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:
- Triage of telephone and walk-in Health Plan Members to the Department of Psychiatry to determine disposition.
- Ensure written reports are made available to clinicians.
- Will be available to consult with the facility.
- Will consult and/ or provide assessment in the Emergency Department.
- Will evaluate for suicidality and hospitalize as necessary.
- Provide crisis management and interventions.
- May provide crisis groups, psychotherapy groups or Brief Individual treatment.
- Collaborate with physicians and other professionals to provide continuum of care.
- Maintain and develop working relationship with other Kaiser Providers as well as community.
- Participate in staff, team and all mandatory meetings.
- Documentation must meet NCQA Standards.
- Maintain confidential records for clients served.
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 experience in crisis management and interventions, assessments and triage of patients.
- Be able to work collaboratively as well as autonomously in multidisciplinary team setting.
- Knowledge of community resources preferred.
- Bi-lingual skills preferred
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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