Behavioral Health Counselor

St Anthony North Hospital; Westminster (CO); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health seeks a Behavioral Health Counselor to deliver high-quality patient care within the Behavioral Health Program. You will conduct intake assessments, determine diagnoses, and develop comprehensive, evidence-based treatment plans, guiding patients through their healing journey with adherence to professional and ethical standards.

Your role includes providing individual, family, couples, or group therapy, while ensuring safety, risk assessments, and compliance with state mental

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in Counseling, Social Work or related field.
• One year of direct behavioral clinical experience providing individual, group or family therapy in an inpatient or outpatient setting.
• Competence with DSM diagnostic criteria and treatment planning.
• Demonstrates clinical and ethical professionalism, conflict resolution and critical thinking skills.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) knowledge and experience, preferred for EAP program positions.

Responsibilities

• Responds to potentially dangerous situations and ensures safety of patients in the least restrictive manner.
• Appropriately assesses suicide risk.
• Demonstrates proper precautions when dealing with suicidal, homicidal, and/or dangerous clients.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the delivery of assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of quality care to meet patient needs.
• Consistently complies with all requirements of federal and state laws, accreditation standards, and ethics guiding the behavioral health profession and policies and standards of care at CommonSpirit Health.
• Facilitates individual, group, and family therapy as well as psycho-educational groups to promote patient emotional, spiritual, and psychological health.

Skills

DSM criteria & treatment planning

Crisis intervention

Clinical professionalism

Ethical conduct

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Counseling, Social Work or related field

Tools

EAP program knowledge

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As aBehavioral Health Counselor, you will contribute towards the delivery of quality healthcare with a concern for the well-being of those served. You will provide high-quality patient care by performing intake assessment, determining diagnosis, developing and maintaining a treatment plan, concurrent reviews, and discharge planning for patients in the Behavioral Health Program.

Every day, therapy may include individual, family, couples, or group counseling as appropriate, using clinically sound and evidence-based practices as current with state Mental Health laws, regulatory agencies, and policies and standards of care. You will meticulously assess patient needs, develop personalized treatment strategies, and guide patients through their healing journey, ensuring adherence to the highest professional and ethical standards.

To be successful in your role, you will strategically deliver high-quality patient care within the Behavioral Health Program, meticulously performing intake assessments, determining diagnoses, and developing comprehensive, evidence-based treatment plans. You will demonstrate exceptional clinical expertise in providing individual, family, couples, or group counseling, all while ensuring strict compliance with state Mental Health laws, regulatory agencies, and established standards of care to promote the well-being of those served.

• Responds to potentially dangerous situations and ensures safety of patients in the least restrictive manner.
• Appropriately assesses suicide risk.
• Demonstrates proper precautions when dealing with suicidal, homicidal, and/or dangerous clients.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the delivery of assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of quality care to meet patient needs.
• Consistently complies with all requirements of federal and state laws, accreditation standards, and ethics guiding the behavioral health profession and policies and standards of care at CommonSpirit Health.
• Facilitates individual, group, and family therapy as well as psycho-educational groups to promote patient emotional, spiritual, and psychological health.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Counseling, Social Work or related field
• One (1) year of direct behavioral clinical experience providing individual, group or family therapy in an inpatient or outpatient setting
• Competence with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnostic criteria and treatment planning
• Demonstrates clinical and ethical professionalism, conflict resolution and critical thinking skills
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) knowledge and experience, preferred for EAP program positions
• Physical Requirements: Medium Work - exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10lbs. constantly

Preferred

• Basic Life Support - (For St. Anthony North Hospital and St. Anthony Hospital only: Current Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association)

Where You'll Work

For more than 50 years, St. Anthony North Hospital has delivered optimal health care to the communities of Westminster, Erie, Brighton, Broomfield, Northglenn and Thornton. Highlights of our campus include 60,000 square feet of integrated primary and specialty care physician clinics, ambulatory surgery center, birthing center with private birthing suites, Level III Trauma Center with 24/7 emergency services, over 150 inpatient beds and an outpatient diagnostics center with lab and imaging services. In 2023, we received our prestigious Magnet designation! We are so proud of our nursing staff for this achievement, which is awarded to less than 6 percent of hospitals in the United States. Built on the pillars of convenience, wellness and person-centered care, we offer inpatient and outpatient care at one site, with an emphasis on preventive health, wellness and health education.