Behavioral Health Clinician - Weekend Program

Advocate Aurora Health; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health in Charlotte, NC seeks a licensed mental health professional to collaborate with guardians and community agencies to meet patient care needs, assess problems, and write treatment plans.

The role provides psychotherapy using evidence-based modalities, maintains thorough documentation, and leads discharge planning with the next provider, while ensuring high-quality patient education and care coordination.

Qualifications

• License-eligible and actively seeking licensure to practice counseling in the state.
• Clinical experience preferred.
• CPI and BLS HCP certification from AHA required within 90 days of hire if working in an inpatient psychiatric setting.
• Good therapeutic communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patients' problems, needs, and functioning level.
• Writes treatment plans according to diagnosis, age, and clinical presentation.
• Provides psychotherapy modalities and applications based on current standards.
• Collaborates with guardians and community agencies to meet patient care needs.
• Documents patient care accurately in the medical record.
• Conducts discharge planning and coordinates follow-up with next provider.

Skills

Therapeutic relationship

Documentation

Discharge planning

Case presentations

Patient education

Treatment planning

Education

Master's degree in a relevant human services field (Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or Marriage and Family Therapy)

Job description

Essential Functions

• Utilizes resources to meet patient care needs by collaborating with appropriate guardians and community agencies.
• Assesses patients' problems, needs, and level of functioning.
• Writes appropriate treatment plans according to patient diagnosis, age, and clinical presentation.
• Provides various treatment modalities and theoretical applications based on current clinical standards.
• Assists individual, groups, and families through the therapeutic relationship; evaluates and treats mental disorders and other conditions through the use of a combination of psychotherapeutic techniques and human development principles.
• Establishes and conducts appropriate interventions/treatment. Writes appropriate discharge plans based on individual needs of client and follows through with termination process.
• Provides patient care according to established policies/procedures and professional standards of care.
• Designs, plans, and implements effective patient education.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates patient care according to identified needs and manages clients in crisis.
• Provides accurate and consistent documentation of patient care/response in the medical record.
• Presents cases in clinical team members meetings in a clear, concise, and clinically relevant manner.
• Completes all assessments within facility-established timeframes. Coordinates discharge planning and of care for next provider.

Physical Requirements

Works in patient care areas including hospital units, emergency room, individual offices and conference areas with exposure to potentially combative and hostile patients. Work requires frequent moving from one area to another and coordinating and communicating with other team members in various disciplines and agencies.

Education, Experience and Certifications

Master's degree in a relevant human services field such as Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or Marriage and Family Therapy from an accredited school of graduate education required. Dependent on program must be license-eligible and actively seeking appropriate licensure to practice counseling in the state of which one performs work. Clinical experience preferred. CPI and BLS HCP certification from AHA required within 90 days of hire if working in an inpatient psychiatric setting, Psychiatric Emergency Department or the Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program. Must have good therapeutic communication skills.