Therapist, Licensed

Miami, FL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Current Employees:

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The University of Miami Health System UHealth Department of Pediatrics-Hematology has an exciting opportunity for a Full-time Therapist Licensed to work in Miami.

The Therapist Licensed coordinates and provides individualized case management group therapy and bio-psychosocial assessment services including group and family counseling for clients within the facility. The incumbent demonstrates expertise in the development of client resources vocational counseling discharge and continuing care planning and client placement.

Core Responsibilities:

Relates to and interacts well with patients to meet their age-specific physical and psychosocial needs.
Interviews and evaluates patients to determine need and develops treatment plans accordingly.
Works in conjunction with multidisciplinary service teams to ensure implementation of coordinated psychosocial services.
Prepares progress notes reports and correspondence for assigned patients and maintains case records.
Conducts ongoing individual groups and family counseling sessions with patients.
Completes psychosocial evaluations diagnoses psychological disorders prepares comprehensive clinical summaries and makes recommendations for treatment.
Interprets psychological or psychiatric case information based on patient interviews and medical or psychiatric sources.
Completes and maintains all required client-related and programmatic documentation.
Performs routine data collection tasks for studies.
Serves as program liaison to collaborating service providers and treatment centers.
Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions:

Provides psychoeducational testing as needed to patients with hematological disorders under the supervision of team psychologist.
Provides consultation individual and family outpatient psychotherapy (brief and long-term). Common presenting problems are: crisis intervention pain management internalizing problems externalizing problems adherence to medical regimen and overall coping with treatment.
Consult with medical team and provide feedback after consultations.
Participate in patient educational activities held throughout the year.
Collect patient reported outcome data as standard of care as well as for research protocols as needed.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Masters degree in relevant field required
Minimum 1 year of relevant experience required
Valid State of Florida Licensure in relevant field
Ability to learn new procedures technologies and protocols and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
Skilled in using office software technology and relevant computer applications.
Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System South Floridas only university-based health system provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center we are proud to serve South Florida Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching research and patient care. Were the challenge youve been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Click here for additional information.

Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Staff

Pay Grade:

Current Employees:If you are a current Staff Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position using the Career worklet please review this tip sheet.The Univer...