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Sr Behavioral Health Clinician (LICSW or LMHC) - Brighton, MA

Commonwealth Care Alliance
United States, Massachusetts, Brighton
Jun 03, 2025
023730 Clin Alli-Maries Place

Position Summary:

We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Clinical Social Worker to join our team at the CCA Community Crisis Respite. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide essential support to individuals experiencing acute mental health crisis. As a senior clinician, you will play a pivotal role in assessing clients' needs, providing therapeutic interventions, and connecting clients with vital community resources. If you are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives on individuals facing behavioral health challenges, we invite you to apply for this rewarding position.

Supervision Exercised:

  • No, this position does not have direct reports.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Manage each aspect of the treatment and discharge planning process from admission through discharge.

  • Provide crisis intervention and short-term counseling to clients experiencing psychiatric distress.

  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members, including psychiatrists, APCs, nurses, and case managers, to ensure wraparound care for clients.

  • Works with the Nurse Manager (who may be employed by a partner organization) to provide clinical oversight to Mental Health Workers in how they conduct and document admissions, treatment plans, client daily documentation, and discharge summaries.

  • Ensure that the unit follows the daily schedule of program activities, client meetings, and groups.

  • Oversight of therapeutic groups as leader, co-leader, and observer.

  • Conduct comprehensive assessments of clients' mental health and social needs.

  • Maintain accurate documentation in the electronic medical record following appropriate clinical and regulatory requirements.

  • Continually evaluate and modernize relevant workflows and processes as they relate to the role and providing high quality care.

  • Maintains effective working relationships with DMH, ESP's, local community resources, and treatment/rehabilitation programs throughout the Greater Boston community.

  • Participate in daily rounds with multidisciplinary team and organizes follow up of identified issues for the unit and for the individual clients.

  • Performs all other duties and projects as assigned by supervisor.

Working Conditions:

  • Must be willing to work in a non-locked behavioral health setting.

  • Periodic need to travel to meetings at other sites.

  • Valid Driver's License

Other:

  • Standard office equipment

  • Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand. Employee must also be able to climb at least two flights of stairs.

Member Facing:

YES: The job has in-person contact (not telephonic/virtual) with CCA members or patients as part of the job duties.

Required Education (must have):

  • Master's Degree

Desired Education (nice to have):

  • Experience in acute care case management setting.

Required Licensing (must have):

  • LICSW/LMHC in the relevant jurisdiction for the job duties

MA Health Enrollment (required if licensed in Massachusetts):

  • Yes, this is required if the incumbent is licensed in Massachusetts.

Required Experience (must have):

  • 2- 5years

  • Minimally 2 years' experience working in an acute mental health setting with experience with individuals with addiction.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (must have):

  • Demonstrated skills in working as an effective team player in a fast-paced unit.

  • Demonstrated supervisory experience and familiarity with a range of behavioral health systems complexity including but not limited to continuum of care and resources.

  • Excellent writing, computer, and verbal communication skills.

Personal Characteristics:

  • Ability to work collaboratively as a member of multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams.

  • Demonstrated ability to work in a pressured situation and maintain clarity, focus, judgment, and compassion

  • Ability to provide leadership

  • Ability to identify problems and initiate solutions to problems

  • Ability to work with people in crisis in a hopeful and compassionate manner and model this for others.

  • Ability to work independently

  • Willing to learn and utilize telehealth technologies (video, chat, etc.), when appropriate, for a variety of clinical care and care management services.

Required Language (must have):

  • English

Desired Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Language (nice to have):

  • Bilingual preferred (Spanish)

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