ACCS Clinician

The ACCS Licensed Rehabilitation Clinician at Hearth provides clinical support including screening, assessment, brief counseling, and case management services to older, formerly homeless or at-risk elders receiving services through the Department of Mental Health.

Major Functions:

• Compliance with all ACCS program requirements and documentation as outlined by the Department of Mental Health.
• Provides behavioral health crisis intervention to tenants.
• Oversight of professional and paraprofessional staff in the implementation of DMH ACCS rehab planning process and documentation.
• Assists staff in handling crisis intervention and prevention.
• Supervises MSW intern(s).

Duties and Responsibilities:

A. Screening and Assessment

• Assists in screening prospective tenants for program eligibility.
• Completes bio-psychosocial evaluations and assessments for each tenant, assessing health and mental health needs, family relationships, social skills and system supports.
• Completes and oversees rehab planning for each CBFS tenant and collaborates with nursing and other staff to ensure care coordination.

B. Tenant Case Management Oversight

1. Oversees program staff in the case management of CBFS requirements and documentation

(a) Collaborating and consulting with individual service providers,

(b) Creating, updating and monitoring compliance with CBFS documentation.

(c) Work with pertinent contract providers to ensure the provision of appropriate case management for their clients in residence and to ensure compliance with contractual agreements.

2. Provides consultation to residential staff in making appropriate referrals and follow-up for services such as mental health, substance abuse, legal, financial, and obtaining/maintaining public benefits (Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, SSDI, and food stamps).

3. Coordinates and facilitates case management meetings as needed for purposes of case management review and training.

4. Participates as member of multi-disciplinary team as needed on case management issues.

5. Provides consultation to residential staff in family or other meetings when necessary.

6. Accompanies tenants to appointments if necessary for specific clinical reasons.

C. Training

• Coordinates and facilitates, with input from Director of Behavioral Health, Director of Health Services and Program Site Manager, training to program staff as necessary on topics including, but not limited to the following:
• Confidentiality of tenant/client records and procedures/protocols for ensuring confidentiality.
• Assessment, service planning, and progress noting best practices in conjunction with contractual obligations (e.g. DMH requirements).
• General charting protocols and practices.
• Crisis prevention and intervention techniques, protocols and procedures related to non-medical situations.
• General protocols for appropriate maintenance of tenant/client and staff/volunteer barriers and boundaries.
• Coordinates as necessary with other departments (e.g. Health Services) when training topics involve and/or affect the work of other multi-disciplinary staff.

D. Crisis Intervention and Prevention

• Provides ongoing consultation and assessment to program staff in addressing tenant/client issues of potential risk.
• Provides consultation and oversight if necessary during crisis situations. Involves the management of interactions with outside agencies and providers as well as the oversight of appropriate follow-up.
• Coordinates with other members of multi-disciplinary teams as necessary (e.g. nursing) in the facilitation of changes in program support and/or care plans.
• Shares nights and weekend on-call coverage as required on a rotating basis with other site staff.
• Participates as necessary in staff and tenant training on fire safety and other safety protocols.

E. Other

• Participates as regular member of site team in and attends required meetings.
• Participates on multi-disciplinary teams as required for the purposes of developing agencies policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Attends trainings at Vinfen as necessary regarding CBFS documentation protocols.
• Attends DHM Rehab Options Review meetings as necessary.
• Performs other duties as necessary in the maintenance of quality case management practices at the site.

Required Skills, Abilities and Knowledge:

• Able to understand and relate to specific and general ideas, to the concepts behind these ideas, and to comprehend the underlying theories and philosophies.
• Able to communicate specific and general concepts verbally, by phone or in person, using varying levels of vocabulary.
• Able to communicate specific and general concepts in written work using memos, checklists, simple sentences, paragraphs and/or full reports.
• Able to lead, organize, and delegate tasks on a program level.
• Ability to work with individuals and families from diverse ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.
• Able to constantly concentrate on minimal to fine detail with varying degrees of interruption.
• Able to constantly attend to one or more task/function(s) for varying amounts of time.
• Able to remember various tasks/assignments for periods of time ranging from several hours to months.
• Able to remember multiple tasks/assignments given to self and others during varied periods of time.
• This position is psychologically demanding and requires a person who is able to be flexible and maintain therapeutic boundaries under extreme stress.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to infrequently push, pull and lift objects or equivalent weights of no more than 20 lbs.
• Able to constantly perform simple and complex motor skills such as standing, walking, bending, reaching, writing, etc.
• Able to frequently perform tasks which require hand to eye coordination: locking and unlocking doors, opening envelopes, etc.
• Able to stand and walk for prolonged periods of time.
• Constantly able to read small type and handwriting with or without corrective lenses.
• Constantly able to hear normal sounds with some background of noise as in answering phones, intercom; to distinguish sounds such as voice patterns.
• Able to vocalize and communicate verbally with others.

Other Requirements:

• Able to travel between home site in Dorchester and nearby Hearth site in Jamaica Plain.

Schedule: Full time, M-F, 40hrs/week

Benefits: Hearth offers a generous benefits package including:

• BCBS HMO plan
• Dental plan
• Paid Short-term disability and Long-term disability coverage
• Paid Life Insurance of $50,000
• Matching 401K plan - 3% match
• Flexible Spending Plans
• Generous Earned Time Benefit

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $57,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Medical specialties:

• Geriatrics

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
All employees are required to be fully vaccinated including the appropriate booster (s) when eligible. All employees and residents are required to wear masks and social distance. Emphasis is also on increased levels of sanitation.

Experience:

• Clinical counseling: 2 years (Preferred)
• Aging issues counseling: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Massachusetts LCSW/LICSW/LMHC (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations