What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mental Health Therapist (Master's Level) NON-EXE position at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters?
Conducts mental health evaluations to identify mental health symptoms and psychosocial stressors and / or supports to include chronic illness, trauma, disability, primary support group, educational experiences, social environment, legal system and other psychosocial or environmental factors.
- Develops an individualized treatment plan to address identified diagnoses and symptoms.
- Provides evidenced based therapies to children with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring acute or chronic illness, trauma, or disability.
- Completes comprehensive evaluations for review by the broader treatment team (such as treating MD referral source).
- Completes psychosocial evaluations, progress notes and individualized treatment plans in accordance with the established best practice and third party guidelines.
- Evaluates children and adolescents at risk for harm to self or others in order to determine the appropriate level of care and facilitates admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities and / or referrals to other community mental health services, as appropriate.
- Obtains outcome measures, through use of psychometric tools in order to track clinical trends and share data on patient progress with collaborating physicians.
- Leads coordination efforts with patients' medical care providers in order to ensure seamless integration of medical and mental health care.
- Runs evidence based groups as a co-facilitator.
- May participate in on-call phone skills coaching as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- LICENSES AND / OR CERTIFICATIONS
- MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- One to two years of related work experience preferred (including internship) and approval letter toward clinical supervision.
- Experience with implementing evidence-based treatments with children and families in both individual and group treatment modalities preferred.
- Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills necessary.
- Ability to work as a multidisciplinary team member.
- Position may require occasional travel to offsite locations.
- Increased Security Clearance Required for Job Role in Medical Tower II : FBI fingerprinting, criminal background check, and Child Protective Services registry search.
- WORKING CONDITIONS
- PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Must be in the process of working towards clinical hours of a current Virginia clinical license (Licensed Clinical Social Work or Licensed Professional Counselor).
Graduate of an accredited college or university with a Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Mental Health and / or related fields.
Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like.
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