Psychologist/LCSW/LPC/LMFT

The Company

Serving the following counties: Fulton, Clayton, Rockdale, Cobb, DeKalb

Elite Care, Inc. provides behavioral health services intended to improve family functioning by clinically stabilizing the living arrangement, promoting reunification or preventing the utilization of out of home therapeutic venues (i.e. psychiatric hospital, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, or residential treatment services) for the identified youth. Services are delivered utilizing a team approach and are provided primarily to youth in their living arrangement and within the family system. Services promote a family-based focus in order to:

• Defuse the current behavioral health crisis, evaluate its nature and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence;

• Ensure linkages to needed psychiatric, psychological, medical, nursing, educational, and other community resources, including appropriate aftercare upon discharge (i.e. medication, outpatient appointments, etc.); and

• Improve the individual child’s/adolescent’s ability to self-recognize and self-manage behavioral health issues, as well as the parents’/responsible caregivers’ capacity to care for their children.

License & Experience

One fulltime Team Leader who is licensed (and/or certified as a CAC II if the target population is solely diagnosed with substance related disorders) by the State of Georgia under the Practice Acts and has at least 3 years of experience working with children with severe emotional disturbances. AMFT, LMSW, APC staff do not qualify for this position.

Job Responsibilities

Convene, at least weekly, team meetings that serve as the way to staff a child with the team, perform case reviews, team planning, and to provide for the team supervision and coordination of treatment/supports between and among team members. Weekly time for group supervision and case review is scheduled and protected.

Meet at least twice a month with families face-to-face or more often as clinically indicated.

Provide weekly, individual, clinical supervision to each IFI team member (outside of the weekly team meeting) for all services provided by that member of the IFI team. The individual supervision process is to be one-on-one supervision, documented in a log, with appropriate precautions for individual confidentiality and indicating date/time of supervision, issues addressed, and placed in the personnel file for the identified IFI team staff.

Be dedicated to a single IFI team (“Dedicated” means that the team leader works with only one team at least 32 hours/week [up to 40 hours/week] and is a full-time employee of the agency [not a subcontractor/1099 employee]). The Team Leader is available 24/7 to IFI staff for emergency consultation/supervision.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40.00 - $45.00 per hour