Behavioral Health Counselor - Inpatient Mental Health

UPMC Chautauqua is seeking a full-time Behavioral Health Counselor for the Inpatient Mental Health Department. This position offers a day shift schedule with weekends and holidays off.

About the role

Provide clinical treatment services to patients in an inpatient setting.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge of behavior support techniques and skills to aid in the development of individualized behavior plans.
• Assist with care coordination to ensure the highest quality of care to clients and families.
• Facilitate referrals for other clinical services during treatment and at discharge.
• Demonstrate knowledge of structured clinical assessment tools including specific measures of psychiatric symptomatology, family functioning, and academic achievement with an ability to communicate results and recommended course of treatment to families and other professionals.
• Complete all necessary department documentation per established policies and participate in interagency team meetings.
• Actively participate, coordinate, and liaison with other services to facilitate the resolution of any problematic issue related to service delivery.
• Provide individual and family therapy in a community and/or inpatient/outpatient setting.
• Ensure behavior plans are implemented with fidelity by staff to maximize effectiveness.
• Provide direct care to assigned patients and direct clinical supervision to assigned staff (modes include individual, group, and onsite supervision).
• Conduct treatment team meetings.
• Develop expertise in child/adolescent/adult psychopathology, crisis intervention/de-escalation techniques, and behavioral therapy.
• Participate in necessary trainings related to the provision of services.
• Conduct ongoing evaluations of behavior plans after implementation to assess if plans need to be updated.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Psychology, Child Development, Applied Behavior Analysis, Early Intervention, Education, Special Education, Instruction in Learning, Social Work, or a related field.
• One year of clinical experience preferred.
• Knowledge of behavior principles, evaluation and assessment process, as well as application of current version of the DSM preferred.

Qualifications

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), or Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) preferred.
• CCM training required within 60 days of hire and annually thereafter.
• NY Mandated Reporter certification required within 90 days of hire/transfer.
• Comprehensive Crisis Management (CCMC) certification.
• NYS Staff Exclusion List (NYSEL) clearance.
• NYS Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse (NYSCR) clearance.