Community Outreach; AOT Clinician - Master's Degree

Overview

Career opportunities abound at SOUND! SOUND Behavioral Health is growing, and we are hiring an AOT Clinician in Seattle, WA!

This person will work with high-risk, high acuity clients and conduct assessments in the field. Additionally, this role will require frequent communication with legal representatives, including judges.

Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is the practice of providing community-based mental health treatment under civil court commitment, as a means of:

(1) motivating an adult with mental illness who struggles with voluntary treatment adherence to engage fully with their treatment plan; and

(2) focusing the attention of treatment providers on the need to work diligently to keep the person engaged in effective treatment.

to learn more about AOT.

Location: Outreach-focused role throughout the Seattle area. Home base is located at the Capitol Hill clinic (1600 E Olive St, Seattle, Washington, 98122). This role requires driving.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm.

Accepting Applications until March 13th, 2026.

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Assisted Outpatient Team(AOT) is a community-based outreach team that works with clients identified as high-utilizers with a pattern of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, likely jail involvement and a pattern of barriers to successfully maintaining outpatient care. AOT team members work intensively with a small caseload of clients, largely in the community.

AOT team members become true resource experts, as they work with people using harm reduction strategies, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused interventions to move toward positive care transitions that reduce repeat hospitalizations.

This is a rewarding and self-directed Job and services happen where the participants live and spend their time. This Job requires a person with a high level of comfort working with people who are experiencing a wide range of mental and/or behavioral disorders including actively using substances and is almost entirely community/outreach based.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

• Provides, direct services and/or internal and external organization referrals for clients.
• Responsible for providing clinical intakes/assessments for new clients.
• Maintains accurate and timely clinical records according to organization policy.
• Prepares necessary reports, summaries and progress notes, and incorporates into clinical records.
• Performs consultations and liaison duties with other agencies and resources on behalf of the client.
• Provides outreach, engagement, care coordination and intervention to clients.
• Assists client to achieve and sustain stability in the community, thereby reducing the use of hospitals or involuntary treatment services.
• Monitors medication regimes and treatment compliance.
• Monitors utilization of services and the success of outcome measures.
• Participates in team member meetings, consultations, case presentations and in-service training.
• Participates in ongoing program development and assessment.
• Works collaboratively with AOT peer and provider to support clients in achieving and sustaining stability.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

KEY WORK RELATIONSHIPS

Establishes and maintains positive, ethical, and professional working relationships with clinical team members, clients, and outside organizations. Relates to a wide variety of people including members of ethnic and sexual minority populations, and is respectful of individual and cultural differences.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Master's degree in social work, psychology, or a counseling-related field, with a strong emphasis on working with families and community agencies required.
• Experience: Strong knowledge of mental health disorders with previous experience in crisis intervention, emergency mental health services, and trauma-informed care is strongly preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Understands the principles of individual therapy, group therapy and/or case management approach to providing services.
• Possesses strong working knowledge of the mental and/or behavioral health and support resources of King County, and is familiar with state and local health delivery systems,…