This individual is responsible for providing therapeutic services to patients and functions as a direct liaison to the Director of Counseling regarding the status of the milieu.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
- High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelors degree in social or health services field from an accredited college or university preferred. Two or more years experience in counseling field is required;
- OR Bachelors degree in other field required and Four or more years experience in the counseling field;
- OR Masters degree in social or health services field required and one or more years professional work experience.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitors all admissions into Rehab RTC and PHP Level of Care and assigns due dates for each psychosocial assessment.
- Maintains a list of all completed psychosocial assessments as well as those that need to be completed.
- Communicates effectively with primary counselors when psychosocial assessments need to be completed and he/she in unable to meet with the patient for completion of the assessment.
- Completes and submits psychosocial assessment and integrated summary within 5 days of admission to REHAB or PHP level of care.
- Integrated summary is thorough and includes all pertinent information found within the assessment necessary for treatment plan (i.e. demographics biomedical conditions mental health concerns trauma history history of SI/HI employment status living arrangements etc).
- Communicates effectively with the patients treatment team as needed for crisis stabilization and/or revision of patients treatment plan.
- Evaluates the patients needs and determines if a psychiatric referral is needed.
- Provides crisis stabilization to patients as needed.
- Facilitates groups as needed for patient programming
- Sunday Thursday 8am4:30pm
BENEFITS: