Unlicensed Clinician (ACSW/AMFT/APCC)

The Priority Center is seeking a bilingual, full-time Unlicensed Clinician for its Adult In-Home Crisis Stabilization Program (AIHCS). The AIHCS Program serves suicidal and homicidal adults who can’t be hospitalized, in order to diffuse the crisis, promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent suicidal and homicidal acts.

The Unlicensed Clinician serves as a liaison between children/families and systems, and provides a wide range of services depending on the needs and expectations of each individual and family in the Adult In-Home Crisis Stabilization (AIHCS) program of The Priority Center.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Provide 24/7 crisis intervention and critical safety management services primarily in the home to accommodate the client and family’s schedule.
• Provide support to the individual adult and family to help them cope with stressors related to serious emotional disturbance.
• Conduct a thorough clinical assessment including chief complaint, history, mental status, needs of family, disposition, and focused on the crisis and safety concerns.
• Develop and implement a Client Care Plan with collaboration of adult and family, in order to provide strength-based treatment focused on safety, coping skills, problems solving, social support and communication.
• Monitor adult/family participation and progress in organized treatment programs to assure the planned provision of service according to the adult’s individual Client Care Plan.
• Participate as a member of multi-disciplinary team in all treatment plan reviews after initial contact with individual and prior to terminating each case. (Case Consult)
• Present case conceptualization and treatment plan in group supervision setting and attend individual supervision as scheduled.
• Provide Targeted Case Management (TCM) and Community Support Services that include, but are not limited to, monitoring and linking of services based on the strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences of the individual and family.
• Consult, confer and coordinate with referring and other community agencies and resources to advocate for the mental health needs of the child/family.
• Maintain contact with adults who are placed in hospital/respite/residential care and participate in discharge planning and necessary collateral contacts.
• Document all services provided for HCA contract compliance, as well as financial, statistical and other reporting purposes.
• Assess client safety, write 5150 hold (to involuntarily confine a person suspected to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to themselves, a danger to others, and/or gravely disabled) upon LPS designation.

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy or related field
• Two years’ experience preferred
• Valid California driver’s license
• Current auto insurance
• Access to reliable transportation
• Live Scan fingerprinting required
• Experience with families and adults is highly preferred
• Bilingual- Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, Spanish, etc. Required
• Registration with California BBS required