Eliot is seeking a compassionate and dedicated CCS Clinician to provide high-quality care and support to clients in need. Eliot's innovative Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) program serves as a centralized access point for mental health and substance use services for youth, families, and adults.
As a CCS Clinician, you will play a critical role in delivering urgent care through crisis planning, stabilization, and short-term treatment to support clients during acute periods. In collaboration with a multidisciplinary CBHC team, you will provide solution-focused clinical interventions aimed at managing crises and promoting stability until ongoing services are established.
Responsibilities:
• Deliver urgent behavioral health care through diagnostic evaluations, crisis planning, stabilization interventions, and short-term treatment for individuals and families experiencing acute needs. • Provide flexible, community-based care in office settings, virtually, at home, or in the community based on clinical direction and client preference. • Offer direct, solution-focused clinical support including skills training, behavior modeling, and crisis resolution to help stabilize clients until ongoing services are in place. • Assess safety and service needs including determining appropriate levels of care such as community services or hospitalization and develop stabilization-focused treatment plans. • Collaborate across care systems supporting hospital admissions and discharges, maintaining communication with the triage team, and participating in ongoing clinical trainings and assessments.
Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Psychology, Social Work or related field. • Independent Clinical licensure, preferred. • Experience working with adults with mental illness/substance abuse. • Strong diagnostic skills, competence in crisis intervention, ability to develop short term interventions to support clients/families, and engagement strategies. • Must be able to quickly establish rapport with individuals with a wide range of clinical presentations.
Schedule: Saturday and Sunday, 10am-6pm (16 hours per week)