Mental Health Clinician - Family Services

• Conducts bio-psychosocial assessment of consumers, conducting interviews and conferring with other team members, make clinical diagnoses, determining appropriate level of care, and develop family driven, youth guided treatment plans.
• Provides individual, group, conjoint, and family psychotherapy to provide the most appropriate and effective treatment response for consumers, based on diagnoses and treatment plans.
• Employs evidence-based and best practices to treat target population, adhering to principles of recovery, community integration, and independence.
• Identifies and establishes working relationships with community resources for consumers and families, acting as liaison between families and resources participating in treatment plans as needed.
• May provide crisis intervention, assessing the immediate danger of the individual to self and/or others, and coordinate with the Crisis Team for placement of individual into crisis facility or psychiatric inpatient unit. May coordinate with police and other community service providers.
• Participates in the development of family driven-youth guided treatment plan for youth and their families and ensures that consumers receive services in compliance with their respective plans.
• Collaborates with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners in medication reviews and presents case data with respect to consumer behavior and affect to properly manage consumer psychotropic medication regimens.
• Provides case management services for consumers and families, developing treatment options, determining appropriate service delivery agencies, monitoring client progress, and evaluating and modifying treatment plan as needed.
• Maintains case documentation and ensures the security and integrity of private health information in compliance with the provisions of HIPAA, Ottawa County, and CMH policies and procedures.
• Provides information about behavioral health services, as needed, to community partners.
• Serves as an advocate for greater access to affordable, quality behavioral health care for the target population.
• Collaborates efficiently and effectively with other community agencies. This may include written or verbal summaries of CMHOC services or consumer response to services, and testifying in court, if so ordered.
• May provided clinical supervision if working collaboratively with an intern.
• Helps support an equitable, safe, diverse and inclusive workplace.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Working knowledge of the principles and practices of clinical assessment and diagnosis, and the DSM criteria.
• Working knowledge of evidence-based and best practices appropriate to target population, including the principles of recovery, community integration, and independence.
• Working knowledge of the principles and practices of social work, counseling and/or psychology.
• Develop knowledge of the Medicaid Manual for Service Providers.
• Working knowledge of professional standards of practice and ethics.
• Working knowledge of the principles and practices of medical record documentation and medical records management.
• Good working knowledge of program assessment and quality assurance principles, practices, protocols, and instruments.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including verbal and written communication skills.
• Computer literacy and working knowledge of word-processing, spreadsheet, database, and other necessary software programs.
• Shows willingness to learn and use new skills and takes regular advantage of internal and external training and staff development opportunities and resources.
• Demonstrates competence in abilities to link an individual to appropriate resources.
• Demonstrates and/or willingness to learn assessment competencies in the following areas: family systems, including relationship dynamics between family members, daily activity needs, and individual growth and development (including physical, emotional, cognitive, educational, nutritional, and social development).

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