Behavioral Health Clinician II - Full Time - Exempt (BL2)

At Episcopal Community Services (ECS), employees work with participants who may be experiencing homelessness, behavioral health conditions, substance use challenges, and other difficult life circumstances. While this work is meaningful and mission-driven, it can at times be stressful, demanding, or unpredictable. Employees are expected to exercise sound judgment, remain aware of their surroundings, follow established safety, communication, and de-escalation procedures, participate in all required trainings, and promptly report incidents, threats, injuries, or unsafe conditions, in accordance with ECS policies and procedures. This position is a fully onsite, client-facing role that requires in-person interaction and direct service delivery to participants at ECS program locations. Due to the essential nature of the duties and the need for consistent in-person engagement with clients, remote work or work-from-home arrangements are not available for this position. **SALARY:** External Candidates: $85,030 - $86,305 Internal Candidates: $87,581 - $88,856 Based on Longevity **SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** The Behavioral Health team is a roving team providing a variety of behavioral health interventions to adults struggling with housing insecurity, mental health and/or substance abuse needs. The ECS Behavioral Health clinicians work across sites and in the community on a mobile basis in order to best meet the behavioral health needs of clients. The ECS Behavioral Health clinicians provide intensive and consistent services that follow clients across shelter, interim housing, and permanent housing locations. ECS Behavioral Health staff provide a consistent presence, establishing rapport, trust and safety. ECS Behavioral Health Clinicians strive to provide individually tailored services to assist the client to promote wellness, identify and mitigate risky behaviors, and improve functioning levels at their home and in the community. **PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:** 1. Work closely with the Associate Director of Behavioral Health, and the Administrative Assistant/Quality Assurance Specialist to reach all Medi-Cal billing goals and outcomes. 2. Maintain a regular caseload and provide professional and culturally relevant support, advocacy, information and referrals to program participants in order to guide them through a process of self-directed goal-setting that builds upon client strengths and talents. 3. Complete initial and ongoing assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning in collaboration with assigned caseload. 4. Meet with each client regularly and provide Medi-Cal billable mental health services including assessment, diagnosis, referral, consultation, brokerage, counseling and crisis management. Develop, review and revise treatment plans of care with clients based on individual needs. Perform all paperwork punctually, in accordance with Medi-Cal and CBHS timelines. 5. Achieve a broad understanding of the resources and services available in the community for clients with acute behavioral health needs. Provide information and referral to clients on an ongoing basis. This may include information such as benefit entitlement, drug and alcohol treatment programs, vocational training, legal services, USCIS and immigration services, health and mental health services, housing and community resources. 6. Coordinate with Behavioral Health Counselors for shared clients and to inform group intervention designs. 7. Provide up-to-date and appropriate documentation of plans of care, client interactions, progress toward goals, and exit plans via the Avatar electronic charting and billing system. 8. Maintain ANSA (online assessment) certification annually. 9. Ensure that there is an updated PURQC (utilization review) for every open Medi-Cal chart. 10. Participate in weekly case conferencing and group supervision. 11. Participate in weekly individual supervision with the Associate Director of Behavioral Health. 12. Provide crisi…