ACT Dual Disorder Clinical Lead - $10,000 Hiring Bonus

$10,000 HIRING BONUS paid in installments: $5,000 after 6 months and $5,000 after 1 year!!

PA CADC/CAADC preferred upon hire; $2,000 per year increase after CADC/CAADC obtained

Base pay with the potential to receive additional compensation!!

*Meeting with consumers in community settings*

*Agency cars provided for any consumer transport*

On-call: $264.95/week with additional call out pay!!

Wesley Family Services offers the following benefits:

ALL EMPLOYEES:

• Tuition discounts - up to a 20% discount on tuition for certain degree programs at local partnering colleges
• Annual performance evaluations with pay increase eligibility
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free licensure supervision (minimum work hours may apply)
• WFS Wellness Center
• myStrength
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance

FULL TIME EMPLOYEES:

• 10 paid holidays + paid Celebration Day
• 15 paid time off days 1st year, 20 paid time off days 2nd year, continues to increase
• Tuition reimbursement for qualifying courses of up to $2,000 per semester or course ($6,000 per fiscal year maximum reimbursement)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of work)
• Two weeks paid parental leave
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid short term and long term disability insurance

Job Purpose/Summary

The ACTT Dual Disorder Clinical Lead supports the agency’s mission statement in assisting consumers to resolve problems and improve functioning, as well as contributes to the agency’s capacity to serve consumer, family, and community needs.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, or addiction counseling. Pennsylvania Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (PA CADC) or Pennsylvania Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (PA CAADC) or possesses the necessary pre-requisites and is willing to obtain the PA CAADC within 6 months of hire.

*Will consider applicants willing to obtain CADC/CAADC within 6 months of employment at the expense of Wesley Family Services*

Experience: 

• Minimum of 2 years of post-graduate clinical experience and licensure preferred.
• Experience working on an ACT team preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of drug and alcohol counseling experience. 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a leadership or supervisory role overseeing other employees. 

Licenses, Certifications & Clearances:  

• PA CADC or CAADC
• Act 33/34 Clearances
• FBI Clearance
• Valid State of PA Class 1 Drivers License
• Access to properly insured motor vehicle for client transportation and fieldwork and a safe driving record

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: 

• Exhibits ethical business behavior and maintains confidentiality of information and compliance as required by WFS policy.
• Ability to exhibit cultural sensitivity and to contribute to a work environment where diversity is welcomed and supported.
• Commitment to supporting the Quality Whole Person Care service philosophy and work-place culture. 
• Commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.
• Commitment to valuing a nurturing family as the ideal environment.
• Conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Ability to establish a respectful relationship with consumers and their families to help them gain skills and confidence.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other personnel and/or service providers or professionals.
• Capacity to maintain a helping role and intervene appropriately to meet service goals.
• Ability to set appropriate limits.
• Basic knowledge of normal and abnormal personality development.
• Basic knowledge of family systems and interactions.
• Ability to plan time sensitive, goal-directed treatment and to carry out treatment using individual, joint, marital, and group modalities. 
• Basic knowledge of treatment processes appropriate to a wide variety of diagnostic categories and ages. 
• Basic ability to evaluate treatment progress and request help when needed, relate non-defensively in supervision, and use suggestions appropriately. 
• Ability to manage time and assigned responsibilities to meet the production requirements of the agency. 
• Knowledge of education and intervention strategies related to both mental illness and substance abuse. 
• Knowledge of the basics of addiction, drinking/drug histories, recovery subcultures, family dynamics, mental health diagnoses and issues, disease concept of chemical dependency, drug and alcohol issues, interaction of addiction and mental illness, stages of change and related interventions, behavioral difficulties due to dual diagnosis, co-dependency and intervention strategies. 
• Knowledge of psychotropic medication, motivational interviewing, harm reduction (MISA model), BDAP confidentiality regulations, drug subcultures, and interventions.
• Ability to engage consumers. 
• Ability to understand developmental cognitive levels of each consumer.
• Ability to educate others about anger management as part of the recovery process. 
• Ability to demonstrate appropriate boundaries with MISA consumers. 
• Ability to time interventions and education to link consumers to treatment. 
• Ability to collaborate with other programs within and outside the agency. 
• Ability to help move consumers forward in recovery which maintaining their autonomy. 
• Ability to connect consumers with social supports (e.g., Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, and DRA meetings) in cooperation with peer support. 
• Ability to include families in the recovery process. 
• Ability to discern and flow with the fluctuating nature of dual diagnosis and provide competent and appropriate intervention and education. 
• Knowledge of PA Client Placement Criteria (PCPC) and the willingness to be trained in this area for the pursuit of proper placement, if the need for rehab or detox is required. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Engages consumers in conducting assessments, determining goals, developing a treatment service plan, and providing various therapeutic and educational methods to achieve desired outcomes.

• Utilizes time sensitive modalities and methods of therapy, routinely evaluates with the consumer progress towards achievement of goals, and terminates within allotted time frames.

• Develops the capacity to employ diverse brief treatment modalities relevant to consumers, families, children, and couples. 

• Provides crisis intervention and facilitates emergency procedures. 

• Assesses the effects of social, cultural, and community factors on consumers’ lives, identifies and networks with internal and external resources, advocates for consumers, refers consumers, and collaborates around consumer concerns to facilitate smooth transitions.

• Maintains the productivity expectation of the program for services. Schedules flexibly to serve both new and existing consumers.

• Completes agency and other statistical reports, case recordings, and other appropriate regulatory forms.  Monitors chart for timely completeness and program utilization review. Participates in program evaluation, outcome studies, and research projects.

• Possesses knowledge of and adheres to current third-party payer criteria, communicates with authorizing personnel, completes required documentation, advocates for consumer needs, and promotes program services.

• Identifies areas for program improvement, communicates ideas to the ACT Coordinator in meetings, develops areas of expertise related to program needs, and participates on staff committees.

• Develops and maintains an understanding of the agency’s mission and programs in interpreting services to consumers, the public, and other agencies. Participates in educational presentations to various consumer, community, public, and professional groups. Contacts and familiarizes referral sources with agency services.

• Utilizes supervision, consultation, professional development, and training opportunities. Develops and conducts staff training in area(s) of expertise.

• Participates with staff from other programs in the development and implementation of innovative projects.  Serves on Mission, Vision, Philosophy (MVP) panels and teams.

• Addresses all issues of fraud, waste, and/or abuse as they arise and proactively looks for ways to prevent instances of fraud, waste, and abuse in the service delivery system and work systems of the agency as described in the agency compliance plan.

• Performs other tasks specific to the services provided as follows in ACT:
  • Ongoing comprehensive assessment of the consumer’s mental illness symptoms, accurate diagnosis, and the consumer’s response to treatment
  • Psychoeducation regarding mental illness and the effects and side effects of prescribed medications
  • Symptom management efforts directed to help each consumer identify and target the symptoms and occurrence patterns of their mental illness, as well as develop methods (e.g., internal, behavioral, or adaptive) to help lessen the effects
  • Individual supportive therapy
  • Empirically supported psychotherapy (e.g., DBT, CBT, IDDT)
  • Generous psychological support to consumers, both on a planned and as needed basis, to help them accomplish their personal goals, cope with the stressors of day-to-day living, and recover
  • Completes initial and opening assessments of new referrals and assesses readiness for graduation
  • Due to increased duties, productivity is decreased accordingly

How to Apply:

You can submit through Handshake, but also go to our website directly at: wfspa.org/careers

Quality Whole Person Care® is Wesley Family Services’ service philosophy that aims to enhance the clinical care provided to individuals served while also helping to strengthen the way we support one another as colleagues. WFS has embedded QWPC practices which emphasize every person has value in all aspects of services and work-place culture.

WFS is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policies for both current and prospective employees prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin (including limited English proficiency), age, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender identity, gender transition, gender identity, gender expression, disability, pregnancy, or military/veteran status.