CCBHC Evaluation & Treatment Planning Specialist

About the role

Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. Founded in 1857, MFS has been the engine of change that empowers families to reach their greatest potential and positively impact their communities.

Essential Job Functions

• Performs comprehensive, in-depth assessment and clinical formulation, development of accurate diagnosis and strengths-based treatment plans for CCBHC services.
• Utilizes the Illinois Medicaid Comprehensive Assessment of Needs and Strengths (IM+CANS) to document clinical needs and strengths.
• Uses ASAM Criteria to evaluate clients across six specific dimensions, including withdrawal potential, biomedical conditions, and recovery environment.
• Facilitates the development of initial and updated treatment plans in collaboration with the client and their support system.
• Uses standardized criteria (e.g., ASAM for addiction) to determine the appropriate intensity of services.
• Performs open access as assigned.
• Collaborates with a multidisciplinary team, including Peer Support Specialists and medical staff to ensure seamless transitions and "warm handoffs."
• Provides crisis intervention, and case management services, adhering to CCBHC and MRO/Medicaid rehabilitation service models.
• Provides therapeutic interventions, advocacy, skill-building, and related services.
• Learns and utilizes agency and community resources.
• Affords assessments of community conditions that affect clients to identify resource gaps and problems.
• Works with multidisciplinary professionals including psychiatrists, nurses and community agencies to provide a continuum of coordinated care to meet the complex needs of clients.
• May serve on regional or agency-wide committees.
• Maintains timely and accurate client records and any necessary agency and CCBHC required reporting.
• Participates in agency and site based required meetings and trainings.
• Works effectively with diverse staff and service population.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated superior skills with families or communities.
• Demonstrated competence in consultation, teaching, or writing.
• Requires mobility to work in the community with assigned caseload.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related behavioral science field from an accredited college or university, required.
• Eligible or a Licensed Social Worker (LSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), required.
• Must obtain and maintain IM+CANS certification, required.
• Must attend at least one training relative to the application of ASAM Criteria within the first six months of employment, required.
• Final salary will be determined based on years of experience, licensure level, and relevant credentials, required.
• 2+ years of post-graduate social work experience at an intermediate skill level, preferred.
• Experience with ASAM Criteria, preferred.
• Experience with CADC or working with clients experiencing substance use, preferred.
• Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Illinois, preferred.
• IM+CANS certification, preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Satisfactorily pass all relevant screening and criminal background checks.

Physical Demands

• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch.
• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal.

Benefits

Metropolitan Family Services offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical Coverage, Dental Coverage, Vision Coverage, contributions to HSA accounts, free Teladoc services, and a 401K plan with a 4% employer match.