Senior Behavioral Health Therapist, Day Shift, Outpatient Wellness Clinic

AHC SGMC Behavioral Health

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AHC Outpatient Wellness Clinic seeks to hire an experienced Senior Behavioral Health Therapist who will embrace our mission to extend God's care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As a Senior Behavioral Health Therapist, you will:
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality therapeutic care that is appropriate to the age, diagnoses, developmental state, and mental status of the clients that are assigned to their specific unit/department
• Initiates and implements complete, comprehensive psychosocial assessments
• Provides individual, group, and family therapies to clients and their families
• Participates in and interdisciplinary treatment team to propose and develop strategies and interventions that would promote excellent therapeutic outcomes
• Assists clients in their development of self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-actualization through a multitude of traditional and adjunctive therapeutic services
• Documents services provided and disseminates information/reports to community referral sources and agencies, i.e., DJS, DSS, HHS, APS, CPS, LCC, etc.
• Co-Ordinates with the interdisciplinary team, referral sources, and community resources aftercare and supportive services to ensure a successful discharge planning process
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to diffuse psychotic and/or behavioral crises to ensure client, unit, and staff safety an stability B
• Assesses and intervenes in cases of suspected/disclosed child/adult neglect/abuse issues
• Promotes positive patient-family-community relations
• Supervise interns psychotherapeutic treatment of patients and their families including individual therapy, parent collateral work, family therapy, couples therapy, and group therapy.  Monitors progress of patients in treatment and formally reviews treatment plan and goals regularly.  Supervises interns consultation with other professionals working with the client to assure coordinated and comprehensive service delivery.
• Supervises interns documentation, including maintenance of charts in a complete, timely and legible form, including parent information forms, consent forms, data collection forms, progress notes, and treatment plans and goals as required by state DHMH

Qualifications Include:
• Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited program required.
• Requires full licensure, e.g., LCSW-C, LCPC, LCMFT or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years of clinical social work experience, preferably in medical and/or behavioral health settings, to include experience collaborating with interdisciplinary teams in healthcare settings.
• Current licensure as an LCSW-C, required.
• Experience in providing therapeutic interventions for patients with mental health needs on medical units.
• Ability to educate and guide medical staff on behavioral health issues, interventions, and best practices for patient care.

Work Schedule:

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Hours per Week: 40 hrs/week
• Typical Daily Schedule: 8:00am-5:00pm Monday - Thursday, 8:00am-3:00pm Friday 
• Shift Type: Day
• Holiday Requirements: Follow company holiday calendar 

Pay Range:

$60,486.56 - $100,360.00

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Exempt)

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period 

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, an