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QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Master’s degree in Social Work or Mental Health Nursing or Ph.D./Psy.D. in Psychology or related field
Experience/Skills
- 2+ years relevant experience
- Assesses, plans, and implements therapeutic services in a multidisciplinary setting
- Possesses therapy and assessment skills
- Knowledgeable about needs and treatment of mental health diagnosis
- Applies a variety of treatment philosophies to varying patient treatment responses
- Works under pressure and meets deadlines
- Sets and maintains therapeutic distance with clients
- Maintains therapeutic boundaries during treatment and following discharge
Required Licenses/Certifications
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Clinical Psychologist or Clinical Nurse Specialty
- CPR
Working Conditions
- Some hazard potential from physically acting-out patients and health-related communicable diseases
- Travel to speaking engagements or other activities may be required
ROUTINE RESPONSIBILITIES
Behavioral Expectations
- Consistently complies with established Behavioral Expectations
Patient Care
- Reviews daily with individual patients their responses to events and interactions of previous day and evening
- Completes psychosocial history and summary or updates of admission within 5 treatment days of admission
- Conducts assessments
- Develops Treatment Plans within ten (10) treatment days of admission and participates as a team member in the Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning Conference
- Implements and reviews Treatment Plans with patients
- Provides treatment coordination with assigned patients
- Evaluates data from all sources and recommends referrals as needed
- Assesses patients and families for possibility of family therapy
- Provides or refers out family therapy as deemed necessary by self and other team members
- Assists in formulating Discharge Plan
- Provides therapeutic services to patients and their families in relations to:
- Functional impairments related to their mental health diagnosis and behaviors resulting from the psychodynamics of their illness
- Emotional problems between family and patients in coping with mental health diagnosis
- Psycho-education about their illness and aids in coping and improving their quality of life
- Other duties assigned as needed
Documentation
- Documents Case Conferences for problematic cases
- Documents patients’ participation and individual interactions daily in medical record
- Completes patient charge sheets daily
- Enters notes within 48 hours after the client’s appointment
- Updates PHQ9s and GAD7s each quarter
Miscellaneous
- Participate in in-service training and team meetings
- Participate in public relations, develops referral sources and provides community education
- Participate in maintaining patient safety standard
- Comply with and implements hospital and department policies and procedures.
- Provide information to Referral Sources within confidentiality guidelines
- Work together with other departments when they need help in services development
- Develop and maintain working relationship between the Service and other hospital departments and outside community agencies. Understand and utilize confidentiality related to patients and staff
- Orients new staff members to counseling discipline within the Services
- Keeps Director informed of patient needs and community issues
- Pursues continuing competency per patient population
- Effectively utilize knowledge of age appropriate developmental needs and abilities in the assessment, treatment and education of patients and families.
Full time/Day shift
80 hours/Biweekly
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