What are the responsibilities and job description for the Therapist position at Lake County?
- Being able to provide services to clients who mention not previously having treatment access.
- Building trust within their session and making breakthroughs with patients & in turn the community.
- Working alongside tenured colleagues.
- Opportunities for career growth and development.
Provides evaluation, psycho-social education mentoring, and treatment service to clients, assists clients in developing and accomplishing treatment goals in individual and group settings. Provides consultation and education to community groups, and emergency services as needed. Competently works with clients with coexisting disorders and works with youth and adult clients. Assist medical team with assessing and managing client mental health needs by completing brief assessments in client medical appointments as requested by medical providers.
- Provides an atmosphere of customer service in assuring that clients are treated in a friendly and respectful manner.
- Is eager to be involved in quality improvement activities on an ongoing basis.
- Takes a personal stake in the success of the program.
- Can serve as a backup for problem-solving and decision-making in the absence of program managers.
- Provides crisis intervention services to stabilize and assess the need for, and, if possible deflect a client from psychiatric hospitalization.
- Secures and coordinates mental health services for the client between various providers, and the client or the client’s caretaker.
- Facilitates clinical consultation, as assigned.
- Provides input into the scope, types, and evaluation of clinical and administrative programming that is offered utilizing published best practices and empirically proven clinical methodologies in the delivery of client care.
- Ensures effective communication among all staff regarding administrative and clinical issues.
- Maintains accountability standards required by LCHD/CHC and funding sources relative to the quality and quantity of services provided by staff members.
- Recommends to the Program Coordinator the transfer of clients from programs in which they are unable or unwilling to function adequately.
- Involved in quality improvement activities on an ongoing basis (such as implementing processes as a result of performance measurement reviews, participation in councils and teams, and making suggestions to improve a process).
- Takes a personal stake in the success of the program.
- Performs initial evaluations and assessments of potential clients regarding their appropriateness for participation in the program.
- Provides direct services to clients including individual and group treatment.
- Focuses on client empowerment in providing treatment, seeking to assist clients to build strengths to meet their treatment needs.
- Facilitates with clients and collaborates with the treatment team to develop, review, and update treatment goals and referrals both internally and externally.
- Provides education and direction to clients, family members, and/or significant others.
- Provides atmosphere of customer service in assuring that clients are treated in a friendly and respectful manner. Displays positive attitudes and behaviors in the accomplishment of job duties.
- Acquires and utilizes knowledge of LCHD/CHC database and word processing software and other equipment commensurate with position.
- Meet minimum productivity expectations.
- Organizes and participates in treatment-related clinical conferences and staffings on assigned clients.
- Takes responsibility for training in and documenting clinical chart requirements to meet program and state standards.
- Participates in collection of client fees including completing forms for third-part coverage and discussing balances due with clients, as appropriate.
- Participates in staff meetings, in-service training, and seminars to facilitate professional growth and maintain licensure if required.
- Serves as an LPHA and/or QMHP, which includes reviewing and signing clinical assessments, individual treatment plants, and other appropriate clinical documentation
- Master’s degree in a related field, and
- Successful completion of 1,000 practicum hours, or
- One (1) year of documented clinical experience under the supervision of a QMHP
As a public health department, we believe in the science, data, and power of vaccines, like the influenza vaccine, to protect against and prevent illness. Therefore, we require all Health Department staff to receive the annual influenza vaccine unless they have an approved medical or religious exemption.
Any offer of employment is conditioned on the successful completion of a background screening, drug and alcohol testing and may include a pre-employment medical exam.
The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
At this time, you must reside in either Illinois or Wisconsin to work for the Lake County Health Department.
Salary : $25,000
