FSP Therapist - Palmdale

Overall Function

Provide therapeutic assessment, diagnosis, and intervention with clients (age 0-21), and their families, who may be homeless, dually-diagnosed, severely mentally ill, and/or dealing with other acute and/or chronic challenges which require comprehensive mental health and case management services.

• Develop an appropriate clinical treatment plan for clients and their family dictated by each client’s medical necessity and functional impairments.
• Provide individual and family therapy as often as needed, or other therapeutic intervention as needed to meet the needs of the client.
• Collaborate closely with case manager to identify each client’s case management needs, and incorporate case management goals into treatment plan.
• Complete all Full Service Partnership paperwork in a timely manner, appropriately meeting DMH and agency guidelines in an EHRS.
• Be on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide any needed services by the client and their family, including providing crisis intervention as needed. (Calls are infrequent!)
• Provide outreach and engagement services for clients and prospective clients to promote the program, and to reach people in the community letting them know their options to receive mental health services through DMH.
• Attend appropriate designated on-site and off-site meetings to stay on top of FSP requirements.
• Attend designated clinical trainings on relevant topics to ensure quality clinical care of the client and their family.
• Other duties as deemed appropriate by program supervisor.