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Introduction
Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) Mental Health Professional II PRN with HCA HealthONE Aurora you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the HCA HealthONE Aurora family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Mental Health Professional II PRN to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!
Job Summary and Qualifications
The Mental Health Professional II facilitates high quality, patient-centered care by providing supervised mental health services to patients and their families. The Mental Health Professional II performs assessments, psycho-education, process groups, treatment planning, discharge planning and therapeutic counseling support through evidenced based interventions in individual, family, and group therapy.
What you will do in this role:
- Conducts individual, group and family psychoeducational and process groups.
- Develops treatment plans and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.
- Assesses environment and patient’s safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.
- Identifies risk factors, screening criteria and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).
- Completes assessments, group notes and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patient’s discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.
- Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.
- Evaluates re-admissions for gaps in discharge planning processes. Formulates a plan and implements new strategies.
- Develops and maintains a community resource guide including access to public assistance/alternatives.
- Facilitates and participates in Community Education, Activities and Support Groups, as appropriate to scope.
- Contributes to ensuring a safe, structured milieu with evidence-based treatment modalities/resources.
- Identifies cultural considerations, gender identity and preferred language for patients and family.
- Demonstrates appropriate application of age/developmental stage specific standards, policies and procedures, and guidelines in assessing and treating patients to ensure patient safety.
- Maintains active and timely communication with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and continuum of care providers.
- Maintains professionalism and uses good communication skills in interacting with peers, staff, patients, families and in resolving conflicts.
- Understands state commitment processes, abuse reporting requirements, duty to warn and guardianship processes.
- Demonstrates knowledge and role in hospital codes.
- Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, payer representatives, and other parties as appropriate regarding behavioral services.
- Participates in developing department goals/objectives and clinical programming.
- Performs utilization review as assigned.
- Assists with Process and Quality Improvement initiatives.
What qualifications you will need:
- Master’s Degree in Social Work or related field required
- Experience in mental health or related field preferred
- Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- Currently registered as a Licensed Master in Social Work (LMSW) in state (s) of practice, according to law and regulation preferred
- Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (LPCA) preferred
- Basic Life Support (BLS) required in 30 days
- Crisis Prevention Intervention required in 30 days
HCA HealthONE, one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare systems in the Rocky Mountain region, offers more than 170 care sites in the Denver metro area. Offering services across the continuum of care to meet patients’ total healthcare needs, HCA HealthONE includes seven acute care hospitals, a dedicated flagship pediatric hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, CareNow® urgent care clinics, mental health campuses, imaging and surgery centers, physician practices, home and hospice care, and AirLife Denver, which provides regional critical care air and ground transportation. Among HCA HealthONE’s acute care hospitals in Aurora, offering more than 60 medical specialties, including a Level II Trauma Center with Primary Stroke Certification and Chest Pain Center accreditation and a full-service mental health campus. HCA HealthONE Aurora is the first hospital in the Denver metro area to receive a three-time Magnet designation for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Consistently among the Denver Business Journals’ list of top corporate philanthropists in the Denver-metro area, HCA HealthONE was named as one of the most community-minded organizations by The Civic 50 and contributed more than $1 million through cash and in-kind donations last year alone, along with more than $400M in federal, state and local taxes.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Mental Health Professional II PRN opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Salary : $34 - $54
