Mental Health Professional - Licensed

Hourly Wage Estimate: $24.87 - $34.82 / hour

The estimate displayed represents the typical wage range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

• Demonstrates advanced clinical skills and ability to assess patients to determine appropriate level of care.
• Identifies cultural considerations, gender identity and preferred language for patients and family
• Demonstrates advance practice in assessments, and all other documentation timely and in compliance with requirements (as appropriate to scope)
• Assesses environment and patient’s safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition
• Identifies risk factors, screening criteria and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement)
• Recognizes and acts upon unexpected assessment findings
• Leads in ensuring a safe structured milieu with evidence based treatment modalities/resources
• Maintains active and timely communication with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and continuum of care providers
• Provides education and guidance regarding state commitment processes, abuse reporting requirements, duty to warn and guardianship processes.
• Assesses, collaborates, coordinates and provides guidance on complex discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge with the multidisciplinary team.
• Develops and maintains a community resource guide including access to public assistance/alternatives.
• Facilitates and participates in Community Education, Activities and Support Groups (as appropriate to scope)
• Conducts post-discharge follow-up if indicated
• Assists with Process and Quality Improvement initiatives
• Delivers patient care based on accepted standards of care
• Demonstrates appropriate application of age/developmental stage specific standards, policies and procedures, and guidelines in assessing and treating patients to ensure patient safety.
• Maintains professionalism and uses good communication skills in interacting with peers, staff, patients, families and in resolving conflicts.
• Demonstrates understanding of and ability to maintain clear professional boundaries with peers, patients and families.
• Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, payer representatives, and other parties as appropriate regarding behavioral services
• Performs utilization review as assigned
• Participates in developing department goals/objectives and clinical programming
• Reviews, coaches and assists with training of new staff/interns as assigned within approved practice and program guidelines.
• Demonstrates knowledge and role in hospital codes
• Follows all hospital and department policies and procedures

• Basic Cardiac Life Support
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention
• Masters Degree
• (LCSW) Clinical Social Worker, or (LPC/LMHC) Licensed Professional/Mental Health Counselor

Chippenham Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral…