Full-time; posted: Thursday, Nov 9 2017
Easterseals UCP North Carolina & Virginia Send resume to:Robert Cox
Morganton, North Carolina
Email: [email protected]
Summary:Summary: The Assertive Community Treatment Team is a service provided by an interdisciplinary team that ensures service availability 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and is prepared to carry out a full range of treatment functions wherever and whenever needed. A service recipient is referred to the Assertive Community Treatment Team service when it has been determined that his/her needs are so pervasive and/or unpredictable that they cannot be met effectively at a less restrictive level of care. The ACT team shall be staffed with a substance abuse specialist who shall meet Qualified Professional status according to 10A NCAC 27G .0104, and have a designation of CCS, LCAS, LCAS-A, or CSAC.
Basic Responsibilities: • Conducts comprehensive substance abuse assessments considering the relationship between substance use and mental health. • Assesses, tracks and documents individual’s stages of change readiness and stages of treatment. • Uses outreach and motivational interviewing techniques to work with individuals in earlier stages of change readiness. • Facilitates access to 12-step groups and other community supports. • Uses cognitive behavioral approaches and relapse prevention to work with beneficiaries in later stages of change readiness. • Ensures that the team’s treatment approaches are consistent with individual’s stages of change readiness; facilitates the Person Centered Planning process for individuals as assigned. • Serves as a consultant and educator to fellow ACT team members on the topic of integrated dual disorder treatment (IDDT) and motivational interviewing. • Provides structured face-to-face scheduled therapeutic interventions to provide support and guidance in all areas of functional domains: adaptive, communication, personal care, domestic, psychosocial, problem solving, etc. in preventing, overcoming, or managing the individual's level of functioning and enhancing his/her ability to remain in the community. • Provides psychosocial rehabilitative interventions and case coordination. • Meet critical standards contained in the most current edition of the National Program Standards for ACT Teams as established by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill or US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services. • Prepares and submits documentation accurately and on time. • Participates in peer review. • Ensures incident reports are prepared and submitted on time. • Prepares and presents documentation for utilization review. • Assists in training new employees. • Completes required training within prescribed timeframes. • Successfully participates in the DMH approved ACTT training. • Other duties as assigned Qualifications: • At least a Bachelor’s degree in a human service field with LCAS, LCAS-A or CSAC Licensure, must have at least two-year post-graduate experience working with the severely and persistently mentally ill population and Substance Use Disorders. • Must have a valid, unrestricted, state appropriate driver’s license for the State of North Carolina.