Job Description

About Claratel Behavioral Health

Claratel Behavioral Health is an innovative, community-based behavioral health and developmental disabilities services organization offering a full range of mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorder services to underserved individuals. As a public, not-for-profit organization, Claratel Behavioral Health operates in more than 20 locations in DeKalb County, Georgia, with a diverse workforce of more than 400 direct-care and support staff.

If you are passionate about driving change in behavioral health and developmental services and are eager to work in an environment that values innovation and inclusivity, Claratel Behavioral Health is the place for you. Here, your work is impactful, your growth is prioritized, and your well-being is supported. Together, we can forge pathways to a healthier future for all.

Job Summary

Under general supervision, provides screening and biopsychosocial, suicide risk, and other specific assessment tools in the evaluation of adult clients. Makes sound triage decisions and develops clinical formulations, and diagnostic impressions based on clinical assessments. Develops client treatment plans in collaboration with the clients and collateral sources. Provides individual, group counseling, family counseling, and other treatment modalities within an evidence-based framework. Coordinates care with the treatment team, community-based team, and external resources. Demonstrates clinical knowledge in mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders along with social determinants of health. Performs duties from a recovery-oriented, client-centered, and trauma-informed perspective. Documents services in the electronic health record according to agency standards. Demonstrates strong clinical judgment in care provision. Regularly obtains clinical supervision and seeks additional supervision as necessary.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs thorough biopsychosocial assessment of the less complex to more complex clients and documents the assessment within agency guidelines
• Utilizes information from multiple sources as appropriate in the formulation of client-driven treatment planning
• Demonstrates knowledge of childhood development stages
• Demonstrates knowledge of play therapy and family systems interventions
• Assesses and documents responses to interventions and modifies interventions
• May utilize specific assessment tools regularly in evaluation of adults and/or children and adolescents
• Demonstrates strong clinical judgment in assessments, application of diagnostic criteria, clinical formulations, and sound triage decisions
• Seeks clinical supervision as necessary
• Completes process for the authorization for services
• Documents referrals, discharges, and resources or other issues for problem resolution and/or utilization as required in agency policy
• May conduct intake assessments to adult or child clients.

Advanced Therapeutic Counseling

• Creates therapeutic relationship as appropriate with clients and families/significant others
• Conducts individual, family, group counseling/therapy, and educational sessions using evidence-based practices
• Demonstrates clinical knowledge in mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders along with social determinants of health commonly associated with mental health
• Demonstrates documented clinical proficiency (through education, training, or experience) in client engagement, interviewing, and recording

Professional

• Maintain licensure/certification
• Actively participates in clinical supervision or consultation
• Actively engages in behavioral health educational initiatives
• Seeks continuing education to meet current clinical needs

Minimum Training, Competency & Experience: License eligible or current licensure as a LCSW, LMSW, LPC, LAPC, LMFT, or LAMFT by the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists is required. The employee must be computer efficient and can multi-task. The employees must demonstrate initiative, flexibility, and professionalism.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in a residential or outpatient setting with mental health or substance abuse programs. Experience working with adults, and/or children, and adolescents. Experience conducting groups counseling/therapy services.

Pre-employment drug screening and successful completion of a criminal history background check is required.

Claratel Behavioral Health participates in E-Verify (Company ID: 226305)

Claratel Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates who may require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law to perform the essential functions of this job are encouraged to contact Human Resources at hrhelp@claratel.org.