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Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties).
Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more.
Overview:
Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team dedicated to delivering intensive community-based support to the severely and persistently mentally ill adult population. The purpose of the FACT Licensed Therapist is to be a part of the multidisciplinary treatment team designed to help individuals maintain stable functioning in the community as the primary provider of community based mental health treatment, rehabilitation, self-management counseling, integrated dual disorder treatment. FACT Therapist’s responsibilities are specifically tailored to each client based on symptoms, diagnosis, and specific treatment needs to include mental health/substance abuse treatment, education, as well as needed support and consultation to families using a variety of strategies and available therapeutic modalities. Services and service frequency should accurately reflect the individual needs, goals, and abilities of each recipient. The FACT Therapist will also provide cross training to other staff to enhance the knowledge and skills of the team in developing and utilizing supportive and therapeutic approaches with clients in the program.
Shift: Hours will vary on a rotation basis which will include some weekends, evenings, and on-call coverageSalary: $62,400.00-$66,560.00
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Experience: • Masters degree with from an accredited university or college with a major in the field of counseling, social work, psychology, nursing, rehabilitation, special education, health education, or a related human services field. • Licensed or certified by the state of Florida as LMHC, LCSW, LMFT, or Psychologist.• Two years of professional experience in providing services to persons with psychiatric and behavioral illness preferred. • Professional experience working with persons with severe mental illness include Substance Abuse/Dependence disorders and Personality disorders preferred.• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) experience working in community setting consistent with the PACT model of service delivery preferred.
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