Outreach Clinician

Description SCHEDULE

• 40 hours,
• Monday -
• Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm; may include nights, mornings, and weekends as needed.

Pays $71,676 - $89,596 annually DOE, (Salary ranges provided are based on relevant experience and skill set)

Location: 105 Chauncy Street, Boston MA

The Outreach Clinician is an essential position working 65% on the Streets of Boston and 35% in the office.

Summary of position

• The Outreach Clinician will work within a Specialized Outreach Program – Pathways to Recovery - designed for unsheltered individuals with SUD and COD.
• The OC, through targeted Outreach and assertive engagement will develop an individual community-based assessment with successful connections to appropriate levels of care based on ASAM criteria.
• The OC will play an important role in supporting clients through service transitions to ensure a soft landing and warm handoff from the street to recovery and housing.
• The OC will work as part of a specialized Outreach team and will leverage all recovery and housing resources which reduce barriers to services and housing.
• The OC will conduct community-based bio-psych-social assessments and provide immediate referral services.
• Each client will have varying support needs.
• The Outreach Clinician will work with clients to develop a Safe Placement and Stability plan.
• These services could include, but are not limited to crisis intervention and safety planning, connection to medication management, emergency services, assisting a guest in accessing detox or recovery services and other stabilization services as needed.
• Once the clinician and the client have established a Safe Placement and stability plan, the Outreach Clinician will participate in warm hand offs to internal and external providers for continued work toward permanent housing.
• The Outreach Clinician will work with community providers of health and behavioral health services to coordinate care plans for appropriate medical and behavioral health services.
• The Outreach Clinician will work within a best practice framework of Stages of Change Theory, Harm Reduction, Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-informed Care and will mitigate barriers to treatment and housing.