Mental Health Clinician

Overview

Excellent Healthcare Services is a behavioral health agency that services the West Baltimore area, it is currently expanding it services and is looking at adding an experienced clinician to its team to provide Mental Health therapy.

Position Purpose/Summary

The primary responsibility of the Mental Health therapist/clinician’s position is to perform diagnostics interviews, and evaluate patients referred for mental problems such as situational disorder, neuroses, major mental illness, and psychoses. This post-holder will also provide diagnosis and recommendation for inpatient or outpatient treatment. This position requires a great deal of organizational, documentation, and relational skills to ensure a good working relationship with clients and accurately documents treatment encounters and treatments. The role will also provide Board licensed supervision to applicable staff.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure the delivery of client-centered services to all clients.
• Deliver excellent client service to excellent healthcare stakeholders.
• Ensure continuous improvement of the excellent healthcare’s behavioral health treatment processes and operations.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Conduct Psycho-socio assessment and make necessary recommendation for the next step of treatment.
• Sets objectives and goals for treatment and develops treatment plans, implements and monitors treatment plan. Provides individual or group treatment, such as psychotherapy, supportive therapy or crisis intervention on a long term or short-term basis.
• Consult with family, community and external health agencies to obtain information and to coordinate therapy, and to help patients utilize resources of agencies.
• Maintains patient’s chart and records, including evaluation, progress notes, individual treatment plan, and discharge summaries.
• Makes arrangement for inpatient care for patients as needed to facilitate admission to hospital, state or other private institution.
• Provide Board-approved supervision to designated team members and also general clinical oversight.
• Foster a staff culture that supports excellent healthcare values and codes of conduct.
• Provide assistance and information to excellent healthcare management as requested.
  
• Compliance and attendance of scheduled clinical supervision meetings.
• Compliance with all administrative and clinical policies and procedures including HIPPA.
• Participation in the peer review process as coordinated by the agency.
• Participation in all scheduled staff meetings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Other responsibilities

There are a number of standard duties and responsibilities that all employees, irrespective of their role and level of seniority with excellent healthcare, are expected to be familiar with and adhere to:

• Comply at all times with the requirements of health and safety regulations to ensure their own wellbeing and that of their colleagues.
• Promote and comply with excellent healthcare's policies on diversity and equality both in the delivery of services and treatment of others.
• Ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in according with the provision of the HIPPA regulations and all related rules and regulations.
• Comply with the excellent healthcare's protocols on the appropriate use of telephone, email and internet facilities.
• Comply with the principles of risk management in relation to individual and corporate responsibilities.
• Comply with excellent healthcare policies on diversity and equality both in the delivery of services and treatment of others.

This Job description is not exhaustive and as such the post holder is expected to be flexible. Any changes will only be made following a discussion with the post holder.

Job Requirement

Education: Minimum of a master’s degree in social work, psychology and Mental Health counseling or a related field from an accredited college or university.

Special Requirement: In addition to a master’s degree, candidates must have a valid license as a Licensed Clinical social worker or professional counselor [LCSW-C or LCPC].

Experience: At least one year of professional experience working in Mental Health, in a public or certified private welfare or health agency providing counseling, psychotherapy and related social services to individuals.

Personal qualities

• A self-starter who is able to work with minimum supervision.
• High motivated and flexible.
• Client centered and organized approach to client care.
• A good team player a confident person.
• Demonstrate a high level of integrity, patience, compassion, care and professionalism in dealing with pressured, unpredictable and sensitive situations in relation to client care.

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COVID-19 considerations:
To keep our employees and consumers safe, we are providing masks, hand sanitizers and gloves and also completing services via telehealth where possible.