What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assessment Counselor position at Acadia Behavioral Health (Pioneer Behavioral Health)?
Employment Type: Full-Time
Hours Per Week: 40
This individual is responsible for providing therapeutic services to patients and functions as a direct liaison to the Director of Counseling regarding the status of the milieu.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
- High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree in social or health services field from an accredited college or university preferred. Two or more years’ experience in counseling field is required;
- OR Bachelor's degree in other field required and Four or more years’ experience in the counseling field;
- OR Master's degree in social or health services field required and one or more years’ professional work experience.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitors all admissions into Rehab, RTC and PHP Level of Care and assigns due dates for each psychosocial assessment.
- Maintains a list of all completed psychosocial assessments as well as those that need to be completed.
- Communicates effectively with primary counselors when psychosocial assessments need to be completed and he/she in unable to meet with the patient for completion of the assessment.
- Completes and submits psychosocial assessment and integrated summary within 5 days of admission to REHAB or PHP level of care.
- Integrated summary is thorough and includes all pertinent information found within the assessment necessary for treatment plan (i.e. demographics, biomedical conditions, mental health concerns, trauma history, history of SI/HI, employment status, living arrangements, etc).
- Communicates effectively with the patient’s treatment team, as needed, for crisis stabilization and/or revision of patient’s treatment plan.
- Evaluates the patient’s needs and determines if a psychiatric referral is needed.
- Provides crisis stabilization to patients, as needed.
- Facilitates groups, as needed, for patient programming
- Sunday -Thursday, 8am-4:30pm
BENEFITS:
- BC/BS Health Insurance (3 plans to choose from, eligible after 30 days of employment)
- Delta Dental (2 plans to choose from)
- VSP Vision Insurance
- Paid life and AD&D insurance
- 401k with a matching contribution
- Paid Vacation/Sick/Extended Sick/Personal/Holiday time
- Short term and Long term disability
- Free onsite employee fitness center
- Free meals
- Employee Discount program
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License/certification renewal and CEU reimbursement
- Employee Fun events
