Behavioral Health Therapist

What You'll Do

Starting pay is approximately $77,000 based on location.

• Completes detailed screens, mental health evaluations and crisis services inclusive of suicide watch assessments within their scope of practice
• Provides clinical direction to lower level workers
• May serve as treatment team coordinator
• Conducts advanced practice individual and group clinical interventions as prescribed on the individual mental health treatment plan, using clinical intervention strategies within their scope of practice and directed by supervisor
• Provides clinical case management services to an assigned caseload, including the monitoring of the offender compliance with the mental health treatment plan
• Completes psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning
• Completes transfer and discharge summaries
• Consults with other institution staff regarding the mental health caseload inmate’s institutional adjustment and service needs
• Initiates and maintains contact with families and community agencies
• Provides and seeks information relative to patient care and treatment
• Makes appropriate community and re‑reentry referrals, per mental health treatment team
• Writes reports or documentation to include documentation of all inmate contacts, clinical case management progress note entries, discharge plans and miscellaneous forms and reports as needed per policy and protocol
• Attends meetings with supervision
• Attends in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development
• Participates in peer review as assigned

Qualifications

• Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board
• Or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board
• Or Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist (IMFT) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board

Job Skills

• Behavioral Health
• Basic Documentation
• Programming
• Professional
• Confidentiality
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus Decision Making
• Emotional Intelligence

DRC is a “qualifying employer” for purposes of the federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program.