Senior Clinical Therapist - Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT)

Posting number: 26-79746-10JH

Department: Behavioral Health

Division: WINDY SPRINGS ACT/FACT CLINIC

Job classification: SENIOR CLINICAL THERAPIST

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Community Services, Health Services, Mental Health, Social Services, Human Services, Health Sciences, Counseling, Community and Social Services

Summary

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 Senior Clinical Therapist 

Rotating after hours crisis coverage is requirred

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT), Palm Springs, CA

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT), evidence-based practices that provide intensive, field-based, multidisciplinary, team-based services for adults with serious mental illness. ACT/FACT supports individuals with complex behavioral health needs who may have experienced frequent hospitalization, homelessness, or involvement with the criminal justice system. FACT includes additional focus on individuals with justice system involvement. Services are individualized and delivered in the community to support stabilization, recovery, and improved functioning. Care provided is comprehensive and time unlimited.

Rotating after hours crisis coverage is requirred

The Senior Clinical Therapist will provide supervision to unlicensed staff, handle high-acuity, complex, or specialized cases that require more in-depth experience, provide staff trainings, collaborate with community partners and interdisciplinary teams to offer effective coordination of care, ensure that documentation meets strict legal and professional standards, support staff in handling high-risk situations, including specialized assessments and crisis situations as well as be of support to program and program supervisors.  This position has a 9/80 schedule and will work in the field therefore a driver’s license is required.

Under direction, performs the full range of therapeutic assignments related to the field of mental or behavioral health services and psychiatric social work, which includes the design and implementation of personalized treatment plans, individual and group psychotherapy, evaluations and investigations, and professional counseling, as applicable by professional licensing law, in order to meet the needs of consumers or families with mental or emotional disorders; and performs other related duties as required.

The Senior Clinical Therapist is the lead/advanced journey level of the Clinical Therapist series.  The Senior Clinical Therapist class has responsibility for providing clinical supervision, according to licensure and training, over unlicensed clinical staff. This classification is also responsible for performing, within the scope of licensure, the full range of psychotherapy and counseling services for individual consumers, couples, families, and groups exhibiting a variety of mental health and related disorders in a clinic or institutional setting. Assignments range from moderately difficult to the most complex and include serving in a lead capacity over and providing consultative support to other mental health treatment staff.

This classification is distinguished from the class of Mental Health Services Supervisor in that the latter class is the first line supervisor responsible for the planning or implementation of specialized mental health services. The Senior Clinical Therapist is further distinguished from the Clinical Therapist II in that the former is the lead level and may provide extensive clinical supervision, according to licensure and training, over unlicensed clinical staff.

For this recruitment, the position is eligible for a 10% DTR differential that is applied to hours physically worked.  At any time, this differential can be removed. 

The certification list generated from this recruitment may be used to fill other future Senior Clinical Therapist vacancies within Behavioral Health that may occur in the coming weeks. 

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