Behavioral Health Clinician Per Diem, Florham Park, NJ

Behavioral Health Clinician (LSW) Per Diem - Florham Park, NJ

Posted 5 days ago

Base pay range: $33.33/hr - $58.67/hr

• Conducts specialized counseling services for individuals, 13 years and older, who have experienced sexual violence.
• Provides assessment of patient needs, including the need for treatment of emotional, behavioral, and substance abuse issues; and provides assessment, planning and interventions for issues related to sexual violence.
• Completes and analyzes evidenced based screening tools and assessments.
• Provides individual, group and family counseling for sexual violence patients and their loved ones.
• Triage for patients requiring additional psychiatric, or substance abuse services and provides appropriate referrals.
• Completes required documentation and charting of patient encounters in a timely manner.
• Advocates for positive social change; and provides advocacy services for individual patients and their families.
• Works with other community stakeholders and partners to advocate for services for sexual violence survivors and their families.
• Provides police, medical and court accompaniment for sexual violence patients, as needed.
• Works with the MCSAC Coordinator in following the day-to-day operations of the MCSAC program, adhering to contractual obligations, and established programmatic and clinical standards.
• Assists maintaining systems to facilitate efficient and effective sexual violence support operations, and maintenance of systems for accurate reporting and tracking of patient information.
• Assists the MCSAC Coordinator with quality assurance activities of the MCSAC program using current sexual violence data and best practice, chart reviews and assessment of services through patient satisfaction endeavors.
• Provides back up hotline coverage during evenings and weekends, as needed.
• Submits monthly and quarterly program statistical reports to the coordinator for MCSAC.
• Assists the MCSAC team, when needed, in providing in-service education and outreach to community agencies in the county to provide information about identification of sexual violence victims and making referrals to MCSAC.
• Complete all mandatory AHS trainings and competencies as assigned.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

• MA degree in social work, counseling or psychology.
• LSW license required; LCSW/LPC highly preferred.
• Previous counseling experience working with victims of sexual violence.
• Bi‑lingual a plus.

Atlantic Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.