Licensed Intake Clinician

HCA Healthcare; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, prescription drug, dental, (P

Vision and behavioral health benefits

Paid time off and family leave

401(k) plan with employer match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tuition assistance / education support

Fertility and family building benefits

Job summary

HCA Healthcare's Medical City Green Oaks Hospital in North Texas seeks a licensed clinical social worker to join our behavioral health team. You will assess patients to determine level of care and coordinate discharge planning with the multidisciplinary team.

The role requires cultural sensitivity, safety assessment, and education on commitment processes. You will mentor staff and connect patients and families with community resources while maintaining professional boundaries.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree required.
• Advanced licensure required (LCSW / LPC/ LMHC / LMFT).
• BLS and Nonviolent Crisis Intervention within 30 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients to determine level of care.
• Identify cultural considerations and language needs.
• Lead in safe milieu with evidence-based treatment.
• Coordinate discharge planning with the multidisciplinary team.
• Educate on commitment processes and guardianship.
• Maintain active communication with patients, families, and care team.
• Coach and train new staff as assigned.

Skills

Advanced clinical skills

Patient assessment

Discharge planning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Communication with families

Education

Master's degree - REQUIRED

Advanced Licensure - REQUIRED

Job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Job Summary and Qualifications

• · Demonstrates advanced clinical skills and ability to assess patients to determine appropriate level of care.
• · Identifies cultural considerations, gender identity and preferred language for patients and family
• · Demonstrates advance practice in assessments, and all other documentation timely and in compliance with requirements (as appropriate to scope)
• · Assesses environment and patient’s safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition
• · Identifies risk factors, screening criteria and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement)
• · Recognizes and acts upon unexpected assessment findings
• · Leads in ensuring a safe structured milieu with evidence based treatment modalities/resources
• · Maintains active and timely communication with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and continuum of care providers
• · Provides education and guidance regarding state commitment processes, abuse reporting requirements, duty to warn and guardianship processes.
• · Assesses, collaborates, coordinates and provides guidance on complex discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge with the multidisciplinary team.
• · Develops and maintains a community resource guide including access to public assistance/alternatives.
• · Facilitates and participates in Community Education, Activities and Support Groups (as appropriate to scope)
• · Demonstrates appropriate application of age/developmental stage specific standards, policies and procedures, and guidelines in assessing and treating patients to ensure patient safety.
• · Maintains professionalism and uses good communication skills in interacting with peers, staff, patients, families and in resolving conflicts.
• · Demonstrates understanding of and ability to maintain clear professional boundaries with peers, patients and families.
• · Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, payer representatives, and other parties as appropriate regarding behavioral services
• · Reviews, coaches and assists with training of new staff/interns as assigned within approved practice and program guidelines.

What qualifications you will need:

• · Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• · Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• · Masters Degree - REQUIRED
• · Advanced Licensure - REQUIRED – (LCSW) Clinical Social Worker, or (LPC/LMHC) Licensed Professional/Mental Health Counselor, or (LMFT) Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

The goal of Medical City Green Oaks Hospital has been to become the premier psychiatric treatment facility in North Texas since 1983. We provide mental health and chemical dependency (substance use) treatments. We offer psychiatric emergency services (PES), inpatient, and outpatient treatments. Medical City Green Oaks Hospital is committed to the mission of providing exceptional psychiatric services. Our sole purpose is to provide immediate access to psychiatric care for our North Texas community. We have been recognized as the most progressive and innovative psychiatric system. We deliver services and provide community outreach. Our focus is on the most efficient, cost-effective, quality patient care. This is the driving force behind all of our endeavors. Green Oaks strives to promote dignity. We hold compassion and respect for patients and their families. We are a part of the Medical City network of hospitals. Patients are ensured access to medical experts and advanced healthcare innovations across the network.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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