Mental Health Therapist

Provides Social Services to all patients and families. As a member of the treatment team(s) and the unit, is responsible for providing a broad range of treatment and rehabilitation activities for the population served. Provides healthcare services consistent with state law and the requirements of the professional licensing or certification authority and/or hospital privileges, where applicable.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree in related field.
• West Virginia state criminal background check, and federal, if applicable, required for DHHR regulated area.
• De-escalation and restraint training within 90 days of start date.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Licensure in related field: LCSW, LICSW, LPC, Supervised-Psychologist, or Licensed Psychologist.

EXPERIENCE:

• Prior experience in behavioral health.

CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates as an integral professional member of an interdisciplinary treatment team led by a physician.
• Participates as clinical personnel in a treatment area and facilitates therapeutic milieu on the treatment unit, when applicable.
• Provides direct one-on-one age specific psychotherapy services to patients when requested via specific program requirements.
• Assists medical staff in determining appropriateness of services and receives referral for intervention.
• Determines the developmental age (level of development) of the patient and assists the treatment team in the development and implementation of a treatment plan specific with developmental needs and/or required intervention.
• Assesses psychosocial needs, including assessing for high-risk indicators and documents obtainment of psychosocial history/assessment.
• Correlates all assembled data on the psychosocial history in a manner that is clinically pertinent to the individual patient.
• Performs continued-care planning as developed with the treatment team from first day of services.
• Provides group therapy as deemed appropriate.
• Acts as liaison for patients and their families to various community agencies, consultants, and services.
• Records and charts all patient contacts as required.
• Provides direct family therapy to patients and their families as directed by treatment planning and program requirements.
• Maintains appropriate certification, licensure and competency through supervision and/or training and successful completion of annual performance evaluations.
• Attends continuing education seminars and in-services as necessary to maintain professional licensure, competency, and to meet hospital required educational standards.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to sit for long periods of time.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT:

• Able to work in variety of settings and possibly noisy environments.
• Work with difficult or challenging clients of various ages and demographics.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Possesses the interpersonal skills to positively and effectively communicate, negotiate, and resolve conflict.
• Uses competent clinical practice and critical thinking skills to efficiently deliver patient care with all health care providers while maximizing efficient use of resources.
• Ability to be flexible in response to changes in work volume, staff and scheduling changes.
• Ability to work successfully under highly stressful conditions and capable of adapting to varying workloads and work assignments on a constant basis.