BH/DS Clinician III: ACT Clinician
The City of Virginia Beach Department of Human Services is seeking to hire a candidate for the
ACT Clinician position who is highly ambitious and motivated with a passion to help others for the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program.
The ideal candidate for these positions will be licensed as a
LPC, LCSW, or license eligible, have experience providing community-based or in-home services to consumers with serious mental illness and or co-occurring disorders to include experience with providing skills training for activities of daily living, linking consumers to community resources, and providing crisis intervention and or hospital discharge planning.
Duties:
- Provide intensive community treatment and community-based services to consumers diagnosed with serious mental illness and/or co-occurring disorders.
- Provide comprehensive assessments for persons with chronic mental illness and co-occurring disorders to determine services and supports needed to promote safety and stability in the community.
- Develop individualized treatment plans that respond to the needs of the person served and coordinates service delivery that coincides with the treatment plan.
- Provide linkage, monitoring, and coordination of services such as medical care, specialized therapy, residential and housing support, vocational readiness and placement, residential crisis stabilization, etc.
- Assist consumers with attending appointments with Social Security, Social Services, landlords, and other community support services appointments and meetings.
- Serve as the primary care coordinator (SAI) for a caseload of 10-15 ACT Consumers.
- Provide supportive counseling, outreach home visits, crisis intervention and advocacy.
- Provide individual, group, family rehabilitative and supportive counseling, independent living training, and emergency/crisis intervention.
- Assist in the provision of medical services, such as delivering and monitoring medications, scheduling for and transportation to psychiatric and medical appointments and requesting medical records.
- Assist with TDOs and is present at hearings for ACT Team consumers. Assists and participates in all hospital diversion, hospital in-reach, and hospital discharge and re-integration services.
- Provide case and program consultation to individuals, organizations, agencies, groups, etc. that are involved with Virginia Beach ACT consumers.
- Participate in team meetings, clinical case reviews and supervision. Provides mental health educational materials and programs to consumers and staff.
- Maintain QA documentation standards in accordance to agency, DMAS and licensure regulations.
- Provide emergency assessment, treatment and collaboration during work hours and via the ACT emergency phone rotation.
Work Schedule – Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, one evening shift, 11:30 am – 8:00 pm, and alternating weekend day.
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$4,000 hiring bonus is being offered for this position. Hiring bonuses shall only be for new hires of original employment or reemployment as defined in Human Resources Policy No. 5.0.
- $1,000 will be awarded in the first paycheck.
- $1,250 will be awarded upon completion of the six (6) month interim performance evaluation with an overall rating of “Meets Expectations”.
- $1,750 will be awarded upon completion of the employee’s one (1) year probationary period and a performance evaluation with an overall rating of “Meets Expectations”.
This position is also eligible to receive a
$6,000 annual stipend to be paid in installments
over the 26 pay periods.
The City offers a
generous benefits package, which includes health, dental and life insurance, retirement and savings plans, maternity/paternity and parental leave, holidays and Paid-Time-Off.
The City of Virginia Beach is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
