What are the responsibilities and job description for the Outpatient Clinician position at Sweetser?
Therapist will utilize Trauma Informed Therapy practices, and other Best-Practice modalities, in the clinic-setting, to create and provide Mental Health and co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Recovery treatment interventions to produce positive outcomes in client functioning as a result of treatment. Join Sweetser's existing team of clinicians providing services to our clients!
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Provide customer service within established deadlines, consistent with organizational values, standards, and policies.
Demonstrate leadership in Case-Coordination.
Complete timely, professionally written, documentation.
Manage insurance authorizations in a fiscally responsible manner.
Use quality Collaborative Documentation to maintain insurance required documentation.
Coordinate clinical appointments.
Use the Organization’s established tools and procedures, to formulate a Comprehensive Assessment. This includes, but is not limited to, the Level of Care and Risk, Assessment, involving family members, providers and natural supports.
Create clinical interventions in an Individualized Service Treatment Plan, reflective of industry standards of best-practice and Evidenced-Based Treatment, which accurately demonstrates that the client’s presenting symptoms. Clinician will demonstrate that the prescribed intervention, forms measurable functioning outcomes.
Demonstrate Trauma-Informed Treatment.
Provide Integrated Care by including the client’s Natural Supports and Providers.
Provide a clinical experience for student interns and conditionally licensed therapists, as appropriate.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
- Demonstrates professionalism and collaboration with others
- Receive and understand professional feedback from supervisors and colleagues and implement supervisory suggestions for performance improvement.
- Recognize signs of increasing clinical or situational risk and of escalating behavior and utilize de-escalation and safety implementation techniques effectively.
- Recognize variables underlying stressful situations, discern methods to diffuse or contain them and quickly implement the most effective intervention.
- Manage multi-task situations and conflicting demands, cope with stressful situations, prioritize projects and responsibilities, and meet critical deadlines.
- Maintains current knowledge in present practice area, i.e., attendance at required hours of organization educational programs and utilizes clinical supervision as a learning experience.
- Use listening skills, flexible collaboration and a consistent problem-solving focus in working to resolve differences with colleagues, peers and clients.
- Communicate ideas and opinions in a clear and constructive manner, both verbally and in writing.
- Intermediate computer skills required.
EDUCATION:
Master’s Degree in a related field (Psychology, Human Development, Social Work, etc.)
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:
LCSW/LADC preferred. LMSW-CC considered.
