Behavioral Health Clinician - ACT (Gwinnett / Rockdale / Newton).

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide intensive mental health treatment services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness in their homes and other community settings-24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. ACT is often referred to as a “hospital without walls” and its goal is to keep individuals out of state hospitals, jails, emergency rooms and other institutions. ACT clients must meet a strict criterion (i.e., diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness, unable to maintain activities of daily living, and be unsuccessful in other forms of treatment). ACT clients often have no resources and no family support and require an intensive and expeditious form of treatment. Under broad supervision, performs psychosocial assessments, treatment planning / monitoring and discharge planning. Provides counseling / therapy to clients requiring complex intervention. Performs commitment determinations and / or executes orders of involuntary commitments. May serve as a team leader.

Behavioral Health Clinician - ACT (Gwinnett / Rockdale / Newton) :

Master's degree in a related area from an accredited college or university AND eligibility to be licensed AND Two years of supervised experience in the area of assignment.