About this role
About Abode:
When you join Abode, you're not just taking a job, you're becoming part of a team creating meaningful change in our communities and a commitment to lasting housing stability.
At Abode, we believe everyone deserves a safe and stable place to call home. Our mission is to solve homelessness through housing and supportive services that help individuals and families achieve stability and independence. Grounded in the Housing First model, we meet people where they are and provide individualized support based on their needs, goals, and strengths.
Housing Ends Homelessness
Our Mission:
Abode works to end homelessness by assisting low-income, unhoused people, including those with special needs, to secure stable, supportive housing; and to be advocates for the removal of the causes of homelessness.
Our Values:
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• Start with Dignity
• Take Smart Risks
• Be transparent
• Solve for today and tomorrow
• Spark each other's strengths
About the role:
The Mental Health Clinician ll provides mental health services to participants and is aimed at increasing wellness, increasing housing stability, and preventing people from cycling through the criminal justice system and/or hospitals. Responsible for behavioral health assessment and delivery of strengths based/needs focused services. Acts as the lead on clinical cases and guides supporting team members in clinical service delivery.
How You Make An Impact:
• Provide clinical case management services, including individual rehabilitative services, brokerage, collateral, and therapy to participants in the following settings: home, community, and office.
• Act as the primary lead on assessments, ANSA and develop treatment plans on an on-going basis for participants enrolled in the program. Collaboratively work with participants and their treatment team to develop and work on their recovery goals.
• Perform mental status exams, as well as safety assessments that include suicide, homicide, and gravely disabled assessments with participants on an ongoing basis.
• Provide direct crisis counseling and needs identification.
• Utilize motivational interviewing techniques to explore participants' substance dependency, encourage reduction and/or provide support to clients moving towards abstinence.
• Provide wrap around clinical case management services to individuals residing in permanent supportive housing.
• Using the ACT model, this position will work as a therapist within the ACT team
• Assist participants with establishing goals and strategies for increasing self-sufficiency.
• Coordinate care and discharge planning for participants in institutional settings, hospitals, etc.
• Identify a mental health provider and do a warm hand off to the new provider, required for some programs.
• Provide linkage and warm hand offs to long term mental health providers, when called for or required.
• Provide support to families and loved ones as needed.
• Attend clinical, administrative, and case conferencing meetings as assigned by the program supervisor.
• Enter all data on time and correctly to support program evaluation and outcomes tracking
• Ensure proper and timely documentation of services including written case notes using the BIRP formats and bill services to Medi-Cal.
• Other duties as assigned.
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How You Meet the Qualifications:
• MS/MSW/MA degree in Psychology.
• Registration with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) required as an ACSW/AMFT/APCC.
• Experience with Medi-Cal billing required.
• 1 year of field experience working with people with serious mental illness, individuals with a dual diagnosis and/or the homeless population.
• 1 year of field experience diagnosing patients with acute behavioral healthcare needs and completing assessments and treatment plans.
• Use of personal vehicle, proof of a valid and current California Driver's License and current insurance along with a clean DMV record required.
COMPETENCIES:
• Excellent verbal & written communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to work well independently and collaboratively with teams.
• Knowledge of affordable housing regulations, including but not limited to HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), Tax-Exempt Bonds, HOME, CDBG, SHP, HCD, CHRP, CHFA, MHSA, and AHP.
• Able to act with integrity; respect for confidentiality; ability to work with diverse populations, including persons with various disabilities.
• Ability to analyze and prioritize complex situations, policies and procedures, laws and regulations and exercise good judgment in the course of completing required duties.
• Thorough knowledge of fair housing and tenant related laws.
• Ability to speak, read and write a second language such as Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog or Mandarin/Cantonese.Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, systems, and platforms and Yardi or other Property Management software.
• Ability to learn and use required mobile devices and business-related applications.
• Outstanding communication skills and high degree of emotional intelligence, cultural humility, with a proven track record to build and maintain effective relationships with a wide variety of internal and external contacts.
Our Benefits and Perks:
• Compensation: $38.00/hr - $45.67/hr DOE
• Sign-on bonus of up to $4,500
• PTO:19 days per year, increasing with tenure
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year
• Health & Wellness:
• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage options for employees
• Employer subsidized options for dependent health care."
• Legal and financial services and more through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental health care service provided by Teledoc
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Commuter
• Health care
• Dependent care
• Retirement Plan: 403(b) w/ employer match & contribution programs
Notice: This description is to be used as a guide only. It does not constitute a contract, commitment or promise of any kind. Abode Services reserves the right to change, add, delete, upgrade, or downgrade the position as dictated by business necessity at any time with or without notice.
Notice: Abode Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Drug Free Workplace