Therapist - PACT

This position carries out rehabilitation and support functions along with assisting in treatment, substance abuse services, education, support, and consultation to clients and their families. Treatment is primarily provided in the community at a location that best meets the needs of the clients served.

Responsibilities:Primary Responsibilities

• Provide service coordination (case management) for an assigned group of clients including coordinating and monitoring the activities

• Assumes primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, revising overall treatment goals and plans as clients’ needs change

• Educate, support clients’ families, and advocate for clients’ rights and preferences

• Participate in client centered comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history

• Complete sections of the PACT comprehensive assessment including social development and functioning, activities of daily living, and family structure and relationships

• Consults with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process

• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meetings

• Participate in providing substance use and treatment services

• On call and medication monitoring after normal business hours on rotating basis

Psychiatric Treatment and Dual Diagnosis Substance Abuse Services

• Assist in ongoing assessment of clients’ mental illness symptoms and clients’ response to treatment

• Provides therapy services utilizing evidence-based interventions including CBTp

• Make appropriate changes in treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put clients at risk

• Assist in the provision of symptom education to enable clients to identify their mental illness symptoms

• Assist in the provision of direct clinical services to clients on an individual, groups, and family basis in the office or in the community setting to teach behavioral symptoms, management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced by medication

• Promote clients’ personal growth and development by assisting them to adapt and cope with internal and external stresses

• Assist with individual or group treatment in office or community setting in a stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational, considers interactions of mental illness, substance abuse, and client determined goals

• Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify clients and establish linkage to self-help programs

• Participate in the provision of rehabilitation services

Activities of Daily Living Services

• Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side by side services, skill training supervisions, and environmental adaptions to assist clients with activities of daily living

• Assist clients to find and maintain a safe affordable place to live

• Assist and support clients to perform household activities, including house cleaning and laundry

• Ensure clients have adequate financial support (help to gain employment or apply for entitlements)

• Teach money management skills (budgeting and bill pay)

• Assist clients in assessing financial services

• Help clients to access reliable transportation

• Assist and support clients to effectively use personal primary care physical, dentist, and other medical specialists as required

Support, Interpersonal Relationships and Leisure time

• Provide individual supportive therapy (problem solving, role playing, modeling, and support), skill development, and assertiveness training to increase client social and interpersonal activities in a community setting

• Plan, structure, and prompt social, leisure time activities on evenings, weekend, and holidays, providing side-by-side support and coaching to increase social experiences and provide opportunities to practice social skills and receive feedback & support

Support

• Provide practical help, supports, advocacy, coordination, side by side individualized support, problem solving, direct assistance, training, and supervision to help clients obtain the necessities for daily living.

Perform other duties as assigned