Lead Clinician, MA

Duties And Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing person-centered, strength-based, trauma-informed care
• Ensures that clients receive effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with client's cultural beliefs and practices and preferred language
• Provides ongoing assessment of client's symptoms and response to treatment. Makes appropriate changes in Community Service Plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior, which puts clients at risk
• When designated by the team leader, provides clinical supervision to the team
• As a recruiting practice, participates in team interviews
• Supervises and adheres to clinical internships
• Participation in Department of Mental Health contract monitoring meetings
• Along with the team, on an ongoing basis, reviews the required outcome measures to evaluate community tenure and independence
• Reviews the Tool for Measurement of Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT)
• Provides service coordination for an assigned group of clients, including coordination and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assumes primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising the overall Community Service Plan in collaboration with the client and ITT; provides therapy utilizing evidence-based practices (i.e., CBT-P, CBT, DBT, CAMS, MI), symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the Community Service Plan as clients' needs change; educates and supports clients' families, and advocates for clients rights and preferences
• With the team, on an ongoing basis, completes the Comprehensive Assessment (within 30 days of admission) as an engagement tool and as a way to understand and respect the client's views of the ways mental illness impacts their life and how they want to be supported in their process of recovery
• Utilizes evidence-based assessment tools that support matching a client's needs to their services
• In partnership with the client and ITT, develops the Community Service Plan within seven days of the team finalizing the comprehensive assessment
• Able to provide de-escalation techniques to aid the client(s) in managing a crisis, providing intervention to decrease risk, manage symptoms, and maintain safety
• Maintains the electronic card-ex
• Fully participates as a team member during the daily organizational meeting, offering clinical input and guidance as necessary
• Performs shift management
• Provides on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime hours and serves as a backup to evening and weekend staff
• Documents client progress, activities, and outreaches in the Electronic Health Record
• Practice engagement skills across the adult lifespan
• Support: provide practical help and support, advocacy, coordination, problem-solving, training, and supervision to help clients obtain the necessities of daily living; assist clients in finding and maintaining safe housing, coaches clients to learn and carry out ADLs, assist and support clients to perform household activities, including house cleaning and laundry, teach money-management skills, nutrition education, meal planning, grocery shopping, access transportation, help clients to have and efficiently use primary care, dentist, and other medical specialist, support clients with structuring their time (community resources, social and leisure activities, hobbies etc.)
• Ongoing assessment, symptom education, direct clinical services
• Awareness of and offers a range of valuable community activities and linkages that support the client's Community Service Plan
• Performs other duties as assigned

Pre-Employment Education/Experience

• Licensed in the State of Massachusetts as an LCSW, LICSW, or LMHC
• 3+ years in leadership, management role, experience in behavioral healthcare, and working with individuals with mental health conditions preferred
• Preference will be given to candidates that meet the cultural and linguistic needs of the geographic area.