Therapist - ACT

**OVERVIEW** Provides direct psychotherapy, crisis intervention, stabilization, and care coordination to Seriously and Persistently Mentally Ill (SPMI) adult clients enrolled in Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). This position is shared across both ACT teams, working 2.5 days per week with ACT South and 2.5 days per week with ACT North, delivering services primarily in clients\' homes and communities consistent with the ACT model. Work is performed under general supervision by the ACT Coordinator and is guided by agency policies and procedures, quality assurance, public and private payor guidelines, diagnostic guidelines and professional practices, including ethical standards related to client interactions, state and federal licensure and accreditation regulations and guidelines. **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** - Provides direct individual, family and group psychotherapy, to Seriously and Persistently Mentally Ill (SPMI) adults enrolled in Assertive Community Treatment, dividing time across both the ACT South and ACT North teams (2.5 days per team per week). - Conducts intake interviews, diagnostic assessments, and develops and updates individualized treatment plans in collaboration with each ACT team\'s interdisciplinary staff. - Provides crisis intervention, de-escalation and stabilization services to ACT clients experiencing psychiatric or behavioral crises, including in home and community settings and facilitates admission to Crisis Stabilization programs or inpatient psychiatric facilities as needed, if community stabilization is not feasible. - Conducts risk assessments and classifies the clinical and legal disposition of clients in crisis, determining appropriate level of care, referral, or need for hospitalization. - Consults and liaises with psychiatric, nursing and case management staff on both ACT teams, as well as hospitals, courts, social services, state offices, and other community agencies to coordinate client services. - Delivers therapeutic services primarily through home and community-based visits consistent with the ACT service delivery model, in addition to office-based sessions. - Responds to program calls and phone inquiries from clients, families, and referral sources for both ACT South and ACT North. - Inputs psychological and service data into the electronic records system and prepares and maintains case documentation, including treatment plans, progress notes, and periodic assessments. - Completes and submits insurance authorization paperwork and Medicaid billing documentation for services rendered on both teams. - Participates in daily ACT team meetings, interdisciplinary, interagency and community-based meetings for both ACT South and ACT North. - Provides expert testimony in court and other legal proceedings as needed, including matters related to involuntary hospitalization. - Coordinates with other ACT team members to facilitate the provision of medical services, such as delivering and monitoring medications, scheduling and providing transportation to appointments, including those with medical practitioners, family and community resources; - Provides case coordination, benefits, and housing assistance. - Does related work as assigned. **KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES** Thorough knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill, emotionally disturbed and substance use population, including crisis intervention and stabilization principles and practices as applied within an Assertive Community Treatment model; thorough knowledge of individual, family and group treatment modalities and techniques related to clinical casework with the SPMI population; thorough knowledge of the medical providers, social services and other agencies and community organizations providing services to the individual population; considerable knowledge of individual management guidelines for Virginia; considerable knowledge of the laws and legal procedures relating to voluntary and involuntary hospital admissi…