Mental Health Clinician - Community Support Team

Are you looking to make a difference in people’s lives? Do you want to learn and grow professionally while experiencing meaningful work?

Join our community mental health and wellness program and help people achieve success every day. Envision is a premier provider of recovery based mental health services in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. We inspire hope, inspiration and resiliency to hundreds of people each year.

Description:

CST service is provided under the direction of a full-time QMHP, is available to the participant 24/7 and is intended to decrease institutional and behavioral health crisis episodes while increasing community functioning to achieve rehabilitative, resiliency and recovery goals. CST includes all Medicaid MH services that an MHP-level staff can provide. Services such as assessment, treatment planning, individual and group counseling, skill building and case management activities are included.

General Functions:

The Clinician will serve as a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive mental health services to clients residing in the community in need enhanced services beyond what a traditional outpatient program provides.  Some may be recent discharges from in-patient facilities. Clinician will be responsible for completing a comprehensive mental health assessment which also include LOCUS, SLOF and other tools to arrive at a mental health diagnosis. A treatment plan will also be completed based on assessed needs. The clinician will be providing individual and group therapy, medication training, skill building, crisis intervention and case management services with clients using a recovery model in a home/community-based model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to implement recovery-oriented services to clients using evidenced based practices.
• Work collaboratively with team leader and staff attending case staffings and clinical meetings as needed. 
• Engage clients in assessment and treatment planning process together with the CST team staff
• Provide services needed to achieve psychiatric stability including crisis intervention, therapy, medication training, community support and case management services
• Work with staff to facilitate individual and group skill building activities to aid clients to achieve recovery goals and promote community living at highest potential possible
• Assist clients to secure and maintain entitlements
• Develop and implement therapeutic recreational opportunities for clients
• Enter progress notes in Envision’s Electronic Health Record System (Quantum).
• Complete required productivity targets and documentation on a timely basis
• Participates in a rotational after hours on call system, with additional compensation
• Work with leadership team to manage client recruitment, prior authorization and on-going utilization management and other administrative requirements of the program

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in social work, counseling, psychology or related field. Will consider bachelor level staff with extensive mental health experience.  Experience with clients with substance abuse issues and/or CADC a plus. Experience in working directly with clients with severe mental or physical illness also preferred. Must be able to work with diverse populations with multi-faceted needs. Excellent written and oral communication skills needed, with demonstrated ability to engage clients. Valid driver’s license, with insured automobile to travel to multiple locations required. Knowledge of Medicaid rule 132/140 a plus.

ABOUT ENVISION UNLIMITED:

Envision Unlimited is a large, non-profit agency with locations across the Chicago Metropolitan Areas. We have decades of experience working with clients who experience developmental disabilities or severe, and persistent mental health challenges. We provide psychiatry, outpatient mental health, residential and day treatment within our mental health division.

Envision Unlimited offers competitive salaries and a generous benefit package to our professionals:

Flexible Schedule

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Medical Coverage: HMO, PPO

Dental and Vision Insurance Options 

Company paid Life Insurance

12 Paid Holidays + Birthday Off

Paid vacation, sick time and personal days

401K plan

In house training and CEU’s

Employee Assistance Network

Support for pursuing clinical licensure (financial and time off)

Opportunity for career growth & development