ACT Team Counselor

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Job Title: ACT Team CounselorAgency: Pathways Center Job Requisition ID: JR0000003881Shift: Day (United States of America)Compensation Details:

Job Description: Pathways Center’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team provides a variety of interventions twenty-four (24) hours, seven days a week. The service utilizes a multidisciplinary mental health team. The ACT team works as one organizational unit providing community based interventions that are rehabilitative, intensive, integrated, and stage specific. Services emphasize social inclusiveness though relationship building and the active involvement in assisting individuals to achieve a stable and structured life style. ACT is a unique treatment model in which the majority of mental health services are directly provided internally by the ACT program in the recipient’s natural environment.

The responsibilities for the Licensed Counselor position include but are not limited to the following:

• Provides professional level therapeutic services to persons with mental illness and/or addictive disease.
• Participates in daily treatment team meetings
• Conducts face to face comprehensive assessments to identify problems and service needs.
• Writes treatment plans to meet third party payer requirements, regulatory guidelines, and individuals needs which are clear, concise, grammatically correct, timely and properly coded.
• Provides risk assessment and crisis intervention.
• Facilitates the admission process and maintains communication with referral sources, families, patients and unit staff.
• Writes timely progress notes that relate directly to the treatment outcomes.
• Modifies treatment plans based on new developments and needs identified by the individual.
• Provides crisis intervention services to individuals as needed. May provide services during non-traditional hours as indicated by program needs.
• May perform some case management duties to facilitate and ensure communication, linkage, and continuity of care between individuals, physicians, other organizational components, community resources and service providers.
• Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with community service providers and other program components
• Participates in ongoing learning & development

Minimum Qualifications Must be associate or fully licensed as an LAPC, LMSW, LPC or LCSW

Minimum Qualifications: Master's degree in social work and counseling from an accredited college or university and licensure in the area of assignment and two (2) years of experience at the lower level Social Worker, Licensed 2 (HCP051) or position equivalent; or Master's degree in social work and counseling from an accredited college or university and licensure in the area of assignment and two (2) years of related post-license experience. Equal Employment Opportunity Employer The State of Georgia does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, or other protected categories in employment or the provision of services. Qualified applicants may request reasonable accommodation when needed during the application and/or screening process by contacting the appropriate agency Human Resources department.