Program Therapist

Overview

Required skills & experience (the 3 “must haves” to be considered): 1. Minimum of 1-year experience in psychiatric health care facility with direct experience in family and group therapies, crisis intervention, and treatment skills; 2. Must have strong clinical assessment skills; Trauma Informed Care, Sexual Reactive, or Substance Abuse Experience. 3. Must be a LCSW, LMSW, LPC, LAC, LMFT, LAMFT 4. Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or related mental health field What you need to know: • Provides direct-care services to patients including individual, group and family sessions ensuring programming activity in the milieu. Serves as a primary therapist to assigned patients and their families. • Documenting therapeutic interactions and interventions accordingly in the medical record. Complete and maintain accurate records of services provided and ensure documentation in the patient medical record in a timely manner within 24 hours of delivery of services. • Completes expected documentation within timeframes this includes but not limited to: psychosocial, master treatment plan, group notes, individual notes, all notes. • Completes outcome assessments at admission, during treatment, and at discharge and uses this data to inform the treatment team and submits this data to leadership for cumulative understanding. • Interviews patients and family members to develop a complete psychosocial assessment. Obtains information about patient history, health and level of functioning, and collateral information. • Keeps key stakeholders, with a consent, abreast of treatment progress ensuring the relationships. This can include: families, probation officers, therapist/case worker, school, etc. • Serves as a member of the multidisciplinary team. Participates in the planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment plans and updates. • Works with patients and families to prepare solid aftercare plans, including referrals to community agencies and other professionals as needed. • Ensures program functions within requirements established by the Joint Commission and other state and federal agencies. • Remains knowledgeable of current trends related to behavioral healthcare by participating in professional organizations, reviewing current literature and communicating with representatives of other facilities. • Responsible for creating and supporting a positive, collaborative, professional, team-oriented, harassment-free work environment by understanding and complying with organization policies. • Responsible and support activities related to performance improvement with delivery of care processes and documentation. This includes teaching/training of YCW/MHT/LPN/RN to conduct groups by co facilitating. • Responsible for a collaborative on call schedule and rotation of schedule to meet patient needs seven days a week.

Benefits

Company

Our client is a Hospital and Health Care company that is one of the leading mental and behavioral health care providers in the country for children, adolescents, adults and senior adults. We deliver hope to our patients through the delivery of comprehensive and dedicated treatment programs.