Therapist (Outpatient Clinic)

Highland Rivers Health in; Dalton (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Personal Day

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

NHSC loan forgiveness

Clinical supervision for licensure

Job summary

Highland Rivers Behavioral Health is seeking a Therapist for an Outpatient Clinic to serve individuals in an outpatient setting. The role includes case management, referrals, screenings/assessments, and delivering individual, group, and family counseling, plus crisis intervention.

You will work as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team, complete required paperwork, coordinate with referral sources, and support client recovery through evidence-based interventions and personalized care plans.

Responsibilities

• Provides assessments and individual, family, crisis, and group counseling per treatment plans.
• Completes paperwork per Policy and Procedure and verifies eligibility or refers to community providers.
• Manages caseload, ensures services are authorized, and maintains current charts.
• Contacts referral sources promptly, facilitates authorization, and advocates for individuals.
• Encourages recovery using evidence-based interventions and develops comprehensive care plans.
• Participates on an interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job description

Therapist (Outpatient Clinic) (Finance)

There is a place for you at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health! Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities. Are you ready to make a Difference?

Job Summary

The Therapist serves individuals in an Outpatient setting. The Therapist provides individualized case management and accepts clinical responsibilities including: referrals; screenings/assessments, individual, group and family counseling, and crisis intervention.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Provides assessments, individual, family, crisis, and group counseling for individuals according to their treatment plans; completes paperwork according to Policy and Procedure.
• Completes all necessary paperwork according to Policy and Procedure; ensures individuals meet eligibility criteria or refers to appropriate provider in the community.
• Manages a caseload by ensuring all services are authorized, chart paperwork is complete and current, and individual charts are closed according to Policy and Procedure.
• Takes ownership for individual and referral source satisfaction by returning phone calls in a timely manner, communicating with referral sources with appropriate authorization, link and/or serve as advocate for individuals as needed.
• Encourages individual responsibility and recovery by utilizing evidenced-based interventions, providing comprehensive and ongoing assessment, referring individuals to appropriate internal and external services, involving and educating family, seeking and utilizing supervision, developing individualized and comprehensive plan of care based on the individual's strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences.
• Participates as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health Insurance through the State Health Benefit Plan of GA
• Flexible Benefits such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, etc.
• Retirement Plan with employer matching
• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off with increase of accruals based on years of service
• 10 paid holidays
• 1 personal day
• Qualifying employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness
• NHSC loan forgiveness in qualifying counties.
• Clinical supervision for candidates on a licensure track.