Interviews, assesses and evaluates patients and families who present themselves for psychiatric dysfunction; provides professional counseling and treatment with the goal of maximizing personal/familial functioning.
Essential Functions:
- Interviews patients and family members to assess nature and extent of psychiatric problem.
- Develops, implements and evaluates treatment approaches for patients and affected family members.
- This may include individual, marital, family, group and intensive therapeutic modalities.
- Maintains confidential individual case summaries.
- Confers and consults with staff physicians regarding patient's progress and treatment; confers with attending physicians regarding hospitalized patients and recommends treatment plans.
- Provides appropriate support to member's family, including explanation of treatment, instructions in how to support treatment and interventions to increase acceptance of and adherence to treatment.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the member's treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources.
- Establishes liaisons to utilize resources of public and private agencies/community organizations to meet member and program needs.
- Participates in departmental program development, implementation and evaluation.
- This position does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.
Secondary Functions:
- This position will provide mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis interventions services for clients requesting care in this department.
- Collaborate with treating physicians, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual member's treatment program.
- Provides consultation to psychiatrists, allied health professionals and other specialty care providers on psychological assessment.
- Participate in staff conferences to select, plan and evaluate treatment programs.
- Prepare intake summaries, treatment plans and other written material to maintain ongoing confidential records.
- The position will provide on call service on a rotation basis that will require nights and weekends
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Previous post license, paid experience as a member of a psychiatric treatment team in an outpatient setting/program under licensed supervision (usually two (2) to four (4) years).
- Master's degree in applied behavioral science required.
- Current license as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in the State of California.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Knowledge of state regulations with regard to ethics, treatment, patient rights and confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of two years Professional experience under a license practitioner.
- Graduated from an accredited college or university.
- Current valid license to practice or eligible for completing license requirement to practice.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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