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Job Type: Fulltime

Job Description:

Provide primary case management for an assigned group of individuals including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team; assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall treatment goals and plans in conjunction with the other team members; provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as individuals’ needs change; educate and support individuals’ families, and advocate for individuals’ rights and preferences. Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history, mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; and family structure and relationships. Acts as liaison and consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process. Perform shift management in coordination with other CTT shift managers according to established policies and procedures. Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime hours and serve as a backup to evening and weekend staff. Document individual progress to maintain a permanent record of individual’s activity according to established methods and procedures. Provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, with some interventions directed or performed by staff with specialty training and skills. Take the lead role or participate in providing substance use and treatment services. Provide on-going assessment of individuals’ mental illness symptoms and individuals’ response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in recovery/service plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put individuals at risk. Provide symptom education to enable individuals to identify their mental illness symptoms. Provide direct clinical services to individuals on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with mediation and to promote personal growth and development by assisting individuals to adapt to and cope with internal and external stresses. Provide multiple-stage individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings to develop a trusting relationship with individuals so that they may more freely discuss substance use and its effect on mental and physical health and daily functioning. May participate in setting treatment goals and plans with individuals to reduce or abstain from substance use and to learn replacement behaviors. Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify individuals and establish linkage to outpatient treatment, self-help programs, outpatient services and residential facilities. Take a lead role or participate in the provision of rehabilitation services. Teach job-seeking skills. Develop individualized jobs based on individuals’ needs, strengths, abilities, preferences and interests. Coordinate with state vocational rehabilitation and other employment services.

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