Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

NaphCare is hiring Clinicians to join our highly regarded and specialized Jail Based Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) that operates as an adult male intensive mental health unit to promote wellness and recovery at the Forsyth County Law Enforcement and Detention Facility in Winston Salem, NC.

The position is part-time, including two 8-hour dayshift weekend days (total of 16 hours).

The Clinician will conduct mental health assessments, develop individualized treatment plans, evaluate treatment goals, and provide individual and group therapy using psychoeducation, evidenced-based therapies, coping and social skills building, and support to improve patients’ symptoms of mental illness and/or disability, functioning, and overall well-being. The ideal candidate has experience working with serious mental illness and/or in a correctional setting, and in working within a multidisciplinary team.

The BHU unit is a therapeutic environment, providing intensive partial day treatment. By providing patient-centered, evidenced-based, and holistic care, the BHU helps patients living with mental illness and/or disability understand their need for treatment and provides the opportunities needed for these individuals to learn how to maximize their wellness and functioning within the facility’s general population. Following an approximate 12-week mental health psychoeducational and clinical curriculum, BHU graduates learn the skills and insight needed to move forward with their lives in a healthier place.

NaphCare is partnered with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office to provide this program, and the Clinician is an employee or contractor of NaphCare, Inc.

The Clinician will work with a team of other clinicians, discharge planner, psychiatric nurse practitioner, and mental health director to provide comprehensive mental health services on the BHU.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a contributing member of the multidisciplinary treatment team
• Conduct and document initial (or updates to existing) mental health assessments
• Perform and document treatment plans and treatment team review notes
• Maintain an individual caseload of BHU patients for individual treatment and documentation
• Conducts brief daily check-ins with individual caseload
• Provide group therapeutic and psychoeducational services
• Conduct crisis intervention and suicide/safety risk assessments as warranted
• Assist in outcomes assessments of the BHU patients (e.g., screening measures; data entry)
• Coordinate with health and correctional staff regarding patients’ mental health care
• Participate in educational and training activities related to mental health care for patients, security personnel, and healthcare staff
• Demonstrate knowledge of DSM-V-TR criteria and mental health practice standards

Qualifications

• Masters prepared candidate with active, unrestricted licensure as a clinician (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LPC, etc.) in the state of North Carolina
• Knowledge of the DSM-V-TR criteria and conditions
• Knowledge of evidenced-based and/or empirically informed treatments for serious mental illness and major mental disorders (e.g., neurodevelopmental disorders)
• At least 1 year of experience, including working with adults living with serious mental illness and/or in a correctional or adult inpatient mental health environment, preferred but not required

Physical Capabilities:

Must have the ability to stand for long periods, lift and move patients (up to 50 pounds), bend, squat, reach, push, pull, walk significant distances, and perform physically demanding tasks like CPR, all while maintaining good balance and endurance throughout a shift.

Why Join NaphCare?

NaphCare is one of the largest providers of healthcare services to correctional facilities throughout the US, and we are growing. If you have never considered a career in correctional healthcare, now may be the time. In addition to competitive salaries and generous employee benefits, we strongly support career advancement within the company.

NaphCare Benefits for Full-Time Employees Include:

• Health, dental & vision insurance that starts day one!
• Prescriptions free of charge through our health plan, beginning day one
• Lowest Cost Benefits!
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services
• 401K and Roth with company contribution that starts day one!
• Tuition Assistance
• Referral bonuses
• Term life insurance at no cost to the employee
• Generous paid time off & paid holidays
• Free continuing education and CMEs

Want a better idea of what it’s like to work in a jail? See what our MHPs do:

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If you would like to speak with me to learn more about this position and NaphCare, apply directly to the position to initiate the application process , and I’ll be in touch.

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