Mental Health Therapist (LCSW or LCPC)

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : DOE

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) :

Competencies or Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) :

Physical Demands & Working Conditions :

Hours / Travel

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.