Behavioral Health Therapist - Addiction Recovery Center

Overview

To provide assistance to the multidisciplinary team in the assessment, treatment planning, counseling, and discharge planning for patients and their families.

Certifications:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days
  - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor (CADC) within 2 years
  - Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA)

One of the following:

• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) within 2 years
  - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• Licensed Social Worker (LSW) within 2 years
  - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFP)

Education: Master’s Degree:
Social Work, Counseling;
Psychology,

Work Experience: Behavioral health

Other Requirements

Advanced reading, writing and oral skills. Ability to respond appropriately to customer/co‑worker. Interaction with a wide variety of people. Maintain confidential information. Ability to communicate only the facts to recipients or to decline to reveal information. Ability to project a professional, friendly, helpful demeanor. Basic computer knowledge: uses word processing, spreadsheet, e‑mail application, and web browser. Comfortable within a Windows OS and learning new applications.

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 regularly scheduled group therapy/week.
• Assures that families are involved in treatment process.
• Provides family counseling as stipulated on the treatment plan.
• 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 correct charting format.
• During times of low census (less than
  4), will assist with assessments, admissions, and facilitating other groups at the direction of the Program Manager.
• When assisting as a team member to control an aggressive or violent patient, CPI methods will be used.

Completes ongoing assessments of patients.

• Documentation is timely, legible and succinct and includes impression and recommendation.
• Family and significant others are utilized whenever possible in the completion of ongoing assessment of patient progress.
• Patient is ongoingly assessed during informal sessions as well as during formal individual and family sessions.
• Documentation of ongoing assessments reflects progress toward goals outlined in treatment plan.
• Facilitates various groups and assigned with attention to achievement of the goal or process associated with each group.
• Accurately documents activities according to the policies and procedures.
• Is knowledgeable of and capable of providing emergency assistance in regard to inappropriate acting out behavior by any patient. Always attempts to utilize verbal redirection, interaction of other staff, utilization of quiet room, etc. before instituting emergency measures such as safety codes, restraints, etc.
• Is knowledgeable and capable of working with patients who present a dual problem, Mental Illness/Substance Abuse co‑occurring disorders.
• Is able to perform all duties of a counselor as needed and assigned.

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 employer staffing.
• 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 treatment plan.
• Proactively meets with other members of the treatment team on a daily basis to coordinate care and discharge planning specifically; psychiatrist, Unit Counselors, other community providers, patients and family members.
• Begins discharge planning process as soon after admission as is clinically appropriate and…