Behavioral Health Counselor

Site: North Shore Medical Center, Inc.

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Job Summary
The Inpatient Adult Psychiatry Staff Clinician is a Masters prepared clinician who has clinical responsibilities related to the treatment of patients on the Inpatient Adult Psychiatry service. The staff clinician provides needed psychosocial assessments, diagnoses, collaborates daily with an interdisciplinary team, formulates treatment plans, coordinates care with families and outside providers. Clinician provides case management and discharge planning services, family support, and individual (and potentially group) treatment of patients on the inpatient psychiatric unit. The person in this position also complies with all governmental and other regulatory group requirements for documentation and care standards.

Additional Responsibilities:
Demonstrate familiarity with DSM5 criteria, major mental illnesses and substance use disorders, be able to work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary treatment team in a busy, fast-paced environment, be well-organized and manage time effectively.

Qualifications

Sign on Bonuses offered!

This exciting and fast-paced career opportunity is for a masters-level clinician to work with a dynamic interdisciplinary treatment team to provide inpatient case management services including completing psychosocial assessments, formulating interdisciplinary treatment plans, coordinating and networking care with families and outpatient providers, conducting treatment and discharge planning meetings, crisis and safety planning, arranging aftercare for patients who are in treatment for major mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders. Work may be with adult and older adult/geriatric populations. Conducting reviews with insurance companies may at times be required.

Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital Epstein Center for Behavioral Health houses four inpatient psychiatric units which are 30 beds each - one pediatric/adolescent unit, two adult units and one older adult/senior psychiatry unit. The psychiatry service also includes adolescent and adult partial hospitalization programs, a substance use intensive outpatient program, a bridge clinic and three outpatient behavioral health clinics. Salem Hospital qualifies for federally funded loan forgiveness status.

Salem Hospital is a member of the Mass General Brigham Health Care Network which includes Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, McLean Hospital, Newton Wellsley Hospital and other MGH institutions.

Masters Degree required

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

Full-time float position for two adult inpatient mental health units and, potentially, an older-adult inpatient unit.

Remote Type

Onsite

Work Location

1 Dove Avenue

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Employee Type

Regular

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Pay Range
$55,390.40 - $80,485.60/Annual

Grade
6

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EEO Statement:

3200 North Shore Medical Center, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran's Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at View phone number on click.appcast.io.

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