Child and Family Mental Health Provider

Child and Family Mental Health Provider

Overview

Children's Mercy is seeking an experienced Acute Mental Health Provider to deliver crisis-focused care to children and adolescents ages 2-17. This role includes mental health assessments, safety and suicide risk evaluations, and brief therapeutic interventions. Providers support crisis stabilization, safety planning, and appropriate treatment referrals. Care is delivered in the Emergency Mental Health Crisis Center and CMH Emergency Departments. The provider works closely with a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, trauma-informed, patient-centered care, with flexibility to support other Child and Family Mental Health areas as needed.

Some of the benefits CMH offers our licensed Mental Health professionals:

• Numerous CEU opportunities per year, either department specific, or hospital-wide
• Annual stipend for qualified bilingual employees
• License renewal reimbursement
• Engagement in shared decision making through a variety of hospital wide work groups and committees

At Children's Mercy, we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcomed within our walls. A successful candidate for this position will join us as we strive to create a workplace that reflects the community we serve, as well as our core values of kindness, curiosity, inclusion, team and integrity.

Additionally, it's important to us that we remain transparent with all potential job candidates. Because we value the safety of the patients and families we serve, as well as the Children's Mercy staff, we want to let you know that the seasonal influenza vaccine is a condition of employment for all employees in our organization. New employees must be willing to be vaccinated if found non-immune to measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chicken pox (varicella) and/or without evidence of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination since 2005.

If you are selected for this position, you will be asked to supply your immunization records as proof of vaccination. If you have any concerns about receiving these vaccines, medical and/or religious exemptions can be further discussed with Human Resources.

Responsibilities

• Child and Family Therapy Service Provision and Documentation: provide evidence-based mental health treatments to patients and families within the assigned clinical area.
• Case Management and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  maintain ongoing communication with internal and external stakeholders to ensure strong partnerships, including referral sources, service providers, community mental health providers and care team members; assist families with accessing community services and transitioning to other treatment providers when needed.
• Professional Development: demonstrate active involvement and leadership within the team, department, and hospital by attending meetings and educational opportunities, serving as a consultant, participating on committees, and responding to requests for educational programs.

Qualifications

Applicants must have MO licensing upon hire. KS licensing is required within 90 days of hire.

• Master's Degree and 1-2 years experience
• LMSW MO Licensed Master’s Social Worker; MO license (LMSW/LCSW) or (LPC) upon hire;
  Kansas license within 90 days
• LCSW MO Licensed Clinical Social Worker; MO license (LMSW/LCSW) or (LCPC) upon hire;
  Kansas license within 90 days
• LSCSW MO Licensed Clinical Social Worker Specialist; MO license (LMSW/LSCSW) or (LCPC) upon hire;
  Kansas license within 90 days
• LCPC MO Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor; MO license (LMSW/LSCSW) or (LCPC) upon hire;
  Kansas license within 90 days
• LPC MO Licensed Professional Counselor; MO license (LMSW/LCSW) or (LPC) upon hire;
  Kansas license within 90 days

Benefits at Children's Mercy

The benefits plans at Children's Mercy are designed to meet the changing needs of our employees and their families.

Starting Pay

The pay range for this job begins at $31.15/hr, but your offer will be determined based on your education and experience.

Remote Work/Work from Home

This position is not eligible to work remotely and requires onsite work at one of our Children's Mercy locations.

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