Behavioral Health Counselor

About the Company:

Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) is a private, nonprofit mental health agency that is committed to advocating for and providing community-based, consumer-guided services. RAMS offers behavioral health, social, vocational, and educational services that aim to meet the needs of diverse communities in the City.

Our agency is recognized by the local and national social service community as having expertise in providing culturally competent mental health services to the underserved, with expertise in working with the Asian & Pacific Islander and Russian-speaking populations.

About the Program

The CAAP Counseling and Pre-Vocational Services program provides culturally competent, brief behavioral health counseling and pre-vocational services to participants of the County Adult Assistance Program (CAAP). CAAP serves adults without dependent children, who may be coping with mental health, substance use, and/or homelessness. The CAAP program is a collaborative effort with San Francisco Human Services Agency.

Essential Job Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct brief biopsychosocial assessments to determine a client’s suitability for work assignments, mental health counseling or other referrals.
• Participate in and facilitate client outreach at navigation centers, shelters, and/or SROs, etc. in San Francisco to further support client engagement in various city and county programs
• Provide culturally sensitive, short-term (up to 4 months), mental health and substance use counseling to individuals and groups, along with case management
• Consult and collaborate with clients, case managers, and internal/external providers to coordinate client care.
• Maintain timely administrative and clinical records related to client care, per standards specified by RAMS policies, clinical standards, and oversight agencies (e. g. HSA, DPH, etc.) in Epic
• Provide crisis intervention as needed.
• Provide consultation to HSA staff concerning client care.
• Participate in case conferences, clinical team and staff meetings.
• Provide referrals to resources, both within the HSA program and other agencies within the city of San Francisco.
• Participate in individual & group supervision (hours may be obtained toward LCSW/LMFT/LPCC licensure).
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• MS/MA in Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy, Professional Clinical Counseling, Social Work, or related field, from an accredited institution
• Current BBS or Board of Psychology licensure (Band 4) or registration (Band 3), or eligibility or pending application for Board registration upon hire,
• At least one year of direct service-provider experience in a similar community-based organization and setting, providing similar mental/behavioral health counseling and consultation services to underserved clients in the populations served at the RAMS program
• Knowledge of and demonstrated experience utilizing a variety of treatment & recovery models including short-term counseling/therapy strategies, vocational rehabilitation, group therapy processes & approaches, and wellness recovery principles in working with clients who have mental health & substance abuse, or co-occurring substance use problems, and parenting issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in engaging target population, engaging participants in small and large group activities, and conducting prevocational workshops
• Familiarity with community behavioral health systems of care in San Francisco Bay Area, philosophy of care, levels of care for clinical services, and the delivery of such services, highly preferred
• Familiarity with the San Francisco community resources/services (may include health, mental health, substance abuse, vocational, housing, etc), highly preferred
• Prior training in and use of Electronic Health Recordkeeping, i. e. Epic, for clinical documentation, highly preferred
• Applicants with ability to provide bilingual & culturally competent services in Cantonese, Tagalog, Russian, Vietnamese, or Spanish, PREFERRED, in order to meet the needs of populations served.