JOB DESCRIPTION:
Assertive Community Treatment Team
Qualified Professional – Vocational Specialist

Definition:
A service provided by an interdisciplinary team that ensures service availability 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and is prepared to carry out a full range of treatment functions wherever and whenever needed. A service recipient is referred to the Assertive Community Treatment Team service when it has been determined that his/her needs are so pervasive and/or unpredictable that they cannot be met effectively by any other combination of available community services. Typically this service should be targeted to the 10% of MH/DD/SA service recipients who have serious and persistent mental illness or co-occurring disorders, dual and triply diagnosed and the most complex and expensive treatment needs. The service objectives are addressed by activities designed to: promote symptom stability and appropriate use of medication; restore personal, community living and social skills; promote and maintain physical health; establish access to entitlements, housing, work and social opportunities; and promote and maintain the highest possible level of functioning in the community.

ACT Teams should make every effort to meet critical standards contained in the most current edition of the National Program Standards for ACT Teams as established by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill or US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services. This service is delivered in a team approach designed to address the identified needs of specialized populations and/or the long term support of those with persistent MH/DD/SA issues that require intensive interventions to remain stable in the community. These service recipients would tend to be high cost, receive multiple services, decompensate to the point of requiring hospitalization before seeking treatment, seek treatment only during a crisis, or unable to benefit from traditional forms of clinic based services. This population has access to a variety of interventions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by staff that will maintain contact and intervene as one organizational unit. This team approach involves structured face-to-face scheduled therapeutic interventions to provide support and guidance in all areas of functional domains: adaptive, communication, personal care, domestic, psychosocial, problem solving, etc. in preventing, overcoming, or managing the recipient's level of functioning and enhancing his/her ability to remain in the community.

This service includes interventions that address the functional problems associated with the most complex And/or
pervasive conditions of the identified population. These interventions are strength based and focused on promoting symptom stability, increasing the recipient's ability to cope and
relate to others and enhancing the highest level of functioning in the community. ACTT provides ongoing
assertive outreach and treatment necessary to address the service recipient's needs effectively. Consideration of geographical locale may impact on the effectiveness of this service model. This model is primary a mobile unit, but includes some clinic based services. A service order for ACTT must be completed by a physician, licensed psychologist, physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner according to their scope of practice prior to or on the day that the services are to be provided.

Service Type:
ACTT is a direct and indirect periodic service where the ACTT staff provides direct intervention and also arranges, coordinates, and monitors services on behalf of the recipient. This service is
provided in any location.
ACTT are intended to be provided on an individualized basis. ACTT services are primarily provided in a range of community settings such as recipient’s home, school, homeless shelters, libraries, etc.

Responsibilities include:

• Serving as a Qualified Professional- Vocational Specialist on an ACT Team;
• Providing vocational services to all assigned individuals that meet the quality standards established and meet the individual needs and outcomes which have been identified;
• Ensuring that service environments meet the physical, social and developmental, and safety needs of all participants;
• Developing vocational and social skills to obtain community employment;
• Developing their understanding of community employment expectations;
• Understanding their vocational strengths and interests;
• Addressing individual barriers and vocational limitations;
• Enhancing employment readiness by routinely conducting employment classes/groups/ community based tours, etc;
• Improving decision making and interpersonal skills;
• Improving coping and problem solving skills;
• Developing maximum levels of independent functioning;
• Collecting, organize and analyze information about individuals and their performance necessary for vocational planning.
• Collaborating externally with (please include positions and/or levels of position as well as organizations, government offices, etc.) • Medicaid Service Coordinators
• School personnel- transition coordinators
• Family members and/or residential providers
• Employers

REQUIREMENTS:

• The ACT team shall provide an average of three contacts per week for all individuals.
• Program services are primarily delivered face-to-face with the consumer and in locations outside the Agency’s facility.
• The aggregate services that have been delivered by the agency will be assessed annually

for each provider agency using the following quality assurance benchmarks:
o A minimum of 80% of staff time must be face-to-face with the recipient. The remaining units may either be phone or collateral contacts; and
o Each team shall set a goal of providing 75% of service contacts in the community in non–office-based or non–facility-based settings.

• To ensure appropriate ACT team development, each new ACT team is recommended to titrate ACTT

intake (e.g., 4–6 individuals per month) to gradually build up capacity to serve no more than 100–120
individuals (with 10–12 staff) and no more than 42–50 individuals (with 6–8 staff) for smaller teams.

• TheACT team shall be available to provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support activities seven days per week.
• Itis recommended that ACT team schedules should follow the standards established in the National Program Standards for ACT Teams.
• Must participate in DMH/DD/SAS approved ACTT training with 90 days of employment.
• Document direct service delivery according to Medicaid and CSEUC standards to include: purpose of contact, describes the provider’s interventions, the time spent performing the intervention, the effectiveness of the interventions, the signature (degree, credentials or position) of the person providing the service.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Qualified professional: Education sufficient to meet State requirements for Qualified professional, i.e., Master's in human services field with one or more years of post-graduate experience with the population served or Bachelor’s in human service field with two or more years of post-graduate experience with the population served or Bachelor’s in non-human service field with four or more years of post-graduate experience with the population served.

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