Substance Use Disorder Clinician Job at LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
SUMMARY: Licensed OBOT/ BHS Clinician provides clinical (individual and group counseling) services in OBOT including: outpatient therapy/counseling to adult and early adolescent patients.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned.
- Provide Behavioral Health Services in collaboration with OBOT/BHS staff, including Physicians and Nurse Case Managers or other support staff as required.
- Provide therapy in the primary areas of Addiction, PTSD and depression, but may also include anxiety, grief, domestic violence, relationship difficulties, parent-child problems, acculturation issues or serious mental illnesses.
- Complete all clinical documentation in eCW per Health Center standards.
- Ensure clinical documentation meets medical necessity.
- Meet direct care standards as determined by OBOT/BHS Department.
- Complete mandatory reporting including, as needed, reporting of abuse and/or neglect of children, the elderly or the disabled.
- Provide and administer SBIRT Screenings, BASIS 24, or CANS when required.
- Initiate referrals for Substance Abuse treatment, coordination of services and on-going case management of complex cases (including working with DCF and the Courts), and crisis intervention in cases of patients with suicidal or homicidal ideation including consultation to medical staff and assisting in sending patient to ED if necessary.
- Collaborate and initiate referrals to BHS case manager to find resources for patients, offer referrals to outside agencies for treatment and/or concrete services, facilitate use of outside services, assist patients to apply for entitlements or benefits.
- Provide consultation to medical providers on mental health issues, as well as collaborating with them in the holistic care of the patient.
- Ensure collaborative BHI/PC integrated care of the patient.
- Attend all required meetings as necessitated by OBOT and BHS affiliation.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Current license as an LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LMHC – Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Location: 161 JACKSON ST., Lowell, MA 01852
Job Type: Full-time
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