Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryMental & Behavioral Health
About the job
Responsibilities
Interview individuals to obtain information about clinical history for psychosocial assessments.
Complete initial biopsychosocial assessments.
Provide linkage, referrals, and ongoing case-management monitoring for individuals requiring long-term case-management support.
Provide services that may include individual, group, and family therapy; psychosocial assessments; mental-status examinations; diagnosis; and care management.
Refer individuals for, link them to, or, when a psychologist, administer psychological tests, personality inventories, and intelligence quotient tests; ensure results are integrated into the individual plan of service.
Plan and administer therapeutic treatment or interventions to assist individuals in controlling disorders and other problems, using methods and techniques consistent with professional best practices and ethical conduct.
Change the method and degree of therapy when indicated by individual reactions.
Consult with the treatment team about plans of service and amend plans as recommended.
Provide consultation, reporting, coordination, and referrals to agency staff and programs, community organizations, or external health-care professionals as clinically appropriate.
Measure individual clinical outcomes and satisfaction as directed.
Maintain workload as established in policy.
Participate in community education activities, staff training and in-service activities, and continuing professional development as directed.
Ensure case records comply with Northpointe policies and other regulatory requirements.
Conduct clinical peer reviews of assessments resulting in denial of Community Mental Health services, including second-opinion assessments.
Ensure a plan of service is developed, implemented, reviewed, and regularly updated for each individual, with the individual's input.
Provide contacts as needed and document them in the individual's record within 24 hours.
Assist individuals with financial-assistance applications, including SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, G.A., and M.A., when necessary.
Make SSI level-of-care determinations when authorized through acquired placement responsibility, and negotiate with the Social Security Administration to arrange processing of SSI applications.
Provide OBRA assessments upon request following training.
Northpointe is a Community Mental Health (CMH) organization providing services to individuals with serious mental illness, emotional disturbance, substance abuse disorders, and intellectual/developmental disabilities across Iron, Dickinson, and Menominee counties in the UP of Michigan. Northpointe itself was established in 1995 but has roots as a CMH dating back to 1964. Our presence can be found through remote emergency services, in school and home-based programs, and in clinical and residential home settings.
Job Purpose
We are looking for a passionate, driven individual to join our team as a Behavioral Health Therapist - ACT for Dickinson, Iron and Menominee Couties. This role provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care management services to individuals and groups relating to mental illness and or emotional problems in a community- based treatment setting.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the supervisor.
Essential Duties
Interviews individuals to obtain information concerning clinical history for a psychosocial assessment.
Completes an initial Bio-psychosocial assessment.
Provides linkage, referral, and ongoing case management monitoring for assigned individuals requiring long term case management supports.
Services provided may include individual, group, family therapy, psychosocial assessments, mental status exams, diagnosis, and care management.
Provides referral, linkage, or administration (psychologist) for various tests such as psychological tests, personality inventories, and intelligence quotient tests, to identify behavioral or personality traits and intelligence levels, and ensures results are integrated into the individual plan of service.
Plans and administers therapeutic treatment and/or intervention to assist individuals in controlling disorders and other problems, utilizing methods and/or techniques consistent with known professional best practices and ethical conduct.
Changes method and degree of therapy when indicated by individual reactions.
Consults with treatment team concerning the plan of service and amends plan as recommended.
Provides for consultation, reporting, coordination and referral to other agency staff and programs, community organizations, or external health care professionals as determined to be clinically appropriate.
Conducts measurement of individual clinical outcome and individual satisfaction as directed.
Will maintain workload as established in policy.
Participates in community education activities, staff training in-service, and continuing professional development as directed.
Ensures that case records follow Northpointe policies and all other regulatory bodies requirements.
Performs Clinical Peer Reviews of assessments that resulted in a denial of CMH services (i.e., Second Opinion Assessments).
Assures that a plan of service for each individual is developed, implemented, reviewed, and updated on a regular basis, with input from individual.
Provides contacts as needed and documents these contacts within a 24-hour period in individual’s record.
Assists the individual in preparing financial assistance applications, i.e., SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, G.A., and M.A. when necessary.
Has the authority to perform SSI level of care determinations based upon acquisition of placement responsibility which will then require negotiations with Social Security Administration office to work out arrangements for processing SSI applications.
Provides OBRA assessments upon request following training.