Duties and Responsibilities (These duties are a general summary and are not all inclusive):

• Obtains all information needed to, in collaboration with the person served or LAR, develop a clinical formulation consistent with professionally recognized theory.
• Monitors mental and functional status and informs appropriate staff, updates clinical data within one week of significant status changes.
• Provides individual therapy and care coordination services to all persons served assigned to caseload.
• Plans and leads or co-leads a wide range of groups, as assigned, including but not limited to, skills training, psychoeducation, and recovery-oriented modalities specifically designed to treat adults who carry diagnoses of SMI.
• Orients clients to the structure of the treatment modality and groups.
• Provides weekly group supervision to trainees regarding the content and management of the specific treatment modality.
• Collaborates with assigned clients and the multidisciplinary treatment team around the development of person-centered, recovery-oriented treatment and crisis/risk management plans that behaviorally describe objectives and define frequency and intensity of interventions.
• Contributes clinical perspectives in all team meetings and is available to team colleagues for the purpose of emergency/planned client coverage.
• Responsible for implementing interventions to meet clients’ needs and offer support in crisis situations.
• Maintains regular contact with other DMH site representatives, case managers, ACCS Teams, Residences, medical providers, family members, and others to ensure comprehensive care coordination.
• Meets all requirements as a Mandated Reporter.
• Follows agency risk mitigation policies and procedures with respect to reporting any significant event/incident and ensures the completion of all associated required documentation.
• Responsible for ensuring that all documentation for assigned individual clients is completed in a timely fashion in accordance with billing, DMH standards, policies, and procedures, meeting 100% of DMH, MMHC and third-party legal requirements for quality assurance and utilization review.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the principles of physiological, psychological, and emotional growth and development, uses of diagnostic procedures and interviewing and problem-solving techniques.
• Experience with psychotherapies and principles of psychosocial rehabilitation
• Ability to understand and apply rules, regulations, and laws governing agency and unit operations, maintain accurate records, and follow and give clear and precise oral and written instructions.
• Capacity to lead and interpret documents such as physician’s orders and treatment plans, participate in a multi-disciplinary health care team and exercise sound judgment, make decisions and act quickly in emergency situations.
• Adept at establishing rapport and deal effectively with persons from diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, motivating clients to participate in individual treatment plans.
• Ability to treat and interact with persons who are under physical/emotional stress.
• Able to assess, analyze, draw conclusions, and determine the applicability of clinical data in order to make and/or take appropriate actions, recommendations, or referrals.
• Ability to supervise and evaluate staff and trainees.
• Skilled in interviewing clients.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of laws, regulations, policies and procedures governing agency and unit.
• Knowledge of the types and uses of agency and unit forms.
• Understanding of public and private community-based resources for clients.
• Knowledge of safety practices and procedures followed by agency and unit.
• Ability to direct a multidisciplinary health care team.

About the Massachusetts Mental Health Center:

The Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) is a psychiatric facility at 75 Fenwood Road in the Longwood Medical area of Boston, Massachusetts. In its new state of the art facility, MMHC offers a vast range of community mental health services and remains one of the most successful and academic community mental health programs in the country.

DMH Mission Statement:

The Department of Mental Health assures and provides access to services and supports to meet the mental health needs of individuals of all ages, enabling them to live, work and participate in their communities. The Department establishes standards to ensure effective and culturally competent care to promote recovery. The Department sets policy, promotes self-determination, protects human rights and supports mental health training and research.

Pre-Offer Process:

A criminal background check will be completed on the recommended candidate as required by the regulations set forth by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services prior to the candidate being hired. For more information, please visit http://www.mass.gov/hhs/cori

Education, licensure and certifications will be verified in accordance with the Human Resources Division’s Hiring Guidelines.

Education and license/certification information provided by the selected candidate(s) is subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law and may be published on the Commonwealth’s website.

If you require assistance with the application/interview process and would like to request an ADA accommodation, please click on the link and complete the ADA Reasonable Accommodation Request Form.

For questions regarding this requisition, please contact the Executive Office of Health and Human Services Human Resources at 1-800- 510-4122 Ext. #4

• Current and valid licensure as a Licensed Certified Social Worker or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Social Work.