Psychotherapist

Psychotherapist

Job Category: Behavioral Health & Wellness

Full-Time

On-site

Kansas City, MO 64130, USA

Travel Required: No

Description

Get ready for something amazing! Imagine this: generous paid time off, including 12 paid holidays. And that's just the start of the incredible perks you'll enjoy at Vivent Health. There is 401k with 100% employer match up to 5%, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, employer subsidized medical, dental, vision benefits, and gender-affirming care benefits. And that's not even scratching the surface. Our complete package also includes employer paid short and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement, certification, and licensure assistance, and so much more. We also offer benefits for part-time roles!

But here's the real deal. Your journey with Vivent Health isn't just a job. It's a chance to join an organization dedicated to fostering a workforce that reflects diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. This makes you a part of something bigger and enables you to have a meaningful impact in our communities and the lives of the amazing patients we serve.

Here are a few highlights of what working at Vivent Health may offer you:

• Equity Practices: Fair treatment, access, and opportunities for all employees, creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for professional development and advancement, along with training programs and events that promote cultural competence, unconscious bias training, and awareness.
• Collaboration on an inter-disciplinary team: Within our integrated HIV care and prevention model, we employ a high level of collaboration across disciplines. That means that, in your role, you will have the opportunity to be exposed to whole person-care across medical, behavioral health, pharmaceutical, research, and more!
• Delivery of quality patient care: Our integrated HIV care and prevention model is proven to help patients achieve positive health outcomes.

Your Contribution:

Deliver Excellence. Oversee with Integrity. Drive Progress. Exceed Expectations.

The Therapist in the Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic provides competent, patient-centered, best-practice and evidence-based behavioral health and wellness services under the supervision of the Director of Behavioral Health and Wellness. The primary purpose of this position is to enhance the Clinic's capacity to provide psychotherapy including individual, couple, and family services in the clinic that are high quality and patient centered. To this end, the Therapist will conduct intake, assessment, treatment planning and therapy throughout the care and discharge processes, including follow-up care.

However, the Therapist is also expected to participate in the delivery of other behavioral health and wellness services that are guided by educational, psycho-educational, and psychotherapeutic perspectives and at various levels of practice. Furthermore, the Therapist must have an appreciation for the "business behind the business" and be willing to engage in various administrative tasks and duties that support and enhance departmental functioning.

The Therapist reports directly to the Director of Behavioral Health and Wellness. The Therapist is responsible for service.

Our Expectations:

Winning skills and behaviors for success

• Participate in the delivery of a variety of behavioral health and wellness services including educational, psycho-educational and psychotherapeutic interventions at various levels of practice, giving primacy to individual, couple, and family psychotherapy. This includes on-call/after-hours care. This may require obtaining additional training, specialized expertise, certification, and/or licensure.
• Participate in administrative tasks related to a variety of behavioral health and wellness services (e.g., program and policy development/maintenance, marketing, research activities) including assisting with the financial/billing tasks of providing patient care.
• Keep abreast of the changing developments in the treatment of HIV and mental health/substance use conditions.
• The Therapist (in conjunction with the Director of Behavioral Health and Wellness) ensures that all his/her clinic mental health patients receive quality assessments and an accurate diagnosis including initial screening and appropriate referral for substance use disorders, facilitates admission to treatment facilities and provide follow-up interventions as necessary.
• Prepare, formulate and evaluate an appropriate treatment plan for each assigned patient, based on assessment and diagnosis, focusing on improving each patients' total quality of life.
• Manage each treatment plan in consultation with appropriate persons and service providers.
• Act as a liason between patients and their collateral contacts.
• Prepare accurate and timely reports, correspondence and patient record documentation.
• Ensure that all necessary information, documents, and evaluations are in the official case record.
• Develop knowledge of and maintain regular communication with the emerging specialized service providers and other circles of care/treatment providers (agency and community resources) to facilitate patient access and to continually coordinate care.
• Actively participate in the Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic staff meetings, individual and group supervision sessions, and continuing education events/trainings.
• Regularly report to the Director of the Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic on all assigned responsibilities.
• Any and all other duties assigned by the Director of Behavioral Health and Wellness.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Adherence to all agency policies, including Confidentiality, Employee Handbook, Health Care Corporate Compliance Plan, Standards of Conduct, and other relevant policies.

Knowledge Required:

Required and preferred knowledge and experiences to succeed.

• An accredited Master's degree in one of the following disciplines: Social Work, Counseling, or Marriage and Family Therapy.
• Licensure as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), or LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) in the state of service.
• Experience providing in-person, video-based and telephone-based therapy.
• Experience in providing behavioral health and wellness services, both mental health and substance abuse services.
• Knowledge of, and a skill base for behavioral health and wellness programming, both mental health and substance abuse services.
• Knowledge of and experience treating co-occurring disorders.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to the HIV/AIDS patient population, and/or an eagerness to learn about this community.
• Understanding of a variety of best-practices and evidence-based practices in behavioral health and wellness.
• Demonstrated commitment to cultural sensitivity and cultural accountability.
• An understanding that as a therapist in the Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic, you serve as one member of team offering services.
• Will value diversity and provide equitable treatment to patients, clients, champions and others.
• Ability to be flexible in hours.
• Working knowledge of Spanish language (bilingual) is a plus.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• HIV experience in a not-for-profit environment.

Statement of Inclusion:

Vivent Health is an equal opportunity employer and will recruit, hire, promote, and transfer qualified persons into all job classifications regardless of race, gender, religion, skin color, national origin or ancestry, physical disability (including pregnancy), mental disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, legally protected medical condition, family care status, marital status, veteran status, genetic characteristics, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. Vivent Health complies with other expanded protected classifications that specific county or municipal regulations may mandate.

Vivent Health is deeply committed to fostering respect, dignity, and understanding for all individuals affected by HIV, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic. We are dedicated to cultivating a supportive and inclusive environment that champions advocacy, education, and compassionate care for everyone in our diverse community.

Going beyond the law's requirements, Vivent Health places great importance on fostering a culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively seek qualified candidates from different racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds, as we believe that differing perspectives and experiences make us stronger as an organization. Vivent Health encourages all interested persons to apply for this position, and we look forward to learning more about your unique background and qualifications.

As a recipient of federal funding, Vivent Health will not hire nor enter a contractual relationship with any party debarred, suspended, or excluded from federal assistance programs.

Salary Starting at $70,000/annually (Depending on Experience) The final salary will be determined based on factors such as market data, internal equity, candidate experience and qualifications. Please note that it is uncommon for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range.

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