Description

The Therapist provides therapeutic behavioral health services for individuals and their families/support system with forensic, mental health and co-occurring mental health and substance abuse challenges. The Therapist is responsible for the delivery of individual, group and family therapy, and collaborates with other members of the treatment (recovery) team to help develop and implement comprehensive wellness and recovery (treatment) plans.

Competency

Communication:  Demonstrates ability to communicate with dignity and respect in a way which foster independence and promote self-esteem.

Performance Expectations:

1. Displays objective, empathetic detachment and willingness to become conscious of, and manage

personal biases, maintaining a non-judgmental, non-punitive demeanor and approach.

1. Consistently uses patience and persistence in helping to establish and maintain the consumer’s motivation.
2. Uses age-appropriate vocabulary while displaying compassion, respect, flexibility, and hope to all individuals.

Competency

Assessment: Demonstrates the ability to assess the consumer for symptomatology and functioning levels to support diagnosis.

Performance Expectations:

• Gathers data in relation to the consumer’s age and provides relevant information to the Multidisciplinary Treatment Team.
• Identifies risk factors regarding health and lifestyle

• Identifies emotional barriers as it relates to the consumer’s mental health diagnosis

• Assesses consumer’s involvement in work, family, and community and adjustment to changes and limitation associated with aging and mental health diagnosis.

Collaborates with the multidisciplinary Treatment Team to review the psychosocial history and assessment.

1. Demonstrates knowledge of interactions between mental illness and substance abuse.
2. Demonstrates knowledge of and skills with substance abuse, dependence and other addictive behaviors over the course of treatment.

Competency

Planning: Demonstrates the ability to assist with developing an individualized, consumer-centered treatment plan that structures the course of treatment.

Performance Expectations:

1. Identifies/provides feedback to identify goals, measurable objectives, and interventions to assist consumers in attaining these goals.
2. Throughout the treatment planning process uses knowledge of normal growth and development for young adults and adults.

Competency

Implementation:  Demonstrates the ability to move consumers toward problem-resolution within an acceptable time frame.

Performance Expectations:

1. Provides individual and group therapy and family counseling as appropriate/needed.
2. Documents consumer progress in accordance to established treatment goals.
3. Provides one on one time to address certain issues or when requested by a consumer, family member or the multidisciplinary Treatment Team.

1. Refers consumers through the proper channels when their problems require a different level of assistance.
2. Records consumers attendance following direct contact or missed appointments.
3. Networks with community agencies (including Resource Coordinators/Intensive Case Managers, etc.) as authorized by the client to increase service delivery.
4. Supervises and guides Mentor I and Mentor II interventions with Young Adult consumers.
5. Participates in regularly scheduled clinical case review and administrative meetings.
6. Reports to the multidisciplinary Treatment Team on the progress of consumer’s treatment goals and other relevant issues, such as attendance, compliance with medications.

Competency

Evaluation:  Demonstrates the ability to continuously evaluate the consumers’ response to treatment approaches and assists to modify the treatment plan to achieve the goals.

Performance Expectations:

                1.             Participates in interagency communication as it applies to facilitating consumer’s treatment plan.

1. Assists in the periodic review of the consumer’s treatment plans.
2. Organizes time and caseload such that all treatment plan reviews are completed with the time frames set by funding and/or regulatory requirements.

1. Provides feedback to complete clinical discharges of consumers, which meet established payer and/or regulatory standards/requirements.

Competency

                Safety:  Demonstrates skills in maintaining consumer safety in the treatment setting.

                Performance Expectations:

1. Monitors male-female and other interactions and appropriately intervenes when boundaries are violated.
2. Monitors and maintains the environment for safety of the consumer, staff, and visitors.
3. Reports serious incidents and/or breaches in policy and procedure to the Program Director.

Education:

Required:             Master’s degree in Behavioral Sciences from an accredited college or university.

Preferred:            Professional license in Counseling or social work

          Experience:

Required:             A minimum of one (1) year of paid professional experience in a behavioral health setting.

Preferred:            At least three (3) years paid professional experience in a behavioral health setting.

3.          Required:      Maintain a valid Driver’s License ;Meet company standard for criminal history background check

New Vitae Wellness and Recovery (NVWR) is an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex/gender (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, medical condition, age, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information, citizenship status, unemployment status, political affiliation, or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state or local laws.  NVWR will consider qualified job candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with federal, state and local laws.  Furthermore, we comply with the laws and regulations set forth by the EEOC.