Behavioral Health Clinician

Job Description

Job Description

Join our dynamic healthcare team as a Behavioral Health Clinician to provide  clinical assessment, counseling, and treatment planning for individuals experiencing  substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions . The role supports patients through detoxification, residential treatment, and outpatient recovery services.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts clinical screenings, interviews and bio-psychosocial evaluations in hospital district.
• Coordinates treatment with community, governmental and service providers.
• Conducts home and community visits as needed to provide substance abuse counseling to participants and their families.
• Observes, evaluates, and monitors reports and records program participant status and progress.
• Conducts clinical interviews and biopsychosocial evaluations.
• Conducts group and individual counseling sessions.
• Develops treatment plans with program participants and/or their families.
• Maintains associated clinical records manually and/or electronically using computer based applications.
• Prepares accurate and timely written reports on assigned caseload using computer based software applications.
• Observes, evaluates, monitors, reports and records client status and progress.
• Counsels program participants, including those with complex issues; facilitates intermediate and advanced group sessions concerning substance abuse and co-occurring related issues.
• Provides advocacy services to clients (greets family, obtains consent for medical exam, walks client to the exam room, provides emotional support during the examination, provides counseling service referrals and any other referrals family may need).
• Answers after hours calls from front desk, and from the 24-hour rape hotline.
• Assists with physical abuse intakes for Crisis Protection Team.
• Acts as an advocate between the families and law enforcement, state attorney's office, or child protective services to ensure that the needs and/or concerns of the client are being addressed.
• Links families to different agencies within the community, such as housing assistance, childcare, and foodbanks, to assist them with various needs.
• Assists clients with completing assistance applications.
• Participates in staff meetings and trainings as scheduled.
• Coordinates treatment with other community, governmental and service providers.
• Prepares accurate and timely written reports on assigned caseload as well as the quality and/or quantity of work completed.