Mental Health Therapist (LCSW or LCPC)

Job Summary: 

The Mental Health Therapist provides clinical treatment services to the Native populations of our community, with a specific emphasis on adult treatment. This is an outpatient treatment program designed to service patients with a mental health diagnosis who meet dimensions for outpatient services. This position requires highly independent clinical decision-making, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. Mental Health Therapists must possess a comprehensive knowledge of mental health and substance use symptom interference, therapeutic modalities, trauma-informed care, culturally and linguistically competent healthcare, ethical standards, confidentiality, self-care, and compassion fatigue. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities and Expectations: 

• Assesses changing needs of patient per regulator guidelines associated with outpatient programs and incorporates patient care needs into active treatment planning and reviews. 

• Adheres to legal and ethical standards of practices as well as NADC-BUIHWC policies and procedures. 

• Provides individual and group therapy to patients in the program and engages families in the assessment and treatment processes when indicated. 

• Demonstrates positive and therapeutic relationships with patients as well as demonstrates facial expressions congruent with language. 

• Uses psychotherapeutic techniques and concepts to effectively assist patients with treatment goals, skill building, emotional regulation, and recognizing symptom interference. 

• Completes clinical documentation on the same day of service delivery and provides clinical information to relevant patient treatment and insurance providers to ensure authorization for services. 

• Creates treatment plans that include an effective continuum of therapeutic, supportive, and other services for patients with a variety and complexity of needs serviced by the program. 

• Responds to mental health crisis and emergencies using crisis intervention and assessment modalities within BUIHWC and the greater community as indicated. 

• Establishes effective crisis care plans for patients and makes appropriate clinic referrals. 

• Participates in regular treatment team meetings to discuss clinical cases, review and update treatment plans, monitor therapeutic progress and initiate recommendations for referral and continuing care. 

• Reviews cases and/or group therapy periodically, as well as serious clinical patient conditional changes with supervisor and other clinic personnel as indicated. 

• Under direct supervision, conducts assessments of new patients using the identified format for documentation in the electronic health record system and clinical decisions regarding treatment, interventions and referrals, as instructed. 

• Provides culturally appropriate resources when indicated to patients and families. 

• Other duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications (Experience/Education): 

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or other counseling field from an accredited university and a minimum of two years of direct clinical experience in crisis assessment, therapies, and clinical case management is required. 

• Current Montana licensure--Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license required. 

• Experience working collaboratively with families, coworkers, and other professionals and all collaborative partners in the community. 

• Previous experience with electronic heath record systems. 

• Must have communication skills, both verbal and written, required. 

• Must have valid Montana State driver’s license and reliable transportation. 

• Must be able to pass a background check. 

• Must adhere to NADC-BUIHWC core values.

Competencies or Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA’s): 

• Knowledge of principles and standards related to healthcare and confidentiality. 
• Knowledge of professional counseling principles, procedures, and techniques. 
• Thorough knowledge of legal and ethical performance standards and their application. 
• Working knowledge of office practices and procedures, programs, and services.  
• Skilled in interpersonal relationships and conflict management. 
• Cross-cultural skills, experience with culturally diverse populations. 
• Demonstrated excellence in written and oral communication skills. 

Physical Demands & Working Conditions: 

• Work is primarily in an office environment. 
• Incumbent must be able to perform computer, data entry and word processing related tasks for a majority of the workday, as required. 
• Frequently sit, with continuous full use of hands, repetitive movement, keyboarding, and clear vision, as well as speak and hear normal conversation. 
• Requires high attention to detail with frequent deadlines, and internal and external social interaction. 
• Incumbent must move, stand, bend, or kneel on an intermittent basis. 
• Requires intermittent, moderate physical effort, moving or carrying 5 to 25 pounds. May occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds. 

• Incumbent is occasionally exposed to on-street driving and moving vehicles with an overnight stay away from home. 

Hours/Travel 

• Generally, have a set schedule each week. 
• Usually work 40 hours a week unless position is exempt in which typical hours worked may increase. 
• Work hours are generally Monday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM, but will include early morning and/or evening meetings and events. 

NADC-BUIHWC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. NADC-BUIHWC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.