Behavioral Health Clinician IOP - LCSW, LPC or LMFT

About the role

Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands is north Houston’s first true, free-standing pediatric hospital designed, equipped and staffed exclusively to provide care in more than 25 areas of specialty care for children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Provides evidence-based and developmentally appropriate screenings/assessment, and focused patient/family counseling/therapy in accordance with the patients/families right to self-determination and principles of confidentiality.
• Provides psychosocial screenings/assessments by interviewing patients and/or their families for information about the patients’ social, emotional/psychological, developmental/educational/vocational, environmental, financial and health situations, within authorization periods, as required for patient care and/or treatment/transitional planning.
• Provides evidence based psychotherapy for individual, family, parent and groups to help patients/families reduce symptoms of mental illness and improve functioning across environments.
• Establishes achievable treatment goals with patients.
• Tracks patient progress via ongoing symptom and functional assessment, using reliable and valid measures where available, and adjusts treatment plan in accordance with findings.
• Creates and manages individualized and/or family treatment plans to address mental health needs of patient.
• Completes therapy notes for each individual/family therapy session(s) and/or summaries regarding services when needed.
• Assists in maintaining privacy and confidentiality of therapy records.
• Complies with all expectations set by licensing board and by TCH compliance/risk management regarding informed consent, confidentiality, and documentation of services provided.
• Collaborates with other mental health providers to insure selected treatments match the patient’s current diagnosis, symptoms, developmental level, and functioning across environments.
• Participates in provider's conferences to identify and respond to the psychosocial needs of the patients/families and to provide psychosocial information pertinent to formulating Plans of Care.
• Affirms and follows up with provider's recommendations of changes in the patient/family status and/or needs, as appropriate.
• Develops, implements and/or updates comprehensive pediatric or adult women's social work care plans.
• Facilitates patient/family use of community resources.
• Pursues Professional Development.
• Provides clinical supervision for LMSWs working LCSW licensure.

Requirements

• Master's Degree Social Work or related field required
• LCSW - Lic Clinical Social Worker by the Texas Behavioral Health Ex Council (TBHEC)
• LPC - Licensed Prof Counselor by the Texas Behavioral Health Ex Council (TBHEC)
• LMFT - Lic Marriage & Family Therapist by the Texas Behavioral Health Ex Council (TBHEC)
• 2 years social work, professional counseling or marriage/family therapist experience required
• Previous employment in health care, a health care specialization in schooling or a field work practicum in health care preferred