Mental Health Therapist Licensed

002 Sea Mar Community Health Center; Tumwater (WA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Washington seeks a Licensed Mental Health Therapist to provide diagnostic assessments, crisis stabilization, and case management in coordination with other teams. The LMHT supports patients in chronic illness programs and inpatient collaborations, ensuring proper discharge planning.

The role includes individual counseling, suicide risk assessment, treatment planning, and supervision of other clinicians pursuing licensing requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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 on health service referrals and 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 patient charts from intake to encounters, crisis plans, and related records.

Job description

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.

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization.

Job Title Licensed Mental Health Therapist

Position Summary This individual provides diagnostic assessments, referrals for psychiatric services, and case management in coordination with other teams or parties involved in treatment. The Licensed Mental Health Therapist is responsible for providing care to chronically ill patients, patients who are part of the Intensive outpatient program, or patients who are considered high utilizers. The Licensed Mental Health Therapist is responsible for working with CDMHP’s, inpatient facilities, including Western State Hospital, and ensuring proper protocols are followed for hospitalization authorization and during discharge planning. In addition, the Licensed Mental Health Therapist provides individual counseling, crisis stabilization, suicide risk assessment and treatment plans, and leads groups. The Licensed Mental Health Therapist provides therapy to managed care patients that are pre-authorized to receive mental health treatment. The Licensed Mental Health Therapist provides clinical supervision to other clinicians who are perusing the Licensing requirements. The Licensed Mental Health Therapist assists the Program Manager and clinical supervisor to conduct clinical chart reviews. In addition, this person supports the agency efforts to ensure compliance with WACs, RCWs, and clinical contracts. This job description does not suggest or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. This person will be required to follow other instructions and to perform other duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

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. Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

• 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

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

ADMINISTRATIVE

• The LMHT maintains a caseload in compliance with agency caseload and productivityrequirements.
• 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 ProgramManager.
• Educates staff regarding the process for health service referrals and regarding \"psychoeducational topics (suicide risk assessment, behavior modification, evidence basedpractices, etc.)\" as directed by the Program Director and/or clinical supervisor.
• Maintains documentation of health services, and follows through on patient charts, including butnot limited to: intake, assessment, treatment plan, crisis plan, RSN paper work, clinicalencounters, 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 dependencycounselor and other individuals involved in the client’s clinical care.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of thepatients served.
• Demonstrates clinical competencies and proper use of approved diagnostic tools to justifyclinical 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