Wellness Clinician-Not Licensed

BRIDGEWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES•Elmwood Park, NJ

7d•$54,000 - $58,000•Onsite

About The Position

Expect Success at Bridgeway! We make a difference in people’s lives by supporting their life goals - our employees and the people we serve alike. We invest in our employees through competitive compensation and benefits, best practice training, and fostering a team-oriented culture that promotes career development. We nurture an environment that values diversity, where inclusivity, equity, and belonging thrive. At Bridgeway, Everyone Learns and Grows together. We give you our best, so you can unleash your full potential. Make a Future at Bridgeway! Who we are: Bridgeway values and promotes quality clinical and administrative practices to foster the best outcomes for persons who come to us for behavioral healthcare. We offer a work environment that supports teamwork, creativity, innovation, professional growth and dedication to the work. At Bridgeway, we never stop growing and innovating our vision of behavioral healthcare for the future. Why you should apply: As a Wellness Clinician-Not Licensed, you will join an evidence-based program and a dynamic team for the opportunity to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills and accomplish your dream of helping people to make progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging and always rewarding by engaging with persons we serve and co-workers as we all learn, grow, and thrive.

Requirements

Master’s Degree in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work or related area required
2 years’ post-Bachelor’s experience working with individuals with serious and persistent mental illness
Valid driver’s license required
No more than one moving violation within the past 12 months
Vehicle required

Responsibilities

Provides clinical supervision and direction in conjunction with the team leader and the teams’ licensed staff member to the PACT team, emphasizing a peer clinical supervision approach, and individual supervision on a monthly basis.
Provides monthly supervision for direct reports and seeks out monthly supervision from own supervisor.
Co-facilitates clinical meetings.
Ensures clinical interventions are evidence-based, stage-based, and lead to recovery goal attainment.
Conducts staff development activities, with help from the team, including orientation of new staff, in-service training, individual supervision and staff performance appraisal.
Develops clinical assessment, comprehensive assessment and a Recovery Plan, often focusing on clinical needs of the person receiving services.
Ensures documentation is completed on time and with quality in adherence to DMHAS/Medicaid standards.
Provides mental health education, community living skill training and supportive counseling in the home and other natural environments to persons served and significant others, often focusing on substance abuse education needs of the consumer.
Assesses service recipients stated concerns, mental illness symptoms, and behavior in response to medication and monitors for medication side-effects during the provision of observed self-administration and during ongoing face-to-face contacts.
Provides medication education to both individuals and family/significant others (with service recipient consent).
Coordinates services with other community mental health and non-mental health providers, as well as other medical professionals.
Ensures the team develops WRAP and Psychiatric Advance Directives that includes stage wise treatment utilizing Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Interventions and Teaching Strategies.
Ensures the team utilizes evidenced based practices, including motivational interviewing, IDDT, CBT skills, IMR, Trauma Informed Care, Permanent Supportive Housing and Career Development when engaging individuals with their recovery.
Provides crisis intervention services for persons served with acute psychiatric needs whose circumstances and conditions require rapid intervention.
Provides 24 hour on-call coverage on a rotating schedule with the ability to respond immediately to individuals by phone or in person.
Responds rapidly and flexibly to crisis, including but not limited to: accompanying the person to the local screening center or psychiatric emergency service and remaining with the person during the assessment process.
Assesses individuals’ daily living skills, and teaches individuals needed skills in the areas of budgeting, cooking, laundry, cleaning, shopping, personal hygiene, transportation, self-advocacy and ways to maintain housing.
Supports individuals to find and maintain employment and/or education/training.
Conducts outreach to newly enrolled individuals and encourages those reluctant to accept mental health services through interventions with them and/or family members and friends concerned with their welfare.
Supports the service recipient’s family and other members of his/her social network to help them manage the symptoms and related consequences of the service recipient’s illness, reduce the level of family and social stress associated with the illness, and achieve wellness.
Provides education to assist the service recipient and family to relate in a positive and supportive manner.