Fee for Service work. Benefits listed in the posting are prorated or may not apply to Fee for Service positions.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, or a related field.
- Strong diagnostic skills.
- Competence in crisis intervention.
- Ability to develop short-term interventions to support clients and families.
- Ability to use engagement strategies.
- Valid Massachusetts driver’s license.
Responsibilities
- Conduct diagnostic evaluations, stabilization interventions, and stabilization planning for clients and families experiencing an acute and urgent need for behavioral healthcare.
- Provide urgent care services, including crisis planning, stabilization, and short-term treatment to support clients through the stabilization process.
- Provide side-by-side interventions for individuals and families focused on problem solving, skills training, behavior modeling, optimism, and encouragement.
- Provide interventions in the office, virtually, in the community, and in clients’ residences, based on client preference, client need, and clinical direction from the urgent care team.
- Provide services and supports using a strengths-based, solution-focused, client-centered, recovery-oriented approach.
- Complete evaluation processes when clinically appropriate to assess safety, determine needed services and intervention levels, plan for community-based support or immediate interventions, and assess the need for hospitalization.
- Develop short-term treatment plans to support clients and youth in remaining in the community rather than seeking emergency room services or hospitalization.
- Provide direct, short-term, solution-focused clinical intervention and treatment for clients and families for crisis management and resolution over several days, until longer-term services are in place or acuity has subsided.
- Develop evidence-based safety and crisis plans focused on stabilization and maintaining the personal safety of clients and others.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Discounted fitness services and access to childcare resources.
- Company-paid life and accidental death insurance.
- Ongoing training, career advancement programs, tuition reimbursement, and leadership development.
