Therapist - Behavioral Health

Kettering Health; Beavercreek (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettering Health is seeking a full-time Physician Office professional in Beavercreek, Ohio. The role involves evaluating patients, assessing complex conditions, and ensuring quality care. Candidates must have a master’s degree from an approved program and a current LPCC or LISW license in Ohio, alongside mental health experience with adults. The position requires strong communication, critical thinking, and assessment skills, along with the ability to adapt teaching approaches based on patient needs.

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience providing individual therapy required.
• Mental health experience with adult population; child/adolescent experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates signs and symptoms including age-appropriate changes.
• Assesses complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients.
• Monitors and ensures quality of the healthcare practice.
• Engages in improving one's own practice and participates professionally.

Skills

Ability to communicate and relate well with staff

Awareness of patient confidentiality

Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships

Assessment skills and critical thinking

Ability to multi-task and work under stress

Managing healthcare delivery systems

Education

Master’s degree from approved Counseling or Social Work program with LPCC or LISW license

Job description

Overview

Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. Our mission is to live God’s love by promoting and restoring health. Our commitment to our patients is to help individuals be their best. With that context, safety is our top priority. We provide an integrated system of healthcare experts committed to providing exceptional care.

Job Details: Physician Office | Beavercreek | Full-Time | First Shift

Responsibilities

• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care).
• Assesses the complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patient and obtains relevant comprehensive and problem-focused bio-psychosocial health histories, prioritizing data collection and using collateral sources as necessary (medical knowledge and patient care).
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and reformulate, as necessary, differential diagnoses by priority, identifies the presence of co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain functioning and ensure patient safety.
• Participates to facilitate effective coordinated patient care.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice; implements treatment and referral orders; and communicates with other health care team members.
• Monitors and ensures the quality of the healthcare practice through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.
• Engages in improving one\'s own practice as well as interdisciplinary peer and colleague review.
• Adapts teaching and learning approaches based on physiological and psychological changes, age, developmental stage, cognitive status, readiness to learn, health literacy, environment, and available resources (professionalism).
• Participates professionally and works collaboratively to identify processes and principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system-based).

Minimum Education

• Master’s degree of approved Counseling or Social Work program with current LPCC or LISW license in the state of Ohio.

Work Experience

• 1 year of experience providing individual therapy.

Mental health experience with adult population required; child and adolescent population a plus.

Required Certifications

• Certified by the Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

Maintain requirements as mandated through the Ohio Counselor and Social Work Board. Includes yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations (HealthStream).

Required skills

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, providers, and the public.
• Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction.
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills.
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and work under stress.
• Mains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice.
• Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care.
• Professional role includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra- and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness; advocates on behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process.
• Managing and negotiating healthcare delivery systems — skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services.