Therapist - Therapeutic Group Home

About the role

The Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, or 'Clearinghouse', helps ensure that caregivers, health workers, and educators meet Level 2 background screening standards before they can work with children, seniors, or other vulnerable groups.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to regulatory bodies and licensing rules, guidelines and established protocols to carry out all duties required by contract, licensure, accreditation, and certification relative to agency, program, service assignment and agency designated model for treating persons with co-occurring mental and substance disorders.
• Assess clients for admission into treatment services and admit new clients, insuring proper documentation and that rules/requirements of program are explained.
• Provide clinical services including, but not limited to individual, group and family therapy, assessments, develop, monitor and update treatment plan, and discharge planning, gives consultation to parents, and maintains professional communication with referral sources.
• Observe clients for behavioral changes and progress in treatment and engages clients to talk about their mental illness and substance abuse, communicates empathically with clients regarding addiction, mental illness, medications and recovery, communicates with clients to promote understanding of their illness/illnesses and hope for recovery.
• Conduct face to face interviews with clients to develop individual behavioral health or treatment plans and reviews individual behavioral health treatment plan prior to physician review and authorization.
• Maintain documentation, clinical chart of assigned clients and management of records.
• Participates in peer review and provides direction and professional development as appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master's degree in social work, counseling, psychology or other human services field.
• One (1) year of experience professional clinical work.
• Valid Florida Driver License.
• Eligibility status, as determined by Level 2 background screening in accordance with Florida Statutes, Chapter 435 and/or Local Law.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to deadlines.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at desk and working on a computer screen.
• Ability to lift up to 15 pounds at a time.

Qualifications

ACTS is a drug-free workplace, and all applicants are subject to pre-employment drug screening and adherence to all related policies throughout employment. ACTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. ACTS, Inc. participates in the federal government's E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of all newly hired employees and most existing employees through an electronic database maintained by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. For all new hires, the E-Verify process is completed in conjunction with the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification on or before the first day of work. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates. For up-to-date information on E-Verify, go to www.uscis.gov and click on 'E-Verify' located near the bottom of the page.