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:

NAVIGATE is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team designed to provide early and effective treatment to individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. NAVIGATE is a team-based approach and focuses on helping clients and their families to successfully find their way to psychological and functional well-being. The purpose of the NAVIGATE IRT is to promote recovery by identifying individual strength and resiliency factors, enhancing illness management, and teaching skills to facilitate functional recovery and to achieve and maintain personal wellness.

ESSENTIAL/CORE JOB-SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Individual Resilience Training: Assist clients on an individual and family basis in the office and in community. Develop an understanding and identification of symptoms, lessen distress, improve role functioning, and increase participation in and satisfaction with treatment and resiliency services. Assist clients in alleviating and managing symptoms and in promoting personal growth and development by establishing causality, constructing a personal history, and assisting clients in adapting to or coming to terms with having mental illness and its effects in daily life. Follow the NAVIGATE IRT Module to teach the client the information and skills in six main topics of their illness and goals of the module.

• Engagement and mental health assessments (i.e. CRAFFT)
• Utilization of a variety of mental health therapy modalities and techniques
• Development and support of goal development and attainment
• Teaching and educating of skills to improve daily living and overall functioning
• Collaboration with natural support system
• Utilize Contract and Fidelity Score sheets to track client’s progress/lack of progress in treatment and determine the necessary intervention

Treatment Team Meeting: Schedules individualized Treatment Team meetings a month in advance to ensure client’s natural supports are invited for participation and to complete service plan before its expiration. Offers input and feedback (i.e. new issues, client response to treatment, client’s progress/lack of progress on service plan) to review clients’ progress and goals for the treatment plan with each client.

Client Service Plan: Develops individualized Client Service Plans (CSP) in partnership with the client and the client’s families, focusing on addressing therapeutic treatment. Develops CSP’s that include measurable goals and objectives derived from the client’s assessment and identifies time frames for achievement on goals which are signed and dated by the client and client’s guardian, if applicable. Assists with the implementation of the service plan, and follows-up with the client’s services to determine the status and the effectiveness of CSP towards enhancing the client’s inclusion in the community and autonomy. Updates CSPs at least every 6 months. Makes appropriate changes in CSP to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put persons served at risk (e.g., suicidality, hospitalizations, relapse). CSP must incorporate items obtained using enhancement funds and explain how it promotes client’s recovery goals.

Progress Notes: Documents progress of persons served to maintain a permanent record of individual activity per established methods and procedures. Documentation must be finalized in Avatar within 48 hours from the time the services were rendered. Progress notes must be detailed and clearly reflect how the staff’s efforts are linked to the services and goals in the client’s service plan and the client’s progress or lack of progress relative to the service plan.

Education/Experience:

• Master’s 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.
• 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 use disorders preferred.
• Working experience in the community-based team/outpatient settings preferred.

Licensure or Certification:

• Must possess valid driver’s license.
• Maintain authorization as a designated driver in accordance with Agency policy.