Assertive Community Treatment Therapist / Case Manager
Assertive Community Treatment Therapist / Case Manager
HS Specialist II
Job #CS18-117
Salary: $4127-$4706/month (DOE) with Excellent Benefits
Yamhill County Community Support Services (Abacus) has an opening for a regular full-time Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) to be part of a trans-disciplinary Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team providing community-based wrap-around behavioral health support and services to individuals with serious mental illness in an outpatient community mental health program. Duties include participation in annual evaluations, diagnosis and treatment planning activities, providing direct treatment of assigned clients in the ACT program, and maintaining current records of treatment while working closely with an integrated behavioral health team. These services are designed to assist individuals with a history of psychiatric hospitalization and/or at risk for hospitalization to live well in the community. This position will be part of a team providing 24-hour support, 7 days a week.
Benefits
Health coverage - Group medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for the entire family. For the 2018-19 plan year, the County pays 99% of the monthly premium and employees pay 1% ($15.10 per month) for the Base Plan. With this plan, employees are eligible for a $100 a month contribution into an HRA VEBA account. Buy-up plans are also available.
Retirement - PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) contribution is 100% employer funded, which includes both contribution to PERS pension and IAP accounts (IAP contribution is 6% of salary).
Short-Term Disability – 100% County paid
Life insurance - $6,000 for employee/$2,000 for spouse and children – 100% County Paid.
Vacation/Sick Leave - Flexible Earned Time (FET) is a combination of vacation and sick leave. To start, you will earn 12.38 hours per month and future accruals increase based on years of service. After a year of service and depending on FET balance, employees may sell-back up to 40 hours of FET per year.
Qualifications
A Master’s degree in a social work or clinical mental health counseling is required in addition to at least one (1) year of clinical work or Master’s level intern experience in a setting relevant to the duties and skills noted above and in the attached job description. Any appropriate combination of education and experience which ensures the ability to perform the work may be considered. The preference is for the person in this position to be willing to work toward LCSW or LPC. Successful completion of a background check is required.
In addition to working knowledge and techniques of community behavioral health, this position requires: an understanding behaviors of people under stress; the ability to develop and maintain cooperative relationships with clients, their families, physicians, law enforcement agencies, the courts, public and private agencies and administrators, and the community in general; knowledge of community mental health and chemical dependency services; and preparing and maintaining concise and complete client treatment and progress records. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, typing and computer proficiency including basic office software for collaborative documentation, and will be dependable, organized, and team-oriented.
In order to qualify for most HHS positions, applicants: **Must not be excluded from participation in federal health care programs (Medicaid, Medicare, and other federally-funded programs that provide health benefits); and **Must not be excluded from participation in federal procurement (Federal Acquisition Regulation) and non-procurement activities (Executive Order No. 12549).
Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this classification with or without accommodation.