Acute Clinical Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits (insurance, 401k, paid sick and time off, etc.)
• Loan forgiveness eligibility 

Responsibilities

Provide support, individual, group and/or family therapy for MBH patients and families, as needed.

Assist in developing treatment-planning goals/objectives with patients, families and treatment team members.

Responsible for youth intake, assessment of youth, development and completion of intake documentation (psychosocial); assist with case management of patients.

Provide crisis intervention as needed.

Disseminate agency and program information to social service agencies, churches, childcare institutions, etc. as needed.

Responsible for ensuring that all documentation on patients is current and complete (i.e., psychosocial, treatment plans, updates, discharge documents, & other documents as designated).

Serve as a liaison for patients with other social service agencies.

Coordinate appropriate referrals as needed.

Provide ongoing assessment and treatment planning consultation.

Assist patients with appropriate discharge planning.

Provide client/family follow-up care as needed.

Assist with pre-service and/or in-service training in areas of expertise as needed.

Assist in preparation for, and help maintain compliance with Licensing, Medicaid and Joint Commission standards.

Keeps detailed and accurate documentation of all pertinent client information.

Attend regular treatment team staff meetings and provide pertinent input regarding client concerns, progress, etc.

Responsibility assumed for continuing educational and professional development and contributions made to the professional growth of others. 

Documentation of continuing education, etc., will be provided to the human resource department and copies kept in the employee’s record.

May be responsible at times for covering duties of other therapists and/or case managers as assigned in their absence.

Cover weekends and evenings as needed.

The individual employed in this position may accept other reasonable assignments, which may be necessary for efficient operation of assigned programs as there is time and opportunity.

Note:

This position will be evaluated by the Director of Clinical Services, the Hospital Administrator and/or the MFH Executive Committee at least every two years.

Qualifications

Master’s Degree in applicable field.

Must hold valid License as a LAC, LPC, LMSW, LCSW, or LPE.

Ability to document accurately and professionally.

Ability to understand and implement extensive training and to apply that training to the implementation of a comprehensive program of care for patients.

Ability to perform physical demands required by Crisis Prevention Intervention.

Ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress fast paced position with minimal supervision.

Must remain current in Crisis Prevention Intervention Training and CPR/FA.

Requires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.

Experience working with “at-risk” youth or other populations with special needs preferred.

Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions. Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.

Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability. Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.

Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.

Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.

Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.

Flu vaccinations are mandatory and required for all positions (subject only to qualified exemptions).

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work he or she is performing during the overtime hours. 

Level One - Full Access:  Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure.  "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians)