Clinician (licensed or unlicensed)

Founded in 1965, Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health care company dedicated to making a difference for our clients, the community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health services to adults with serious mental illness. We partner with public sector entities and behavioral health organizations and have over 125 programs and over 3,680 employees across the country. And we're growing all the time! When you work at Telecare, you help to empower thousands of individuals every day in their journeys of recovery. 

Telecare’s Carmen Lane is a 12 bed Crisis Residential Treatment Center with a forensic focus located in Santa Maria, California. This program serves adult residents of Santa Barbara County with justice-involved backgrounds who require crisis support to avoid hospitalization, incarceration, or both.  Residents may be discharging from a hospital, forensic facility, or long-term locked facility and need step-down care to transition to community living. The program will provide recovery-focused learning environment where residents have opportunity to improve symptom self-management, community living and interpersonal skills, and make lasting connections to family and community supports. 

Employment Status: Short-Hour .4 (2 days/week) Full-Time positions available also

Shift:  Days

Days: Saturday & Sunday

Minimum Compensation: $26.32 Hourly

Top of 1st Quartile: $29.42 Hourly

The Clinician provides mental health support services to members served and their families at the program. The Clinician also assists in the coordination of all mental health support services provided by the Team. This includes coordinating and collaborating with team members and outside agencies such as, the Conservator’s Office, Public Guardian’s Office, Probation Department, County Behavioral Health Services, and housing and inpatient providers.

Required:

• One (1) year of direct service experience with mentally ill individuals

• A Master’s Degree in Social Work or related field

• Current licensure or registration as an intern for MFT, MSW, LPCC, etc

• Must be at least 18 years of age

• Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment

• All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification. Position requires driving, valid driver’s license, a motor vehicle clearance, and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory, contractual, or local requirements may apply.

• Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values and beliefs in everyday language and contact with internal and external stakeholders.

• Makes use of management practices that include empowerment of staff, the provision of clear and concise expectations regarding duties assigned to employees, frequent feedback focusing on both positive and problematic aspects of work performance and other management practices that are consistent with Continuous Quality Improvement

• Recommends and establishes general policies, structures and controls

• Collaborates with Program Director/Administrator to ensure program offers individuals served increasing opportunities for employment, social integration and independent living

• Maintains and participates actively in program activities

• Participates in the program evaluation process, utilizing results to identify needs, establish goals and directions for future planning

• Attends and oversees the monthly Utilization Review process

• Supervises and trains staff to complete service plans and risk assessments; oversees service planning and risk assessment for all clients of the program

• Oversees all referrals to the Program

• Provides safe, effective and efficient implementation of direct care in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of care; provides direct services to members served, families and community supports of members served

• Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with members served

• Attends and participates in primary therapy, community meetings, family therapy, and groups

• Participates as a team member and provides input via reporting observations, concerns and asking appropriate questions

• Reviews and implements members served service plans

• Actively facilitates and participates in team meetings and service planning meetings

• Provides leadership in facilitating the team process

• Provides 24 on-call (cell phone) coverage as needed

• Provides education/training to other team members as necessary

• Assures that members served know and understand their legal status and rights

• Provides weekend/on-call service/back-up and crisis intervention

• Completes the Monthly Status Report to the County

• Ensures all clinical issues are addressed around hospitalization of members served

• Assists with Service Coordination Plan, including:

o Making appropriate referrals for placement, case management and aftercare services, as assigned.

o Coordinating with the Office Coordinator to assure that members served benefits and finance are in order, as assigned

o Developing and maintaining an awareness of community resources

• Acts as Custodian of Records; determining best practices re confidentiality etc.

• Must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training

Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at the discretion of management.

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