Licensed Outpatient Therapist

HCA Healthcare; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Medical City McKinney, part of HCA Healthcare, seeks a Licensed Outpatient Therapist to deliver high-quality psychiatric treatment in a patient-centered, compassionate setting. You will conduct evaluations, provide counseling across individual, family, and group sessions, and support discharge planning while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure positive patient outcomes.

You will work with a diverse patient population, uphold ethical standards, and participate in ongoing

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field is required.
• Licensed by state as LCSW, LPC/LMHC, or LMFT is required.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychiatric treatment and therapy across individual, family, and group modalities.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and continuum of care providers.
• Assist with treatment planning, discharge planning, and education for patients and families.
• Participate in training and supervision of staff/interns when assigned.
• Support performance improvement initiatives and utilization review.

Skills

Patient counseling

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Master's Degree in Social Work / Counseling

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. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Licensed Outpatient Therapist

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Mental Health Professional III role will deliver exceptional psychiatric treatment to patients and their loved ones. The position prioritizes the satisfaction of their patients by offering patient-centered and high-quality care. The responsibilities include evaluations, psycho-education, group activities, planning for treatment, mapping out discharge, and providing therapeutic counseling help. They work to produce positive outcomes for their patients by using verified techniques in one-on‑one, family, and group counseling sessions.

What will you do in this role:

• Maintains effective communication with patients, families, multidisciplinary teams, and continuum of care providers.
• Maintains professionalism and uses good communication skills to interact with peers, staff, patients, and families, and resolve conflicts.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and ability to maintain clear professional boundaries with peers, patients, and families.
• Provides education and guidance about state commitment processes, abuse reporting requirements, the duty to warn, and guardianship processes.
• Demonstrates knowledge and role in hospital codes.
• Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, payer representatives, and other parties as appropriate about behavioral services.
• Reviews, coaches, and helps with the training of new staff/interns as assigned within approved practice and program guidelines. Participates in developing department goals and clinical programming.
• Performs utilization review as assigned.
• Helps with Process and Quality Improvement initiatives.

What qualifications you will need:

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

Benefits

Medical City McKinney, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms 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 supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor 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

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Medical City McKinney opened its doors more than 90 years ago. We are a 285+ bed acute care hospital. We serve the residents of McKinney and northern Collin County. Our main campus is a Level III Trauma Center. We provide emergency services at our main campus and at Medical City ER Stonebridge. We have cardiovascular and neurological services. We offer general surgery, orthopedics and women's services. Additionally, a Level II neonatal intensive care unit and behavioral health services. Medical City McKinney is a Primary Stroke Center. We are also a stroke rehabilitation center. We are certified by The Joint Commission for total hip and total knee replacement. 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.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.