Job Description

As a Mental Health Professional on an Assertive Community Treatment Team or the Forensic Assertive Community Treatment Teamteam, you’ll work alongside a multidisciplinary team to bring services directly to individuals in the community. Rather than relying solely on traditional office-based treatment, you’ll have the opportunity to meet people where they are, build meaningful relationships, and help them achieve greater stability, independence, and quality of life.

Make a difference where it matters most. Join a collaborative Assertive Community Treatment (ACT/F-ACT) team providing recovery-focused, person-centered services to adults living with severe and persistent mental illness. This role offers the opportunity to provide meaningful clinical care while helping individuals build stability, independence, and connections within their communities.

What You’ll Do

• Provide clinical treatment: Deliver individual and group therapy using evidence-based and individualized approaches, provide symptom management and psychoeducation, and support individuals in achieving their treatment goals.
• Lead coordinated care: Develop and monitor person-centered treatment plans, coordinate services across the individual’s treatment team, and collaborate with families, community providers, and other professionals.
• Support recovery in the community: Provide practical, rehabilitative, and skill-building support that helps individuals strengthen daily living, social, vocational, housing, and community-integration skills.
• Respond to changing needs: Conduct ongoing assessments, monitor progress and response to treatment, provide crisis intervention when needed, and adjust services to meet changing needs.
• Be part of a multidisciplinary team: Participate in daily team meetings, treatment planning, cross-training, and shared clinical decision-making while providing services under the guidance of the team leader and psychiatrist.

Starting rate of $31.63/hour + mileage reimbursement

Benefits

Merakey offers generous benefits that promote well-being, financial security, and work-life balance, including:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus access to healthcare advocacy support.
• Retirement plan -- both pre-tax and Roth (after-tax) options available for employee contributions.
• DailyPay -- access your pay when you need it!
• On the Goga well-being platform, featuring self-care tools and resources.
• Access Care.com for backup childcare, elder care, and household services.
• Confidential counseling, legal, and financial services through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Tuition reimbursement and educational partnerships.
• Employee discounts and savings programs on entertainment, travel, and lifestyle.
• Access to Pryor Online Learning for free online personal development classes.

Learn more about our full benefits package - https://www.merakey.org/careers/benefits

About Merakey

Merakey is a non-profit provider of developmental, behavioral health, and education services. More than 8,000 employees provide support to nearly 40,000 individuals and families throughout 12 states across the country each year. Click here to watch a video about Merakey. Merakey strictly follows a zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

Merakey is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer! We deeply value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ethnic background, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or disability status. Moreover, we are committed to creating teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Merakey welcomes all Veterans to apply!

Qualifications

• Licensed as an LPC or LCSW, or license-eligible as a Resident in Counseling or Supervisee in Social Work.
• Master’s degree in Human Services or a related field.
• At least 1 year of clinical experience working with adults with severe mental illness.
• Valid Virginia Driver’s License and required state and federal clearances.

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday dayshift with rotating holidays and on call/weekend rotation