Job description:
Job Summary
The Mental Health Professional III is to deliver exceptional, patient-focused care by providing supervised mental health services to patients and their loved ones. Their responsibilities include conducting assessments, offering psycho-education, leading process groups, developing treatment plans, and facilitating therapeutic counseling sessions using evidence-based interventions in one-on-one, family, and group therapy.
Job Responsibilities
- Conducts one-on-one, group, and family psychoeducational and process groups.
- Develops treatment plans and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.
- Assesses environment and patients safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.
- Identifies risk factors, screening criteria, and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).
- Completes assessments, group notes, and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patients discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.
- Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.
Qualifications:
Qualifications
- Masters Degree in Social Work or Counseling form an accredited university required
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Required
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Prior experience working with psychiatric mental health population, preferably in an inpatient setting.
- Prefer case management, discharge planning, group leadership skills, age specific growth and development, crisis and behavior management, family therapy theory and practice
Why is This a Great Opportunity:
Great Benefits!