Primary Therapist

Job Summary :

The Primary Therapist is to provide individual and group therapy sessions for the organization's clients. The Primary Therapist will guide and direct clients during sessions and prepare group notes, support clinical necessity and progress toward treatment plan goals. Maintains open communication lines with facility staff, attending clinicians and physicians, patients and families.

Duties / Responsibilities :

• Completes psychosocial intake on clients within appropriate timeframe.
• Conducts Suicide Screening and Assessments.
• Completes the master treatment plan within appropriate timeframe.
• Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making change
• Collaborate with other staff members to perform clinical assessments or develop treatment plans.
• De-escalates AMA and other patient problems.
• Documents all activities in the patient medical record and files all notes in the charts on a daily basis for UR purposes.
• Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, or supporting clients or patients
• Attends daily staff meetings to enhance communication with clinical staff regarding program and patient issues.
• Participate in required staff training (minimum 20 hours).
• Complete all assigned paperwork in an accurate and timely manner.
• Communicate with other staff as necessary to promote quality patient care.
• Participate in maintaining clean, properly supplied and efficient work areas.
• Observe and report safety, maintenance problems.
• Interact appropriately with patients, showing them respect while maintaining boundaries.
• Maintain professional demeanor at all times.
• Exercise sound professional judgment and seek assistance as necessary to effectively manage patient behavior.
• Protect the privacy of all patient information in accordance with privacy policies, procedures and practices, as required by federal and state law, and in accordance with general principle of professionalism as a health care provider. Failure to comply with policies and procedures on patient privacy may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
• May access protected health information (PHI) and other patent information only to the extent that is necessary to complete your job duties. The incumbent may only share such information with those who have a need to know specific patient information you have in your possession to complete their job responsibilities related to treatment, payment or other operations.
• Expected to report, without the threat of retaliation, any concerns regarding policies and procedures on patient privacy and any observed practices in violation of the policy to their supervisor.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills / Abilities :

Alcohol and addictive drugs and their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual impact on the individual.

Confidentiality

Establish rapport, systematically gather data, determine the readiness of the individual for treatment and change, and apply accepted criteria for diagnosis of substance use disorders (If applicable)

Note : This does not mean that every staff member must have all of these competencies; rather the total complement of staff together possess all of these competencies.

Education and Experience :

Physical Requirements :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Tuesday-Saturday

9 : 00am-5 : 00pm