Behavioral Health Clinician- Community Behavioral Health

To provide assistance to the interdisciplinary team in the assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy/counseling, and discharge planning for patients on the inpatient behavioral health units.

• Master’s Degree in Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Social Work
• Master’s Degree in Counseling
• Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Training within 3 months - Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)

Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.

• Provides individual, group, and family counseling to assist patients/families in achieving treatment goals
• Provides individual counseling to patients as stipulated on the treatment plan
• Facilitates a minimum of one regularly scheduled group therapy/week
• Assures that families are involved in treatment a minimum of two times/week
• Provides family counseling as stipulated on the treatment plan (adult/geriatric unit)
• Interventions reflect a knowledge of age appropriate behaviors
• Group facilitation reflects expertise in group dynamics
• Cognitive behavior therapy and other brief therapies are utilized whenever appropriate
• Documentation is timely, succinct, legible, and uses the DAIR format.
• During times of low census (less than
  4), will assist with milieu management as well as admission assessments and intakes at the direction of the Nurse Manager
• When assisting as a team member to control an aggressive or violent patient, CPI methods will be used
• Completes initial and ongoing assessments of patients
• Initial assessment is completed by the close of the first business day following admission.
• Documentation is timely, legible and succinct and includes impression and recommendation.
• Family and significant others are utilized whenever possible in the completion of the initial assessment.
• All salient factors are included in the patient assessment.
• Patient is ongoingly assessed during informal sessions as well as during formal individual and family sessions.
• Documentation of ongoing assessments reflect progress towards goals outlined in treatment plan.
• Collaborates with other members of the treatment team as well as community providers in the development and implementation of an individualized treatment plan and provides referrals and discharge planning.
• Participates actively in regularly scheduled staffing meetings as well as community, return to work, discharge, and school staffings.
• Participation reflects knowledge of the patient’s strengths, illness, support systems, and history.
• Document identified problems, discipline specific interventions, discharge plan, goals met, etc on the care path.
• Proactively meets with other members of the treatment team on a daily basis to coordinate care and discharge planning specifically; psychiatrist, case managers, other community providers, patients and family members.
• Begins discharge planning process as soon after admission as is clinically appropriate and that plan is in ple prior to discharge.
• Keeps patient/family informed of plans as they progress (when clinically appropriate).
• Uses creativity and patient advocacy in the planning and implementation of the discharge plan.
• Facilitates transition between levels of care within Service Line continuum of care.
• Provides necessary information to providers at next level of care.
• Responsible for assisting staff as well as patients and their families with legal issues associated with treatment to ensure that patients/families’ rights are protected and that all treatment rendered is in accordance law.
• Demonstrates thorough…