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!