Provides mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis intervention services for adult and/or child members with a broad range of mental health. Collaborates with treating physician, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual members treatment program. Provides consultation to psychiatrists, allied health professionals, and other specialty care providers on psychological and neuropsychological assessment.
Essential Functions:
- Develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates clinical treatment programs for the diagnosis, treatment, and/or referral of Health Plan members with acute or chronic mental illness.
- Participates in staff conferences to select, plan, and evaluate treatment programs.
- Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and groups.
- Instructs and counsels patients and their families regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens and adherence to prescribed medication regimens, within the scope of practice.
- May administer specialized therapeutic procedures, as appropriate.
- Provides appropriate support to member's family.
- May develop and conducts psycho-educational classes and groups.
- May conduct psychological assessments, including test administration, interpretation, and recommendations.
- Prepares intake summaries, treatment plans, and case summaries and maintains ongoing confidential records.
- Charts member's treatment and progress in accord with state and NCQA regulations and in keeping with accepted community standards.
- May be required to participate in the department on-call rotation.
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating patients for psychotropic medications, within the scope of practice.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the member's treatment.
- May develop, implements, and evaluates behavioral medicine and health psychology programs in a variety of settings, including primary care.
- Provides consultation to primary care providers and health educators on matters relating to mental health, health psychology and behavioral medicine.
- Provides clinical supervision to pre-doctoral psychology interns, postdoctoral psychology fellows, and other mental health trainees as necessary.
- May supervise Psychiatric Assistants and Psychiatric Interns.
Secondary Functions:
- Crisis intervention, evaluation, assessment, and consultation/liaison service.
- Both individual and group psychotherapy with a variety of patients and psychiatric conditions.
- Psychological assessments.
- Treat external and internal customers in a respectful, friendly, helpful, and professional manner at all times.
- Required to participate in department on-call rotation.
- Must adhere to the service expectations of the department and facility.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Psychologist: Minimum of two years professional experience under the direction of a licensed psychologist or board certified psychiatrist. PhD, PsyD, or EdD in clinical or counseling required from an accredited college or university. Current valid license to practice psychology in the State of California.
or
- LCSW: Masters degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university and Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker license in the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Knowledge of social service agencies, state regulations and APA standards as it related to client treatment, patient rights and client/patient confidentiality.
- Previous clinical responsibilities to include psychological testing, diagnosis, crisis intervention, brief individual and group psychotherapy.
- Knowledge of psychological testing techniques, administration and interpretation.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in crisis intervention and telephone triage with adults, families, and children.
- Demonstrated knowledge of principles, methods, and theory of the practice of psychotherapy with a variety of adult patients.
- Experience in personality and neuropsychological evaluation.
- Experience in hospital consultation.
- Experience in individual and group psychotherapy with adults and couples.
- Able to interact effectively with patients and co-workers in a courteous manner.
- Fexible to meet the needs of the department
- Good oral and written skills.
- Legible handwriting and good record keeping qualities.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.