Team Clinician (Masters / LCSW / LMHC) (Mental Health Services)

Vinfen • Boston, MA

20d • $76,650 - $80,442

About The Position

The ACCS LPHA Clinician promotes the integration and functioning of Persons Served (PS) so they can live successfully in the community. The clinician provides intake, assessment, treatment planning, and clinical interventions for assigned PS living independently or in Group Living Environments (GLEs) or Supported Independent Environments (SIEs). The role determines eligibility and needs for rehabilitative services under the Medicaid Rehab Option, directs Outreach Workers in delivering treatment-plan interventions, oversees interventions in assigned GLEs/SIEs, and trains, mentors, and supports staff in evidence-based and recovery-oriented practices.

The clinician leads each PS’s intervention team and coordinates care, treatment, and support services with clinical and residential staff, peers, families, and community partners. The role supports recovery goals, safety planning, housing stability, community tenure, healthcare and employment access, and transitions between services, housing, and levels of care. It also includes regular visits to assigned GLEs/SIEs, field supervision of Outreach Workers, clinical coverage as scheduled, and participation in clinical learning and competency-development activities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling Psychology, or another LCSW-, LMHC-, or LPHA-licensure-eligible program.
• A Massachusetts LCSW, LICSW, LMHC, LRC, LADC 1, OTR, RN, or Licensed Psychologist credential is required.
• Must have access to an operational, insured vehicle and be willing to use it to transport Persons Served.
• Must have a valid driver’s license at employment; be at least 21 years old; have held a valid U.S. driver’s license for at least six months; and pass a driver screening background check.
• If using a personal vehicle, must maintain adequate insurance and a safe driving record, subject to annual checks.
• Must obtain CPR certification within the first two weeks of hire, First Aid certification within two weeks of hire, and MAP certification within 150 days of hire.
• Knowledge of clinical treatment principles, modalities, best practices, and evidence-based practices, including Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, addiction treatment, SBIRT, Housing First, Stages of Change, Seeking Safety, and Cognitive Behavioral interventions.
• Knowledge of engagement, crisis prevention, crisis intervention, and risk-management strategies.
• Knowledge of recovery-oriented, person-centered, strengths-based, and peer-support principles and practices, including Certified Peer Specialist ethical standards, WRAP, empowerment, and self-advocacy.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed and culturally competent services; sensitivity to cultural, religious, ethnic, disability, and gender issues; and knowledge of Persons Served human, legal, and civil rights.
• Knowledge of the effects of prejudice, discrimination, oppression, and poverty on people with psychiatric disorders.
• Knowledge of emergency services, acute care systems, community-based mental health and healthcare services, care coordination, community resources, and health risks associated with psychiatric disability.
• Ability to formulate effective treatment plans and train paraprofessional staff to implement parts of those plans.
• Ability to collaborate with team members, build supportive and trusting relationships with Persons Served, and make independent judgments and decisions.
• Knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices and different communication and learning styles.
• Ability to work professionally and confidentially.
• Knowledge of personal computer applications and equipment, and extensive knowledge of documentation standards and requirements.
• Ability to meet the described physical demands, including lifting at least 25 pounds using proper technique or a two-person lift, and assisting Persons Served with activities of daily living.

Nice To Haves

• Clinical experience working with people with psychiatric disabilities and/or co-occurring disorders.
• Bilingual/bicultural applicants are encouraged to apply.
• Applicants with lived experience of psychiatric conditions are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Initiate and conduct the required intake and engagement process with the Lead Peer Specialist for assigned referred Persons Served within 72 hours.
• Engage Persons Served and assess their treatment and support needs initially and on an ongoing basis.
• Determine rehabilitative service needs under the Rehab Option; oversee assessment information collection; select interventions; and develop, complete, sign, and review Medicaid Rehab Option treatment plans and related clinical documentation.
• Conduct treatment-plan meetings with Persons Served and involve legally authorized representatives, family, friends, advocates, peer specialists, and staff as appropriate; discuss and update discharge criteria and planning.
• Lead an intervention team for each Person Served, drawing on relevant clinical, residential, peer, housing, employment, recovery, and family-support staff.
• Oversee service delivery, participation, treatment and support skills planning, recovery goals, peer and family support, discharge readiness, and service and life transitions.
• Develop and deliver individualized, life-stage-appropriate services and supports, including for young adults and seniors.
• Collaborate with team members to provide recovery, community, addiction, health, family, and other services needed to meet treatment-plan goals.
• Promote access to healthcare and employment services, safe housing, community tenure, self-sufficiency, and successful completion of services.
• Assign and direct Outreach Workers in providing skills training and supports to Persons Served living independently.
• Train and direct GLE/SIE Program Directors, Residential Counselors, and Awake Overnight Counselors in delivering treatment-plan interventions.
• Perform, train, supervise, mentor, and model evidence-based clinical and recovery-oriented interventions, including Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, addiction-treatment support, SBIRT, Housing First, Stages of Change, WRAP, Seeking Safety, and Cognitive Behavioral interventions.
• Coordinate Team and GLE/SIE staff efforts and ensure thorough documentation of Persons Served needs and services.
• Support competency-based staff training and trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, culturally competent, and strengths-based approaches.
• Provide outreach when Persons Served appear to disengage from ACCS services.
• Oversee and assist Persons Served during care and life-stage transitions.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Team Leader to obtain and maintain guardianships when Persons Served are determined to lack capacity to give informed consent to treatment.
• Develop and update Safety Plans and/or Crisis Prevention and Response Plans with Persons Served and assigned team members.
• Interface with Emergency Services as needed, in conjunction with BH CP, One Care, or DMH Case Management, and coordinate with employment and care-coordination entities as needed.
• Conduct a face-to-face visit within 48 hours after a Person Served returns to the community following an emergency department visit, arrest, incarceration, homelessness, hospitalization, or similar event.
• Visit each assigned GLE/SIE twice weekly and as needed to supervise staff treatment-plan implementation and check progress.
• Provide regular field supervision to Outreach Workers, including direct observation of interventions.
• Receive regularly scheduled role-based clinical supervision from the ACCS Assistant Team Leader.
• Provide on-call clinical coverage as scheduled.
• Participate in the LPHA/Clinician Community of Practice Workgroup for professional competency development, mentoring, and learning.
• May cover the Assistant Team Leader’s duties during absences and perform other assigned related duties.

Benefits

• Fully funded 401(a) employer-sponsored retirement plan requiring no employee contribution.
• Employee-funded 403(b) plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, with an employer contribution toward medical insurance.
• Employer-paid life, accidental death and dismemberment, and long-term disability insurance.
• Employer-paid short-term disability insurance for qualifying employees.
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts for health and dependent care.
• Voluntary term life, whole life, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.
• Paid time off for employees scheduled to work at least 20 hours per week.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level