CRISIS PES - CLINICAL - LMSW

DeKalb Community Service Board (CSB) is an innovative, community-based behavioral health and developmental disabilities services organization located in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, offering a full range of mental health services, developmental disabilities programs and substance abuse treatment to more than 11,000 citizens annually who are uninsured and underinsured.
 
As a public, not-for-profit organization, the DeKalb CSB operates more than 20 locations in DeKalb County with a diverse workforce of more than 500 direct-care and support staff.

Our staff of physicians, nurses, clinicians and support personnel is dedicated to helping our clients and their families recover from these debilitating disabilities and resume productive lives. We strive to provide the highest quality, evidence-based services in the least restrictive settings, and we envision a community in which disabilities no longer limit potential. DeKalb CSB is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Read more on our recent CARF accreditation here. 

 Job Summary

 Under general supervision, assess, screens, and counsels clients in an intensive outpatient mental health and/or substance abuse program to enhance, meet, or restore a client’s functioning capacity. Works with a multi-disciplinary team that provides individual and group psychotherapy and psychoeducation to adult mental health and substance abuse clients. Provides case management and develops client-driven treatment plans. Provides counseling/therapy to clients requiring complex intervention, including those who are homicidal, suicidal, or exhibit life-threatening behaviors, determines necessity for involuntary commitment and may partake in executing orders of involuntary commitment. Complete assessments, manage a case load, complete treatment plans and obtain authorization for services.

DUTIES & RSPONSIBILITIES:

Assessments

•Performs thorough bio psychosocial assessment of the less complex to more complex clients and documents the assessment within agency guidelines 

•Utilizes information from multiple sources as appropriate in the formulation of client driven treatment planning

•Assess and documents responses to interventions and modifies intervention as needed

•May utilize specific assessment tools regularly in evaluation of the client

•Demonstrates strong clinical judgement in assessments, application of diagnostic criteria, clinical formulations, and sound triage decisions

•Seeks clinical supervision as necessary

•Creates therapeutic relationship

 

Advanced Therapeutic Counseling

•Creates therapeutic relationship as appropriate with consumers and families/significant others

•Conducts individual, family, group counseling/therapy, and educational sessions using evidence based intervention

•Demonstrates clinical knowledge in mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorder treatment

•Demonstrates documented clinical proficiency (through education, training, or experience) in client engagement, interviewing, and recording

•May utilize advanced certification in specialty in counseling the consumer and others

 

Counsels Individuals, Groups, and Significant Others

•Creates therapeutic relationship as appropriate with consumers and families/significant others

•Conducts individual, family, group counseling/therapy, and educational sessions using evidence based interventions

•Demonstrates clinical knowledge in mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorder treatment

•Demonstrates documented clinical proficiency (through education, training or experience) in client engagement, interviewing and recording

 

Develops and Participates in Complex Case Management/Care Planning

•Creates, communicates and coordinates treatment plan of the more complex consumer

•Demonstrates expertise in care/planning through objectives, goals, and specificity of plan

•Serves as resources to staff in demonstration of up-to-date knowledge of DCSB, community, regional, and state resources

•Assist treatment team in problem solving regarding needed resources for complex consumers

•Insures timely communication with providers through proper exchange of written and verbal communication per policy and procedure

•Document referrals, discharges, and resources or other issues for problem resolution and/or utilization as required in agency policy

•May serve as a liaison in community resource activities

 

Professional

•Maintain licensure/certification

•Actively participates in clinical supervision

•Actively engages in behavioral health educational initiatives

•Seeks continuing education to meet current clinical needs

 

SKILL, COMPETENCY AND EDUCATION AND/OR LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS:

Current licensure as a LCSW, LMSW, or LPC by the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists is required. Demonstrates competency in using evidenced based treatments for mental illness and addiction. The employee must be computer efficient and have the ability to multi-task. The employees must demonstrate initiative, flexibility, and professionalism.

 

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in a residential or outpatient setting with mental health or substance abuse programs. Experience working with Adults, children, adolescents and veterans. Experience conducting groups counseling/therapy services.

  

WORK SCHEDULE:

Monday - Friday 11:30pm - 8:15am 

Tuesday - Saturday 2:45pm - 11:30pm

Required to work 2-3 holidays per year

 

Pre-employment drug screening may be required. Selected applicant will be subject of an FBI Criminal History Record Check, and the applicant has the right to challenge the contents of their Criminal History Record Information, should they choose to do so.  This employer participates in E-Verify.

 

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Claratel CSB is an equal opportunity employer regarding disability under VEVRRA and ADA