Behavioral Health Clinician - ACT (Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton Co.)

View Point Health Job Title: Behavioral Health ClinicianJob Code: HCP051/Social Worker, Licensed 2 (Associate) or HCP 052/Social Worker 3 (Fully Licensed)Shift: Full-Time (40 hours per week on average)Job Hours: 8:30 AM 5:00 PM 8-hour days with flexible evening hours Monday-FridayBase Location: Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton(Based on Area of Assignment)Division/Department/Program: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide intensive mental health treatment services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness in their homes and other community settings-24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

ACT is often referred to as a hospital without walls and its goal is to keep individuals out of state hospitals, jails, emergency rooms and other institutions.

ACT clients have to meet a strict criterion (i.e.

diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness, unable to maintain activities of daily living, and be unsuccessful in other forms of treatment).

ACT clients often have no resources and no family support and require an intensive and expeditious form of treatment.

Under broad supervision, performs psychosocial assessments, treatment planning/monitoring and discharge planning.

Provides counseling/therapy to clients requiring complex intervention.

Performs commitment determinations and/or executes orders of involuntary commitments.

May serve as a team leader.

Duties & Responsibilities: Provides professional therapeutic services to persons with mental illness and/or addictive disease.Provides service coordination for an assigned group of clients; Arranges appointment schedule at optimal intervals to maximize use of work time.Conducts face-to-face comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history to identify problems and service needs.Writes individual service plans that meet Medicaid, insurer, CARF, and other required standards for diagnoses, content, justifications for treatment, evidence of consumer input, and treatment time frames.Writes service plans that are clear, concise, complete, grammatically correct, timely, and properly coded.Secures or provides necessary signatures required to secure authorization for services.Follows all Medicaid, state, insurer, and other regulations related to the credentials required to provide authorized services.Services Delivery: Provides individual, family or group therapeutic counseling and/or educational and skill development sessions as indicated in the service plan.Monitors consumer progress and compliance with the service plan.Writes timely progress notes that relate directly to the treatment outcomes described in the service plan.Assembles, analyzes, and interprets new/updated information about the consumer in order to reassess treatment needs.

Identifies unmet needs, reviews available resources, and modifies the treatment plan as indicated.Requests treatment authorizations and re-authorizations within r...