Mental Health Professional - MSW Required

Parkridge Health System; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 56,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Wellbeing support and counseling

401(k) Plan with match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Parkridge Health System is seeking a Mental Health Professional to deliver supervised mental health services at Parkridge Valley campuses in Tennessee. The role includes conducting assessments, psychoeducation, leading process groups, and developing individualized treatment plans with evidence-based therapies.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate discharge planning, ensure patient safety, and complete timely documentation.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a mental health field.
• Provisional licensure may be required (LPC-A/LMSW/ETC).
• Basic Cardiac Life Support within 30 days of start date.
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention within 30 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Conducts individual, group, and family psychoeducational and process groups.
• Develops treatment plans and participates in planning meetings.
• Assesses environment and patient safety; reports changes as needed.
• Identifies risk factors and interventions for patients with safety concerns (suicide, harm, falls).
• Completes assessments, notes and documentation in a timely, compliant manner.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team on discharge planning and readiness.
• Performs post-discharge follow-up as indicated.

Skills

Psychoeducation

Group therapy

Assessment

Documentation

Safety assessment

Education

Master's Degree - REQUIRED

Provisional Licensure may be REQUIRED

Job description

Job Summary And Qualifications

The Mental Health Professional is to deliver exceptional, patient-focused care by providing supervised mental health services to patients and their loved ones. Their responsibilities include conducting assessments, offering psycho-education, leading process groups, developing treatment plans, and facilitating therapeutic counseling sessions using evidence-based interventions in one-on-one and group therapy.

What you will do in this Role:

• Conducts one-on-one, group, and family psychoeducational and process groups.
• Develops treatment plans and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.
• Assess 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).
• Completes assessments, group notes, and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patients’ discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.
• Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.

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
• Provisional Licensure may be REQUIRED – LPC-A/LMSW/ETC

Benefits

Parkridge Valley Child & Adolescent Campus, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include some or all of the following:

• 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

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and position

Parkridge Valley offers behavioral health. We offer addictive disorder treatment services. These are for children, adolescents and adults. We have four distinctive campuses. These include Parkridge Valley Adult and Senior. These include Parkridge Valley Child and Adolescent campus. These also include Parkridge Valley Cleveland and Parkridge Valley West. Parkridge Valley West is a behavioral health hospital. We offer adult inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services. These are offered to residents of Marion and its surrounding counties.

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We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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