Associate or Fully Licensed Clinician

Job Summary:

Under general supervision, assess, screens, and counsels clients in an intensive outpatient mental health and/or substance abuse program to enhance, meet, or restore a client’s functioning capacity. Works with a multi-disciplinary team that provides individual and group psychotherapy and psychoeducation to adult mental health and substance abuse clients. Provides case management and develops client-driven treatment plans. Provides counseling/therapy to clients requiring complex intervention, including those who are homicidal, suicidal, or exhibit life-threatening behaviors, determines necessity for involuntary commitment and may partake in executing orders of involuntary commitment. Complete assessments, manage a case load, complete treatment plans, and obtain authorization for services.
 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Assessments

• Performs thorough bio psychosocial assessment of the less complex to more complex clients and documents the assessment within agency guidelines
• Utilizes information from multiple sources as appropriate in the formulation of client driven treatment planning
• Assess and documents responses to interventions and modifies intervention as needed
• May utilize specific assessment tools regularly in evaluation of the client
• Demonstrates strong clinical judgement in assessments, application of diagnostic criteria, clinical formulations, and sound triage decisions
• Seeks clinical supervision as necessary
• Creates therapeutic relationship

Advanced Therapeutic Counseling

• Creates therapeutic relationship as appropriate with consumers and families/significant others
• Conducts individual, family, group counseling/therapy, and educational sessions using evidence-based intervention
• Demonstrates clinical knowledge in mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorder treatment
• Demonstrates documented clinical proficiency (through education, training, or experience) in client engagement, interviewing, and recording
• May utilize advanced certification in specialty in counseling the consumer and others

Counsels Individuals, Groups, and Significant Others

• Creates therapeutic relationship as appropriate with consumers and families/significant others
• Conducts individual, family, group counseling/therapy, and educational sessions using evidence based interventions
• Demonstrates clinical knowledge in mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorder treatment
• Demonstrates documented clinical proficiency (through education, training or experience) in client engagement, interviewing and recording

Develops and Participates in Complex Case Management/Care Planning

• Creates, communicates, and coordinates treatment plan of the more complex consumer
• Demonstrates expertise in care/planning through objectives, goals, and specificity of plan
• Serves as resources to staff in demonstration of up-to-date knowledge of DCSB, community, regional, and state resources
• Assist treatment team in problem solving regarding needed resources for complex consumers
• Insures timely communication with providers through proper exchange of written and verbal communication per policy and procedure
• Document referrals, discharges, and resources or other issues for problem resolution and/or utilization as required in agency policy
• May serve as a liaison in community resource activities 

Professional

• Maintain licensure/certification
• Actively participates in clinical supervision
• Actively engages in behavioral health educational initiatives
• Seeks continuing education to meet current clinical needs

Minimum Training, Competency & Experience:

• Current licensure or ability to achieve within 12 months as an LAPC/LPC, LMSW/LCSW, LAMFT/LMFT by the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists is required
• Demonstrates competency in using evidenced based treatments for mental illness and addiction
• The employee must be computer efficient and can multi-task
• The employees must demonstrate initiative, flexibility, and professionalism
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a residential or outpatient setting with mental health or substance abuse programs
• Experience working with adults, children, adolescents and veterans
• Experience conducting groups counseling/therapy services

Physical Requirements: 

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by ADA requirements for applicants and employees to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The job requires lifting and carrying up to 5lbs
   

Pre-employment drug screening may be required. Selected applicant will be subject of an FBI Criminal History Record Check, and the applicant has the right to challenge the contents of their Criminal History Record Information, should they choose to do so.