FACT Therapist (Leon)

About the role

Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team dedicated to delivering intensive community-based support to the severely and persistently mentally ill adult population. The purpose of the FACT Therapist is to be a part of the multidisciplinary treatment team designed to help individuals maintain stable functioning in the community as the primary provider of community based mental health treatment, rehabilitation, self-management counseling, integrated dual disorder treatment.

Responsibilities

• Conducts comprehensive mental health assessments and ongoing assessments of persons served mental illness, symptoms, status, and response to treatment
• Communicates client's mental health status and history to the FACT team and helps the team to determine level of care based on client's individual needs
• Completes initial assessment for assigned clients in collaboration with the team within 60 days and updates required assessments in accordance with established guidelines
• Collects collateral information (i.e. family and other providers, with appropriate consent) to complete thorough assessments of client needs
• Finalizes all documents in Avatar and turns in all assessments within 48 hours
• Schedules Individualized Treatment Team (ITT) meetings a month in advance of service plan expiring for assigned clients
• Offers input and feedback (i.e. new issues, client response to treatment, client's progress/lack of progress on service plan) to review clients' progress and employment goals for the treatment plan with each client
• Assists clients on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community
• Develops an understanding and identification of symptoms, lessens distress, improves role functioning, and increases participation in and satisfaction with treatment and rehabilitative services through the utilization of "here and now" strategies and practical problem solving
• Assists clients in alleviating and managing symptoms and in promoting personal growth and development by establishing causality, constructing a personal history, and assisting clients in adapting to or coming to terms with having mental illness and its effects in daily life
• Provides EBP psychotherapeutic treatment
• Provides individual supportive skills modeling and development (e.g., problem solving, role-playing, modeling and support), social skills development, and assertiveness training to increase the social and interpersonal activities in community settings for persons served (e.g., plan, structure, and prompt social and leisure-time activities on evenings, weekends and holidays; and provide side-by-side support and coaching to help persons served to socialize)
• Develops individualized Client Service Plans (CSP) in partnership with the client and the client's guardian (if applicable), especially with addressing therapeutic treatment
• Develops CSP's that include measurable goals and objectives derived from the client's assessment and identifies time frames for achievement on goals which are signed and dated by the client and client's guardian, if applicable
• Assists with the implementation of the service plan, and follows-up with the client's services to determine the status and the effectiveness of CSP towards enhancing the client's inclusion in the community and autonomy
• Updates CSPs at least every 6 months
• Makes appropriate changes in CSP to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put persons served at risk (e.g., suicidality, hospitalizations, relapse)
• CSP must incorporate items obtained using enhancement funds and explain how it promotes client's recovery goals
• Documents progress of persons served to maintain a permanent record of individual activity per established methods and procedures
• Documentation must be finalized in Avatar within 48 hours from the time the services were rendered
• Progress notes must be detailed and clearly reflect how the staff's efforts are linked to the services and goals in the client's service plan and the client's progress or lack of progress relative to the service plan

Core services

• Engagement and mental health assessments
• Utilization of a variety of mental health therapy modalities and treatment strategies
• Development and support of goal development and attainment
• Coaching and modeling of skills to improve daily living and overall functioning
• Advocacy and support in conjunction with team and community resources

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Long term disability
• Paid time off