What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinician, Day Shift Crisis Residential Treatment Program (ACSW/AMFT) position at Bay Area Community Services?
We are currently hiring Clinical Care Coordinators for our Amber Crisis Residential Treatment (CRT) program in Oakland, a 12-bed voluntary-only CRT whose purpose will be to assess individuals who are having a mental health crisis and are in need of assessment, stabilization, and brief treatment.The Amber House CRT has up to 16-beds for individuals in crisis who do not meet medical necessity criteria for hospitalization and would benefit from treatment and supportive programming.
Schedule: Sunday - Thursday 9 am - 5:30 pm
CRISIS CLINICIAN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Delivery of individual, family, group counseling, individual rehabilitation, and case management/brokerage for individuals within the caseload as assigned.
- Utilize Evidence-Based Practice for the designated population/program to assure high-quality results and intended impact.
- Assess an individual’s risk status including risk-based symptoms, substance use, environment, physical conditions, etc, and intervene appropriately.
- Creating a service plan that aims at an individual getting better/healthy and accomplishing service goals that are person-centered and belong to the client.
- Outreach and progressive engagement and reporting disengagement to the team immediately. Responsible for working with the outreach team and determining when to disenroll individuals based on program protocols.
- Assessment, screening referrals, service planning, community planning, and benefits coordination support wellness and recovery principles.
- Documents and maintains all data collection, reporting, and charting records in accordance with BACS and other relevant county regulatory policies/agencies.
- Participates in supervision, staff meetings, consultation, travel, crisis/emergency coverage, weekend coverage, as well as, agency-wide meetings and training, as required by the manager.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- ASW, AMFT, or APCC with current BBS registration; and 1 year of social service experience
- LCSW, LMFT, or LPCC with current BBS registration; and 1 year of social service experience
Benefits/Perks
- Highly competitive compensation $45/hr (equivalent to $93,500 annually) ASW or AMFT, $104,000 exmpt for LCSW/LMFT.
- 3% wage differential for tested competency in threshold languages for Alameda county (Chinese, Cantonese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Farsi, Cambodian and Tagalog)
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and life insurance coverage options for employees, plus a vision reimbursement program. Children’s healthcare coverage is available for as little as $25/month. Average employer-paid benefit value: approximately $913/month per enrolled individual. BACS contributions apply to company-sponsored plans only.
- 31 days PTO
- Clinical supervision hours towards licensure
- 403b plan.
- Free iPhone with unlimited data for personal/professional use laptop for easy mobility*
* Most direct service positions
ABOUT BACS
Bay Area Community Services is a CARF accredited non-profit, community-based agency celebrating 70 years of serving Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento and Solano Counties by providing mental health and social services. BACS’ mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing whatever it takes. We are proud to be one of the leading agencies producing real outcomes to tough social problems. BACS owes its reputation as an innovator to our innovative and entrepreneurial staff. We are seeking individuals who want to transform clinical practice to be client-centered and effective in the field and who want to lead empowered teams to meet goals.
BAY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Salary : $93,500