Team Clinician; LCSW​/LICSW​/LMHC; Behavioral Health Services

This member of the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) multidisciplinary team has training in one of the mental health professions (e.g., nursing, social work, rehabilitation counseling, or psychology) and clinical skills and experience to assess, plan, develop, coordinate, and provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to program persons served with severe and persistent mental illnesses under the clinical supervision of the Team Leader and the Psychiatrist.

Functions as a clinical member of the multidisciplinary team and provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.

SIGN ON BONUS: $5K

• Provide case management for an assigned group of persons served, including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall treatment goals and plans in conjunction with the ITT, providing individual supportive therapy
and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the

Individual Action Plan (IAP) as persons served needs change, educating and supporting persons served families, and advocating for persons served rights and preferences.

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social
development and functioning activities of daily living (e.g., self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.

• Consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.

• Perform shift management in coordination with other PACT shift managers according to established policies and procedures.

• Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime and weekend hours.

• Document persons served progress to maintain a permanent record of persons served activity
according to established methods and procedures.

• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meetings.

• Participate in providing medication administration and medical services under the supervision of the lead nurse.

• Under the direction of the lead nurse and in collaboration with the other registered nurse on the team, develop, revise, maintain, and supervise team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures; including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording psychotropic medications prescribed by the team psychiatrist; evaluate and chart psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects; and arrange for required lab work according to protocol.

• Under the direction of the lead nurse and in collaboration with the other registered nurse on the team, organize and manage the system of getting medication to persons served and integrating medication administration tightly into persons served IAP, as appropriate.

• Under the direction of the lead nurse and in collaboration with the other registered nurse on the team, manage pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.

• In collaboration with the lead nurse, coordinate, schedule, and administer medical assessments of persons served physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment and coordinate psychiatric treatment with medical treatment.

• Participate in treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.

• Perform other related duties, as required.

Psychiatric Treatment and Dual Diagnosis Substance Abuse Services

• Provide ongoing assessment of persons served mental illness symptoms and persons served response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in the IAP to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put persons served at risk.

• Provide symptom education to enable persons served to identify their mental illness symptoms.

• Provide direct clinical services, including individual support therapy and psychotherapy, to…