Behavioral Health Therapist

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

 

About Duke Regional Hospital

 

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, which ranks as the number four hospital in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area, accordingto U.S. News and World Report for 2023-2024. Duke Regional Hospital is the second largest of Duke Health's three hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services.

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together. We are Better Together; our culture commitments are:

• We listen, support, trust in, and encourage each other as equally valuable members of the team.
• We are transparent and consistent about expectations, decisions, the decision-making process, and accountability. We trust and value the perspectives of and decision-making by those closest to the work.
• We collaboratively test creative ideas/methods and adjust nimbly based on new information and feedback from across the system.

 

Duke University Health System- Behavioral Health Therapist

• Behavioral Health Therapist may work in inpatient, hospital outpatient, ambulatory settings. May be embedded in primary care or other specialty. Possible cross coverage for other areas.
• Active, good standing NC License required
• Hours may vary depending on clinical setting

 

Occ Summary

Provide psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and psychotherapy treatment. It is an expectation to maintain a patient panel as outlined by departmental or team leadership with at least 80% of time dedicated to direct patient care. Scope of role, working schedule, and location may adjust with business need.

 

Work Performed

Seeking clinician to address Chronic Pain issues and substance use, ideally using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,  Mindfulness based CBT and Motivational Interviewing preferred.

 

Experience providing trauma informed therapy . 

 

Ability to work with diverse populations and multicultural issues.

 

•   Provide psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.

•   Formulate, develop, and implement a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate treatments and interventions.

•   Interventions may include crisis intervention, individual, marital, family and/or group therapies.

•   Screen, identify, diagnose using DSM nomenclature, treat and manage mental health and/or substance use problems in patients.

•    May participate in on-call or after-hours coverage.

•    Provide consultative services to health care team members within scope of care definitions as needed.

•    Maintain a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact patient care.

•    Provide education to patients and loved ones around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.

•   Participate in multi-disciplinary healthcare teams and provide leadership in representing clinical perspective.

•   May provide teaching and training for staff and faculty.

•   Contribute to the academic mission of the health system by participating in academic activities.

•    Maintain working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.

•    Knowledge of health system resources to access and provi