ACCS LPHA Clinician

About the role

This position will be working in four different programs throughout the week, one program a day: Groveland, Haverhill, Methuen, and Andover. Potential for one Work from Home Day, flexibility needed.

Responsibilities

• Initiates and conducts required intake and engagement process for referred PS within 72 hours, to begin building the therapeutic relationship and assessing service needs of PS.
• Engages and assesses treatment and support needs of PS, initially and in a sustained manner.
• Determines PS need for rehabilitative services, as required by Rehab Option for IMGLE.
• Selects treatment and support interventions to address the needs of PS.
• Develops Medicaid Rehab Option billable treatment plan in collaboration with the PS, ACCS Clinical Program Director IMGLE and other assigned staff.
• Completes, dates, and signs both the Mental Status Exam and the Clinical Formulation-Interpretive Summary and prioritize PS Assessed Needs.
• Signs and dates the Treatment Plan and all subsequent Reviews and Revisions.
• Conducts Treatment Plan meetings with PS; invites and involves other involved parties (Legally Authorized Representative, family, friends, advocates, as applicable), and other staff when plan is developed or changed.
• Includes discussion of discharge criteria at first treatment plan meeting; updates and plans for discharge in all subsequent Treatment Plan meetings.
• Leads intervention team for each PS, comprised of a combination of ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) and ACCS IMGLE Nurse, based on specific needs of PS.
• Oversees service delivery to all assigned PS, including participation in services, treatment and support skills planning and implementation of recovery goals, peer and family support, readiness for discharge, and support through service and life transitions, including acute care and housing transitions.
• Develops and delivers individualized, life stage appropriate services and supports to PS, including young adults and seniors.
• Collaborates with Team members to deliver specific recovery, community, addictions, health, family or other treatment or support services needed for Treatment Plan success for PS.
• Promotes healthcare and employment services access for PS.
• Promotes engagement, safe housing, community tenure, achievement of greater self-sufficiency and successful completion of service for all PS.
• Sets and directs IMGLE staff to deliver specific skills training and supports needed for Treatment Plan success for PS.
• Trains and directs the Program Director, and Residential Counselors of each assigned IMGLE to deliver interventions needed for Treatment Plan success, for PS residing in IMGLE.
• Performs, trains, supervises, mentors, and models the use of best practices and evidence-based clinical and recovery oriented interventions for PS, including Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment support; Screening; Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP); Seeking Safety and Cognitive Behavioral interventions.
• Works with ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) to manage the site’s rehab/clinical systems and procedures, including planning and implementing regulations and requirements, quality improvement initiatives, and intakes and discharges.
• Supports competency-based training for all staff to achieve successful treatment outcomes for PS.
• Supports staff’s use of trauma informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, culturally competent and strengths-based approaches and skills training techniques in their work.
• Works with ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) to actively assist PS during care transitions and life stage transitions.
• Works with PS to develop Safety Plans and/or Crisis Prevention and Response Plans.
• Reviews and updates Safety Plans and/or Crisis Prevention and Response Plans when there are changes in protective factors or a PS strengths and preferences, after care transitions, and at the annual treatment plan review, at a minimum.
• Interfaces with Emergency Services as needed, in conjunction with BH CP, One Care, or DMH Case Management.
• Interfaces with Care Coordination entities, as needed.
• Conducts Face-to-Face visit within 48 hours of a PS return to the community after Emergency Department visit, arrest, incarceration, homelessness, hospitalization, etc.
• Assists staff in the delivery of the Treatment Plans and check on progress, directly observing them performing interventions realted to PS Treatment Plans.
• Receives regularly scheduled role-based clinical supervision from ACCS Clinical Program Director (IMGLE) and or designee.
• Provides on-call clinical coverage, as scheduled.
• Participates as member of the LPHA/Clinician Community of Practice Workgroup led by the Clinical Directors for continuous professional role competency development, mentoring, and learning.

Qualifications

• Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by ACCS to live, work, have meaningful relationships, and receive the clinical treatment, resources, and supports needed to thrive in their community of choice.
• Knowledge of clinical treatment principles and modalities, best practices and evidence-based practices, including Motivational Interviewing; Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment; Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT); Housing First; Stages of Change; Seeking Safety and Cognitive Behavioral interventions.
• Knowledge of engagement strategies.
• Knowledge of crisis prevention, crisis intervention, and risk management strategies.
• Knowledge of recovery-oriented, person-centered and strengths-based values and principles and modalities, and knowledge of Peer Support principles and evidence-based practices, including the ethical standards of Certified Peer Specialists and Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), empowerment and self-advocacy techniques.
• Knowledge of the effects of prejudice including internalized negative attitudes about oneself, discrimination, and oppression of people with psychiatric disorders, and the effects of poverty.
• Sensitivity to the cultural, religious, ethnic, disability, and gender issues of PS.
• Knowledge of human, legal, and civil rights of PS.
• Knowledge of emergency services and acute care systems.
• Knowledge of community based mental health, health care, care coordination, and other services and resources available to PS.
• Knowledge of health risks of psychiatric disability.
• Ability to formulate effective Treatment Plans, and to train paraprofessional staff to implement aspects of the plan.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other Team members to address the needs of PS in the Treatment Plan.
• Ability to form supportive, trusting relationships with PS.
• Knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices.
• Knowledge and use of different communication and learning styles.
• Ability to make independent judgments and decisions.
• Ability to work in a professional and confidential capacity.
• Knowledge of personal computer applications and equipment.
• Extensive knowledge of documentation standards and requirements.

Additional Certifications

• CPR required within first two weeks of hire.
• First Aid required within two weeks of hire.
• MAT required within 150 days of hire.