Clinician I/II - CSU **30hrs**

Clinician I/II - Csu

Work Schedule is Thursday - Saturday 10:00 pm – 8:00 am. Licensed candidates are preferred as either a LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC however ACSW, APCC or AMFT with experience can be considered. Experience working with individuals with serious mental illness and/or addiction issues encouraged to apply. Please note these are 3/10 hour overnight awake shifts

Hourly Rate: Associate $40.55...Licensed $52.34 (Plus 10% differential) …..Bi-Lingual Pay - One hundred twenty five dollars per paycheck for threshold languages to serve our monolingual clients

Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. For Clinician I, the current Step 1 rate for this position is $40.55/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $44.77/hr. For Clinician II, The current Step 1 rate for this position is $52.34/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $57.79/hr.

We offer a competitive package of employee benefits for 30 to 40-hour week positions. You will receive a defined contribution amount of up to $14,580 per year (prorated for part-time employees working less than 40 hours per week) to purchase the benefits of your choice on a cafeteria plan basis. Any amount of this defined contribution not used towards your benefits will be paid to you as taxable earnings. We offer a retirement plan with a generous employer match starting at 4% after one year of employment. Our paid time off is also more generous than many employers with vacation time accruing up to 25 days per year, 6 days of sick time per year and 12 paid holidays.

The benefits offered in our cafeteria plan are as follows:

• Medical benefits – Kaiser--ranging from $0 Deductible Plan with $15 Copay to $3,200 Deductible Plan with Health Savings Account. Sutter Health plans are also available from $0 Deductible Plan to $2,500 Deductible Plan.
• Dental benefits – Guardian: 1 dental HMO and 2 PPOs
• Vision benefits – 2 options from Guardian VSP: a standard vision plan and an enhanced vision plan

In addition to our competitive salaries, we pay a shift differential for certain shifts in our 24-hour programs as follows:

• 6% additional pay for overnight (NOC) shift from 11 pm to 7 am
• 4.5% additional pay for evening shift from 5:30 pm to 10:59 pm
• 4.5% additional pay for weekend shifts from 12:01 am on Saturday thru 11:59pm on Sunday

The goals are to reintegrate the client back into the community by focusing on interpersonal and independent living skills, as well as developing community support systems. Our programs provide a stabilizing environment, a multitude of self-help skills and a plan to assist client's transition back into the community to practice what they have learned while in the program.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Provide clinical leadership in areas of comprehensive assessments, case conferences, treatment plans and strategic interventions to ensure quality service delivery.
2. Provide treatment services, training, and support to clients, both individually and within groups, and associated services to clients' families and/or representatives to develop and improve skills related to physical and mental health care needs.
3. Develop recommendations for discharge and follow-up treatment planning for clients and their families.
4. Maintain timely, accurate, and complete clinical records and other required documentation and produce clear, accurate reports in accordance with agency, payor and regulatory requirement, utilizing paper or computer technology.
5. Provide assessment and intervention in response to client crisis, including necessary follow up and using appropriate consultation; provide coverage in emergency situations.
6. Assist Program Manager in maintaining compliance with CARF, contract, Agency, and regulatory requirements.
7. Provide transportation in personal or agency vehicle, including but not limited to the transportation of clients and/or program supplies for agency business.
8. Provide on-call coverage and participate in after-hours rotation, as assigned.
9. Perform First Aid in emergency situations, if assigned to residential facilities.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Attend and participate in staff, program, agency and community meetings and training, as required.
2. Meet continuing education requirements to satisfy regulatory, accreditation, and Agency requirements and ensure continued professional growth and knowledge of current trends in mental health.
3. Participate in management of team/program discretionary resources available to meet client needs.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities Required:

1. Master's degree in the mental health profession and one year's experience working in human services settings; (E) in a mental health setting and/or with targeted populations. (D) (Doctorate education and licensing may be substituted, where appropriate.)
2. Eligibility for waiver and apply for registration and waiver upon hire or as soon as regulations allow and obtain waiver within six months of hire date. (E)
3. Eligibility for registration from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT), Associate Clinical Social Worker (ACSW), Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC) OR eligibility for registration from the California Board of Psychology (BOP) as a Registered Psychologist or a Psychological Assistant.
4. First Aid Certification or successful completion of First Aid Certification within 30 days of hire, if assigned to residential facilities. (E)
5. Meet government and/or regulatory standards for continuing education credits and recertification, including a minimum of 20 hours of directly related professional training, if assigned to a residential facility. (E)
6. Proven typing speed of 30 net wpm (E); 40 net wpm (D); computer literacy; ability to use MS Office applications—Word; Excel; Outlook—and Windows-based databases at a basic level; (E) familiarity with UNIX-based databases. (D)
7. Demonstrated ability to:
1. Work independently and in a small team environment; (E)
2. Organize and manage a caseload; manage multiple tasks and demands on a timely basis; (E)
3. Engage and communicate effectively with others in both verbal and written English; legible handwriting; (E)
4. Conceptualize and prioritize the problems of mentally disordered individuals, determining their needs, services, and appropriate treatment methods; (E)
5. Monitor and support developmental growth and the recovery process; (E)
6. Effectively conduct and facilitate group rehabilitation services; (E)
7. Maintain timely, accurate and complete medical charts and client records and prepare reports; (E)
8. Employ tact and diplomacy, exercise good judgment, and act calmly in emergency situations; (E)
9. Work from a strengths-based, harm-reduction, social rehabilitation model; (E)
10. Work effectively with persons differing in value systems, ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, language capabilities and disabilities; (E)
11. Work collaboratively with individuals identified as those with serious mental illness who meet the following criteria: histories of hospitalization, institutionalization, including with the criminal justice system, substance abuse, low engagement in medication treatment, and difficulty in participating in structured activities and living independently; (E)
12. Work with populations identified as high risk and/or considered under-represented in the County Mental Health system with multiple barriers; (D)
13. Exhibit exemplary customer service, compassion, and care in the execution of all duties and interactions. (E)
8. Demonstrated ability to work with participants who:
1. May also have histories of assaultive behavior; (D)
2. May have resided in long term care facilities for extended periods; (D)
3. May have patterns of service that relied almost exclusively on emergency and institutional care; (D)
4. May have cognitive difficulties and medical co-morbidities and are considered medically fragile and may also be developmentally disabled; (D)
5. May have long-term patterns