Licensed Counselor - ACT - Sign On Bonus

Build Stability Beyond the Therapy Office

The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team provides a higher level of care for adults living with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features. This is not traditional office-based therapy. ACT clinicians meet clients where they are, working in the community and with families to provide individualized care that supports stability, recovery, independence, and meaningful community connection.

Position Summary

As an integral member of the multidisciplinary ACT team, the ACT Licensed Clinician provides expert, high-quality, and transparent clinical mental health services to adults with serious and persistent mental illness. The clinician provides individualized, person-centered services in office, home, outreach, and community-based settings.

Essential Functions

Provide Individualized Clinical Care

• Complete diagnostic assessments, including psychosocial history, diagnostic justification, and conceptualization of client needs.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments addressing intake diagnostics, safety, risk management, and treatment planning.
• Develop treatment recommendations grounded in diagnostic evidence and measured through appropriate clinical outcome tools.
• Provide evidence-based and outcomes-informed individual, group, and family therapy.
• Provide treatment for clients who may have co-occurring mental health and substance use needs.
• Engage clients as active partners and co-owners of their treatment plans.
• Adjust treatment approaches based on client feedback, therapeutic rapport, symptoms, strengths, preferences, motivation, and progress.

Deliver Community-Based ACT Services

• Provide therapeutic services in office, home, outreach, and community-based settings.
• Work with ACT clients and their families to support treatment participation, stability, recovery, and community integration.
• Develop individualized interventions based on clients' strengths, needs, goals, cultures, and living environments.
• Maintain flexibility and adaptability while providing services in a dynamic behavioral health environment.

Facilitate Groups and Practical Skill Development

Facilitate therapeutic and skill-building groups that support recovery, independence, and social connection.

Support Crisis Management and Stabilization

• Assess safety and risk and develop strategic safety plans that balance identified risks with client strengths and support systems.
• Provide interventions that de-escalate and stabilize clients experiencing behavioral health crises.
• Initiate an involuntary mental health hold when clinically appropriate based on the severity of the identified risk and applicable requirements.
• Complete crisis-related documentation clearly, comprehensively, and within required timeframes.

Collaborate With the ACT Team

• Participate in treatment planning, clinical consultation, and ongoing care coordination.
• Work effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with clinical and operational team members.
• Provide and receive constructive feedback to improve client care and team effectiveness.
• Adapt clinical approaches when feedback from clients, families, or team members identifies an opportunity to improve services.
• Use clinical and operational data to understand caseload dynamics, length of service, clinical complexity, productivity, and service-delivery intervals.

Deliver Culturally Responsive Care

• Demonstrate multicultural awareness and sensitivity to client treatment preferences.
• Work respectfully and effectively with clients and families from diverse racial, cultural, socioeconomic, and lived-experience backgrounds.
• Incorporate each client's identity, values, strengths, preferences, and experiences into treatment planning and service delivery.

Maintain Quality and Compliance

• Complete clinical documentation accurately and within required timeframes.
• Ensure documentation meets established quality standards and complies with state and federal requirements.
• Communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing.
• Use the electronic health record and other required technology to document and coordinate services.