Mental Health Therapist III

002 Sea Mar Community Health Center; Kelso (WA); Vor Ort; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Sea Mar Community Health Centers seeks a health services professional to provide administrative and clinical support within a multidisciplinary team. The role involves coordinating care, maintaining health service documentation, and ensuring adherence to agency policies.

You will engage in patient assessments, treatment planning, and collaboration with psychiatric and clinical staff to support patient care.

Aufgaben

• ADMINISTRATIVE: Maintains a caseload in compliance with agency caseload and productivity requirements.
• Assists in ensuring agency compliance with WACs, RCWs, and other laws, regulations, and contracts.
• Assists in developing and implementing policies and procedures as directed by the Program Manager.
• Educates staff regarding health service referrals and psychoeducational topics as directed by the Program Director.
• Maintains documentation of health services, and follows patient charts: intake, assessment, treatment plan, crisis plan, etc.

Jobbeschreibung

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Duties and Responsibilities

As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services.

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment

Job Description

• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

ADMINISTRATIVE

• The LMHT maintains a caseload in compliance with agency caseload and productivity requirements.
• Assists in ensuring agency compliance with WAC's, RCW's, and other pertinent laws, regulations, and contracts.
• Assists in developing and implementing policies and procedures as directed by the Program Manager.
• Educates staff regarding the process for health service referrals and regarding "psychoeducational topics (suicide risk assessment, behavior modification, evidence based practices, etc.) as directed by the Program Director and/or clinical supervisor.
• Maintains documentation of health services, and follows through on patient charts, including but not limited to: intake, assessment, treatment plan, crisis plan, RSN paper work, clinical encounters, 180 reviews, special population consultations, etc.

CLINICAL DUTIES

• Provides diagnostic assessments for each patient during the program. Documents outcomes, justifies diagnoses, and communicates with the primary care provider, chemical dependency counselor and other individuals involved in the client's clinical care.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Demonstrates clinical competencies and proper use of approved diagnostic tools to justify clinical diagnosis and practices.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Possesses a clear understanding and proper use of the clinical practice guidelines.
• Has the ability to identify and categorize each patient's age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.
• Refers patients to psychiatric services as appropriate. Gathers record materials and background information as needed by the community health center (See Policies and Procedures). Coordinates care with the psychiatric service provider to insure accuracy of presentation and that identified needs are addressed. Provides monitoring regarding the effects of medications, and feedback to the psychiatrist regarding effects/side effects.
• Provides consultation to Sea Mar staff regarding health and behavioral issues and develops treatment plans with staff to address emotional needs and behavioral problems identified for patients.
• Provides individual counseling in coordination with other systems as needed.
• Provides suicide risk assessment and develops treatment plans to address suicidal ideations or gestures. Uses case management as needed to provide follow through and build community support as follow through. Provides other crisis stabilization as needed.
• Gathers information regarding past health services to be used in the individual's treatment plan development. Provides referrals to patients prior to or following admission, and exchange information with outside service providers.

PRODUCTIVITY STANDARD

• Produces at a minimum 4 treatment encounters per day and at a minimum 920 clinical encounters per year.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfacto