Develop and maintain respectful, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, ethical, and recovery-oriented therapeutic relationships with individuals served.
Provide individual, family, and group psychotherapy utilizing evidence-based and clinically appropriate interventions based on each client’s diagnosis, presenting needs, functional impairments, treatment goals, and stage of change.
Complete comprehensive behavioral health assessments, psychosocial assessments, clinical formulations, and other required clinical evaluations to identify mental health needs, functional impairments, strengths, risks, and appropriate levels of care.
Develop, implement, monitor, and update individualized treatment plans in collaboration with clients, families or natural supports when appropriate, case managers, psychiatric providers, and other members of the multidisciplinary treatment team.
Conduct ongoing assessment of psychiatric symptoms, behavioral functioning, substance use, psychosocial stressors, treatment response, and changes in clinical presentation.
Conduct suicide, self-harm, violence, grave disability, and other clinically indicated risk assessments and develop appropriate safety and crisis response plans.
Provide crisis assessment, de-escalation, stabilization, and clinical intervention for clients experiencing acute psychiatric or psychosocial distress. Coordinate with crisis services, hospitals, law enforcement, and other emergency resources when clinically indicated.
Provide support to case managers regarding complex cases, symptom presentation, behavioral interventions, treatment engagement, risk factors, boundaries, and appropriate clinical responses.
Collaborate closely with psychiatric providers regarding psychiatric symptoms, medication adherence concerns, reported side effects, changes in functioning, and other clinically relevant observations.
Utilize evidence-based and recovery-oriented approaches, including motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral interventions, solution-focused interventions, trauma-informed care, psychoeducation, harm reduction, and other modalities appropriate to the population served.
Support clients experiencing serious mental illness in developing emotional regulation, coping, interpersonal, problem-solving, independent living, and community integration skills.
Provide clinical interventions in office, community, residential, telehealth, and other appropriate settings consistent with the FSP model and client needs.
Coordinate care with San Mateo County BHRS, hospitals, crisis programs, residential facilities, conservators, probation/parole, primary care providers, substance use treatment programs, housing providers, and other community partners.
Participate in discharge and transition planning for clients returning from psychiatric hospitalization, incarceration, residential treatment, crisis stabilization, or other higher levels of care.
Facilitate continuity of behavioral health services and assist clients in successfully transitioning between levels of care.
Provide clinical input regarding housing stability, employment, education, social supports, benefits, legal involvement, and other psychosocial factors affecting psychiatric stability and recovery.
Advocate for client preferences and treatment needs while maintaining appropriate communication with treatment teams, conservators, family members, and other authorized supports.
Complete timely, accurate, clinically appropriate documentation in accordance with Caminar policies, San Mateo County BHRS requirements, Medi-Cal documentation standards, and applicable state and federal regulations.
Complete progress notes, assessments, treatment plans, treatment plan reviews, discharge summaries, clinical consultations, risk assessments, and other required documentation within established timelines.
Participate in multidisciplinary case conferences, utilization reviews, clinical staffing, supervision, team meetings, and other care-coordination activities.
Monitor client progress toward treatment goals and modify clinical interventions based on treatment response, changes in functioning, emerging needs, and client preferences.
Support engagement and re-engagement efforts for clients who demonstrate difficulty maintaining consistent participation in behavioral health treatment.
Maintain professional boundaries and comply with confidentiality, informed consent, mandated reporting, HIPAA, and applicable legal and ethical requirements.
Maintain active BBS registration or licensure appropriate to the position and practice within the clinician’s authorized scope of practice.
Participate in individual and/or group clinical supervision as required by BBS regulations, agency policy, and professional development needs.
Complete required agency and county trainings and maintain competency in areas relevant to FSP services, serious mental illness, co-occurring disorders, crisis intervention, cultural responsiveness, trauma-informed care, and community-based behavioral health.
Contribute to a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and respectful team environment that promotes dignity, recovery, client autonomy, and social rehabilitation.
Assist program leadership with clinical quality improvement, documentation compliance, treatment effectiveness, and adherence to contractual, regulatory, licensing, and agency requirements.
Perform other clinical and program-related duties consistent with the clinician’s scope of practice and FSP program needs.
