The Senior Therapist works in a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing treatment services according to the Center for Discovery Clinical Model. Therapist responsibilities include ensuring patient safety providing milieu interventions leading psychoeducational and processoriented therapy groups facilitate clinical assessments conduct therapy sessions and other case management tasks as assigned.
Essential Job Functions
- Ensures clinical documentation is completed timely throughout the course of treatment and meets clinical quality standards outlined in policies.
- Completes and responds to documentation requirements and timelines to ensure compliance with the monthly medical record review per the Medical Record Review Policy.
- Establish therapeutic rapport with patients and families/loved ones.
- Facilitates admission assessments and the admission process for new patients with professionalism courtesy and a welcoming attitude.
- Understands role in providing expeditious access to care for individuals seeking services.
- Participates in weekly treatment team and communicates weekly treatment goals with all team members.
- Completes appropriate number of therapy sessions weekly for patients including family/support system sessions aligned with the patients level of care.
- RTC: two individual sessions and one family/support system session
- PHP: one individual session and one family/support system session
- IOP: one therapeutic session individual or family/support system as clinically indicated
- Facilitates process orientated and psychoeducation groups one to two times daily.
- Required to sit at a meal and/or snack a minimum of once per week
- Facilitates multifamily groups family program and/or family weekend.
- Provides utilization reviews to insurance companies providing appropriate clinical information to obtain initial authorization and continuing stay authorization as necessary.
- Is appropriately accessible to family members or loved ones.
- Assesses patients for suicidality and possibility of danger to self or others.
- May provide additional clinical support for other members of the clinical team in their absence.
- Begins discharge planning on day of admission for all patients.
- Completes discharge session with patient to ensure coping skills transition plan and resources are understood and intact.
- Ensures discharge appointments are confirmed with patient and loved ones prior to discharge.
- Communicates with referral sources and outpatient providers for continuity of care upon admission midpoint and discharge.
- Provides support to milieu staff in their interactions with patients and their loved ones.
- Provides clinical supervision to other clinicians in the organization as assigned.
This is a fulltime position working MonFri 95pm.
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Qualifications :
- Masters or Doctorate degree in relevant field required
- Holds active state license
- Five or more years of experience working in the mental health field required
- Minimum of three years of experience working with eating disorders required
- Must possess a current drivers license and be in good standing
Not sure if you meet all the qualifications Apply anyway! To provide truly innovative care we need to have a diverse team around us. Thats why Discovery Behavioral Health is committed to creating an inclusive environment. If you find yourself meeting some but not all the above wed be happy to consider your application.
Additional Information :
We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drugfree workplace and perform preemployment substance abuse testing. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex or national origin.
For more information about our company benefits please visit us at discoverybehavioralhealth/careers/
Discovery Behavioral Health seeks to build a diverse staff that is reflective of the patients we serve and the communities where we work. DBH encourages multiple perspectives experiences and strives to hire and retain a diverse workforce.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime