The Bridge’s mission is to change lives, by offering help, hope, and opportunity to the most vulnerable in our community. We offer a comprehensive range of evidence-based rehabilitative services, including mental health and substance abuse treatment, housing, vocational training and job placement, healthcare, education, and creative arts therapies.
The Full Time Licensed Clinician is responsible for supporting the MHOTRS clients with a range of services including but not limited to comprehensive psychosocial assessments, individual and group psychotherapy, crisis interventions utilizing a variety of therapy techniques that can help with mental health issues, emotional challenges, and psychiatric disorders.
Essential Position Functions:
- Manage workload using centralized scheduling that will require advance planning and coordination with supervisory and administrative staff.
- Conduct screening and assessment in accordance with the use of validated screening tools to screen and assess for depression, trauma, substance use, and risk and needs associated with criminal risk.
- Develop recovery-oriented treatment plans and reviews in collaboration with the client, collaterals, and consented stakeholders such as significant others, criminal justice personnel, primary health care provider, care coordinator, and schools.
- Coordinate care with Bridge psychiatrists, nurse practitioner, and administrative staff and closely coordinate with others including Residential staff involved in providing services to your client.
- Use evidenced sequential screening for risk of violence and closely monitor risk and utilize risk management protocols to appropriately manage and intervene to effectively serve high risk clients.
- Document treatment contacts using collaborative documentation.
- Utilize best and evidence-based approaches to treatment consistent with The Bridge’s’ organizational culture; health/mental health integration, rehabilitation, and recovery, and understanding the impact of trauma on treatment engagement.
