Mental Health Professional - Wexford - Full Time

3M HEALTHCARE; Wexford (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegheny Health Network is seeking a Mental Health Professional to provide outpatient clinical treatment services for patients with mental health diagnoses. The role involves developing assessments, treatment plans, and encounters while ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines and high-quality documentation.

The position emphasizes collaboration with a multidisciplinary clinical team, coordinating referrals to appropriate levels of care, and contributing to ongoing quality assurance and

Qualifications

• Master's degree required in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Education (School Counseling), or related field.
• CPR certification (American Heart Association).
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to regulatory requirements while developing assessments and therapeutic interventions, treatment plans, and encounter forms, ensuring effective services and strict documentation.
• Discusses need for additional services with the clinical team and refers patients to other levels of care or community resources as needed.
• Acts as liaison to professional services to ensure patient care requirements are met and participates in internal and external meetings.
• Participates in quality assurance and performance improvement activities of the program.

Education

Master's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Education (School Counseling), or related field

Job description

Company: Allegheny Health Network

General Overview

The Mental Health Professional will provide clinical treatment services to the targeted populations. This is an outpatient treatment program designed to service patients with a mental health diagnosis who meet dimensions for outpatient and/or partial hospitalization treatment criteria.

Essential Responsibilities

• Adheres to all regulatory requirements while developing and facilitating assessments and/or therapeutic interventions (individual, group, family), treatment plans, and encounter forms for assigned patients and/or providers, ensuring an effective continuum of services, guided by clinical decisions, and strictly adhering to all institute and regulatory guidelines for documentation, treatment, and case management, continuously adapting treatment concepts for optimal service delivery (70%).
• Discusses need for additional services with the clinical team to determine appropriateness of recommendations, refers patients to other levels of care, community-based self‑help programs for recovery or other community social or human services as needed (10%).
• Acts as liaison, both internally and externally, to professional services to ensure patient care requirements are met, participates in external and internal meetings as assigned (10%).
• Participates in the quality assurance and performance improvement activities of the program (10%).

Qualifications

• Minimum Master's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Education (School Counseling), or related field.
• CPR – American Heart Association.
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Compliance Requirements

This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies. Employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. All employees must comply with HIPAA as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices, Privacy Policies, and Procedures and all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy. The company’s Code of Business Conduct requires adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations and company policies and training requirements.

EEO Statement

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