Therapy - Mental Health Therapist

Profession: Behavioral Healthcare Provider

Specialty: Staff Augmentation

Duration: Long-term, could last 3 months or more

Shift: Day

Hours per Shift: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Experience: Minimum years of experience required

License: Must hold an appropriate professional license

Certifications: BLS/CPR certification required

Must-Have: Must hold LISW or LPCC

Description:

The Behavioral Healthcare Provider develops, coordinates, implements, and provides identified interdisciplinary services.

These services are concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical science knowledge.

Knowledge and techniques relevant to health and illness are applied to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.

The Behavioral Healthcare Provider independently provides services within their credentialed scope of practice.

They also serve as lead workers or liaisons to other support agencies, public or private.

Key Responsibilities:

Acts as a lead worker over lower-level behavioral healthcare providers.

Independently develops and implements treatment plans for clients.

Coordinates admission, assessment, evaluation, and treatment plans for clients' care cycles.

Provides interventions for acute and more complex clients.

Handles cases with numerous factors and problems and provides crisis intervention.

Participates in the establishment, implementation, and direction of behavioral healthcare programs and treatment objectives.

Develops and designs treatment intervention techniques and procedures.

Evaluates and modifies treatment systems to respond to client progress and behavior change capabilities.

Evaluates the performance of lower-level behavioral healthcare providers in administering prescribed treatment plans.

Maintains necessary documentation to satisfy the requirements of applicable agencies.

Serves as an active member of treatment teams and attends training sessions and departmental meetings.

Establishes and maintains working relationships with other facilities and agencies.

Coordinates referrals and follows up on services.

Unusual

Working Conditions:

May require unusual work schedules or arrangements.

May be exposed to clients who might be potentially violent.

May encounter unusual noise, odors, or contagious diseases.

May require travel to community sites under contract with relevant departments.

Personal items, including cell phones, tobacco, and food, are not permitted in the facility.

Individuals must clear a metal detector before entering the premises.

Food and drinks must be in clear, see-through containers with a limit on the amount of water brought in.