Clinician (Lake Butler, FL)

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare; Lake Butler (FL); On-site; USD 50,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to transforming communities through mental health and substance use treatment. As a Clinician, you will conduct assessments, provide therapeutic services, and collaborate with a passionate team committed to making a difference. This role offers the chance to work in various settings, including schools and homes, ensuring that clients receive the best care possible. With a history of compassionate service, this opportunity allows you to grow professionally while positively impacting lives in your community. Embrace the chance to be part of a mission-driven team that values hope, empathy, and teamwork.

Benefits

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Qualifications

• Master's degree required; licensure as mental health professional or certified addictions professional.
• Outpatient clinical experience preferred, especially with the target population.

Responsibilities

• Perform clinical assessments and provide therapy services to clients and families.
• Document all services provided accurately in electronic medical records.

Skills

Assessment and evaluation skills

Therapeutic intervention skills

Crisis intervention skills

Cultural competence

Consultation skills

Education

Master's degree in social work, counseling, or psychology

Job description

Job Overview
$3,000 after 30 days of employment for select programs, inquire within!
Welcome! Your Meridian Career Starts Here!
Position Title: Clinician
Unlicensed: $50,872.50 (+$5,000 additive for community-based services)
Licensed: $66,187.80 (0-3 years), $68,394.06 (3-6 years), $71,703.45 (6+ years)
Location: Lake Butler, FL
Join our community of compassionate Meridians, today!
Why Meridian?
Meridian Healthcare treats patients who struggle with mental health and substance use disorders. Our team of Meridians has been treating these conditions with humanity and compassion for more than 50 years. We have patient service centers conveniently located in 13 counties throughout North Central Florida. Do you believe in hope, empathy, accountability, resilience, and teamwork [H.E.A.R.T.]? Join our community of compassionate Meridians, today!

GENERAL DUTIES:

1. Perform clinical assessments to determine diagnosis, level of care, treatment plan, and make recommendations to other agencies about these issues as needed.
2. Provide therapy services to assigned clients and/or family members in accordance with Center guidelines and procedures, and best practice standards for his/her profession. Any of the following may apply:
   1. Services are provided in schools, client homes, and in the clinic.
   2. Therapy is offered in a number of modalities including individual, family, and group.
   3. Therapy may include a range of levels of care from prevention and educational approaches to intensive on-site/in-home outpatient care.
   4. Therapy is offered to clients with a range of problems including, but not limited to:
      1. Mental health issues, based on DSM diagnosis
      2. Substance abuse/dependence, based on DSM diagnosis
      3. Issues related to sexual, physical, emotional abuse and its consequences.
   5. Crisis intervention/assessment:
      1. Telephone screening for need for services or eligibility
      2. Face-to-face screening to determine need for inpatient admission.
      3. Provides consultation services to staff from other agencies also working with the client.
      4. Provide sufficient services to meet revenue requirements: 1170 billed hours per year.
      5. Facilitates continuity of services within the agency and community for assigned clients.
      6. Documents all services provided in a timely and accurate manner in electronic medical record, consistent with Center guidelines and procedures, and best practice standards for his/her profession.
      7. Documents all services and job duties as required for billing, payroll, and reimbursement purposes, in accordance with Center guidelines and procedures.
      8. Specific competencies required are identified on a department/program specific basis and identified in each employee's Competency Checklist. The following are general and apply to all positions with this title.

Who are we looking for?
Education: Master's degree in social work, counseling, psychology or closely related field. Licensure as mental health professional or certified addictions professional required for Clinician.
Experience: Outpatient clinical experience preferred. Work experience must include work with population to be served.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

1. Have adequate assessment/evaluation skills:
   1. Can effectively diagnose disorders in children and adults
   2. Can articulate developmental issues and how these affect assessment and treatment.
   3. Is aware of cultural and gender related issues that may affect assessment of client needs and treatment planning
   4. Can identify signs and indicators of abuse/ trauma
   5. Can determine the need for Crisis Stabilization
2. Has adequate treatment skills:
   1. Appropriately applies behavioral, cognitive, and other interventions in manner sensitive to the age and special needs of the client
   2. Has facility with time effective treatment strategies
   3. Understands how abuse/ trauma needs to be addressed in treatment
   4. Can formulate treatment problems, goals and objectives based on assessment data
   5. Understands how to effectively integrate family/caregiver in treatment, as needed
   6. Understands the nature of and maintains appropriate professional boundaries (e.g., can examine the use of self in therapy, transference/counter-transference issues)
   7. Provides culturally competent care
3. Has adequate consultation skills:
   1. Understands the needs of host agency and community partners
   2. Is respectful of aims and personnel in host agency and community partners
   3. Adapts to the host environment and/ or community agency

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Our Hiring Process:
We pre-screen your application. If we find that your skills are a match for the position you applied for, we will then send your resume over to the hiring manager to schedule an interview.
If the interview is successful our talent acquisition recruiter from Human Resources Department will reach out to you with a verbal job offer and send over your background check paperwork as well as your follow up & next steps email.
After you have cleared the background screening process our talent acquisition team will then send you an overview with expectations for New Employee Orientation start date.

Our team is committed to helping you grow into the best version of yourself you were always meant to be. Thank you for considering joining the Meridian family!
How to apply:
If you are interested in making an impact while positively impacting the community apply below.

Simply apply through this website or visit us directly at https://meridian.e3applicants.com/careers/

Join us in our mission to bring education about mental illnesses and substance use disorders and the treatment of those affected to the world.
We transform communities from the inside out.
Meridian is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are fully committed to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, marital status, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service or because they are a protected veteran or other non-merit-based factors.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $50,872.50 - $71,703.45 per year

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Internship

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical Specialty:

• Addiction Medicine
• Psychiatry

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Work Location: In person