The ACT Coordinator is responsible for management, oversight and clinical leadership of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services.
This position's duties include the following:
- Leads a field-based team in serving adults with complex, intensive needs. This role leads the ACT team, as well as supervises 2 staff with intensive caseloads.
- Ability to create, lead and cultivate an expert clinical team with demonstrated outcomes in the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model, compliance with state contract requirements, as well as agency standards
- Responsible for interviewing, training, and providing ongoing support and supervision of clinical staff.
- Provides assistance in reviewing and auditing clinical documentation, and therefore will be proficient in use of an electronic health record and assure that all direct reports are as well
- Responsible for coordinating team duties by directly providing, or delegating tasks to managing the needs of individuals served. Ensuring organization of team duties, individual’s needs, appointments and scheduling, and coordinating services.
- Responsible for providing treatment services to a small caseload of individuals enrolled in the program
- Organize and facilitate clinical team meetings
- Compliance with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's Texas Resiliency and Recovery and Medicaid standards, and with the national SAMHSA Illness and Recovery Management evidenced based practices
- Ensures fidelity to the ACT model
- Responsible for demonstrating effective leadership and management of a team of community-based staff and a positive peer culture in alignment with the mission and values of the agency at all times
- Effective use of data, provision of necessary networking, and representation on select committees as assigned.
- Responsible for providing all services using a trauma informed approach: creating a safe environment based on trust, transparency, collaboration, mutuality, and peer support while encouraging empowerment, and acceptance of voice and choice of individuals served, and demonstrating respect for cultural, historical, and gender issues
- In region travel is required
Position Requirements:
- Master's degree in human services field
- Applicants must qualify as Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) as defined by Department of State Health Services (DSHS).*
- LPC, LCSW or LMFT license.
- Will accept LPC-Associate, LMFT-Associate or LMSW.
- 3 years mental health experience.
- 2 years supervisory experience preferred.
*Not sure if you qualify as a QMHP? Send your unofficial/official transcripts to jobs@tcbhc.org and we'll check for you!
What's in it for you:
- Awesome Benefits for you and your family
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Company-paid Life and Disability insurance, HSA/FSA
- Retirement Options (with Company Match!)
- Mental health and wellness support from our Employee Assistance Program
- Financial Wellbeing
- Say goodbye to those pesky loans- we're a Federal Student Loan Forgiveness qualified employer!
- Weekly Pay deposited directly into your account (get paid every Friday!)
- Work-Life Balance
- Live in Conroe/The Woodlands/Willis (low commuter traffic)!
- 9 Paid Company Holidays PLUS 2 Personal Holidays (VIP Days)
- Paid Time Off begins accruing on your first day!
- Casual Dress Code
- Meaningful work in the mental health and intellectual disabilities community
Effective January 1, 2016, all Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare campuses are smoke free.
Location: Conroe, Texas
Payscale:
LPC/LCSW - $69,000/yr
LPCA/LMSW - $59,942/yr
NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES
Tri-County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all Federal and State laws pertaining to employment. Tri-County is committed to Affirmative Action and has an Affirmative Action Plan.
The Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 533.007, allows Tri-County to check conviction records on applicants. Tri-County completes background checks in accordance with Texas State Health and Safety Code, Chapters 250-253: Criminal history check through the Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS), Employee Misconduct Registry (EMR), Nurse Aide Registry and for Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Tri-County will check the CARE System to determine if an applicant has a confirmed allegation of abuse, neglect or exploitation and will not hire any individual with a confirmed allegation.
The Texas Administrative Code, Title 25, Chapter 414, Subsection K, has established the following list of offenses that are an absolute bar to employment: criminal homicide, kidnapping and unlawful restraint, indecency with a child, continued sexual abuse of young child or children, sexual assault, aggravated assault, injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual, abandoning or endangering a child, aiding suicide, agreement to abduct from custody, sale or purchase of a child, arson; robbery, aggravated robbery, conviction under the laws of another state, federal law, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice for an offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense listed above, felony conviction for theft which occurred in the previous five (5) years, indecent exposure, improper relationship between educator and student, improper photography or visual reporting, deadly conduct, aggravated sexual assault, terroristic threat; online solicitation of a minor, money laundering, Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud, cruelty to animals, false identification as a peace officer, disorderly conduct, and discharges of a firearm in a public place other than a public road or a sport shooting range, as defined by Section 250.001, Local Government Code. Offenses that are not an absolute bar to employment but may be considered a contraindication will also be considered during the pre-employment process. Tri-County will also complete a driver's license check. All applicants, employees, contractors and volunteers will be checked prior to hire and monthly through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Office of the Inspector General (OIG) List of Excluded Individuals. All applicants are required to successfully complete a drug screening and a physical agility test prior to new hire orientation.
Applicants who are selected for a position in the Criminal Justice/Jail Diversion Department, TCOOMMI, and those who provide services to TCOOMMI, i.e., psychiatrists, nurses, etc., must have a Federal background check by fingerprinting through the FBI upon initial hire and annually thereafter.
Applicants who have lived out of state for two or more years from the date of submission of this application must have a Federal background check by fingerprinting through the FBI if they are selected for a position.
TRI-COUNTY'S POLICY OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Each Applicant must agree to arbitrate and to waive class and collective action participation and each Employee, without exception, must sign and agree to the terms of the Arbitration Agreement as a condition of employment with Tri-County.
Please click here to review the Notice of Arbitration and Single Employee Resolution Policy - https://content.datis.com/e3Applicants/hosttcb/images/arb_agreement.pdf
*Please print this page for a copy of this policy.
POLICY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I understand that, as a condition of my request that Tri-County consider my application and possibly hire me, I must agree to Tri-County's Policy of Dispute Resolution, which I understand requires that all disputes between applicants or employees and Tri-County, its constituent member entities, and/or its officials and/or employees must be resolved solely by arbitration, in accordance with Tri-County's Dispute Resolution Policy, a copy of which I have been provided with in this application and that such policy further requires I waive any right to participate in any class or collective action, either as representative or member and that, instead, I must resolve any dispute, as an applicant or employee, through a single-party arbitration under the specific terms and conditions set forth in Tri-County's Dispute Resolution Policy. I hereby acknowledge receipt of that Policy and agree to be bound by all of its terms in connection with the consideration of my application for employment and throughout my employment, including termination thereof, if I am hired.