Mental Health Therapist: LCSW - Arnold Palmer Hospital, Adolescent Medicine - Downtown Orlando

Mental Health Professional

Works with patients to promote optimum mental and emotional health.

Responsibilities Essential Functions

• Develops comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressions responsive to age-appropriate patients/family's needs and concerns.
• Provides differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
• Diagnoses biopsychosocial functioning, disability, and impairment for the age-appropriate patients/families.
• Develops treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven and outcomes-focused with the patient/family and healthcare team.
• Develops an effective working relationship with patients/families to engage, collaborate, advocate, and problem-solve in order to support and enhance their mental health strengths and functioning ability.
• Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions, included but are not limited to crisis intervention, solution focused therapy, individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy, grief and bereavement counseling, play therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mental status exams.
• Initiates Baker Act.
• Facilitates Marchman Act when appropriate.
• Facilitates patient's psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to the next level of care.
• Provides mental health education, information, consultation, and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the healthcare team members and colleagues within the department.
• Demonstrates initiative and leadership in developing mental health services that respond to patient care demands.
• Identifies practice based on continuous quality improvement.
• Maintains an up-to-date, accurate, and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients' medical chart, which does not violate confidentiality.
• Meets department/hospital expectations of growth goals set forth by coaching plans.
• Performs independently and provides clinical practice in a health care setting.
• Supervises and participates in teaching within the department, hospital, and community.
• When appropriate for the clinical setting, has subspecialty credentialing (i.e., sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT).
• Coordinates care and related functions appropriate for the patient population.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions

• Maintains and enhances knowledge of human growth and development of the neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations through educational opportunities and meets expectations set forth by hospital and departmental standards.
• Pursues opportunities for obtaining continuing education asset by department policy.
• Participates in strengthening the community through local, regional, state, or national activities.

Qualifications

• Education/Training: Master's degree.
• Licensure/Certification: Maintains Florida state (Chapter 491 Florida Statutes) licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Handle with Care (HWC) Certification required for Behavioral Health Unit.
• Experience: Two (2) years of direct clinical experience, preferably in a health or mental health setting, with an emphasis on the population to be served in the assigned area.
• Bilingual: English/Spanish preferred.
• Previous pediatrics/adolescents experience a plus.
• Previous experience with eating disorders preferred.