Primary Therapist
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Job Description
Overview
Be inspired. Be rewarded. Belong. At Emory Healthcare.
At Emory Healthcare we fuel your professional journey with better benefits valuable resources ongoing mentorship and leadership programs for all types of jobs and a supportive environment that enables you to reach new heights in your career and be what you want to be. We provide:
- Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
- Family-focused benefits
- Wellness incentives
- Ongoing mentorship development and leadership more!
Description
- Provides high quality patient care displaying good skills in psychiatric counseling.
- Provides group therapy individual counseling family and marriage counseling and discharge planning.
- Functions as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provides diagnostic evaluations and interprets complex psychosocial factors for a variety of psychiatric and addiction patients.
- Relates accepted theories of psychiatry/psychology to practice situations.
- Assesses the particular needs of psychiatric and addiction patients and their families when appropriate to the patients treatment.
- Assesses conflicts and problems leading to complaints and symptoms that bring individuals to inpatient/outpatient psychiatric/addiction treatment.
- Provides emergency assessment of potential patients in need of inpatient hospitalization or other appropriate alternatives.
- Conducts assigned groups and therapy sessions with patients and/or their families and documents per policy.
- Makes referral to aftercare group therapy for former patients.
- May conduct therapy sessions for Partial Hospitalization day or evening program or evening Aftercare groups.
- Ensures that clear treatment plans are concisely written in the patient charts.
- Writes follow-up progress notes on each patient chart at the completion of each activity or therapeutic exchange as observed case annotations and entries.
- Completes all program discharge and aftercare document forms on or before discharge date.
- Requires instruction only in highly complex new or specialized methods or procedures.
- Performs work at an advanced specialized and independent level.
- Maintains confidentiality of department and employee information according to established procedures with no breaches and/or errors.
- Ensures the security of the department files at the end of each work day to protect confidential information.
- Participates in team staffing on a daily basis.
- Makes team aware of pertinent information gleaned from interaction with patients and/or their families.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- A masters degree in Psychology Social Work or related field and LCSW LMSW LMFT LMHC LPC LAPC or License Eligible.
- Completion of a comprehensive internship in a psychiatric setting.
- Licensure must be received within 90 days of employment.
- BLS certification required.
Additional Details
Emory is an equal opportunity employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.
Emory Healthcare is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact Emory Healthcares Human Resources at . Please note that one weeks advance notice is preferred.
Employment Type
Full-Time
