Community Mental Health Therapist – ACT Team

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Exton (PA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke’s University Health Network seeks a Mental Health Professional for the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team.

You will deliver in-person, community-based services, including counseling, medication support, and crisis management to individuals with severe mental illness. Responsibilities include developing treatment goals, coordinating services, and providing both individual and group psychotherapy in the field.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or other recognized clinical graduate degree required.
• Minimum of two years of direct-service experience with individuals with mental health diagnoses.

Responsibilities

• Meet with ACT participants—in their homes and other community venues—to provide in vivo services which improve quality of life and maintain community tenure.
• Provide medication service—including delivery of medications and observation of ingestion—as directed by the team psychiatrist, nursing staff, and Team Leader.
• Develop, write, implement, evaluate, and revise treatment goals in collaboration with ACT staff.
• Provide on-call crisis services on a rotating schedule to cover program needs.
• Provide one-on-one psychotherapy in the field to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness using evidence-based therapies.
• Provide group psychotherapy to ACT participants to address symptoms and build coping skills.

Education

Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling

Job description

St. Luke’s University Health Network seeks a Mental Health Professional for the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team.

You will deliver in-person, community-based services, including counseling, medication support, and crisis management to individuals with severe mental illness. Responsibilities include developing treatment goals, coordinating services, and providing both individual and group psychotherapy in the field.