Inpatient Therapist

What You Will Do in This Role

• Provide Psychotherapy and counseling therapies to patients suffering from psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. Therapies include group, individual and family.
• Ensure accurate and timely patient documentation.
• Actively communicates with clients, families, and outside referral sources, functioning within the scope of HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2.
• Demonstrates proactive communication with those involved with the patient’s treatment, documenting all correspondence held with patients and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrates heavy involvement in treatment planning for patients.
• Works with patient to achieve treatment plan goals and accurately documents progress.
• Demonstrates initiative to revise the treatment plan to create new goals for patients if appropriate.
• Ongoing and consistent collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including physicians, utilization review and nursing staff members.
• Demonstrates active communication with team members.
• Demonstrates the ability to work with the utilization review department.
• Ensures communication with UR on length of stay and treatment of patients.
• Creates thorough discharge plans with clients that meets the clients after care needs.
• Ensures both patient and appropriate family members or referral sources have appropriate paperwork in a timely manner after discharge to ensure continuum of care.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work or Counseling or relevant licensure in state of practice.
• Current unencumbered state licensure per state requirements.
• CPR and CPI Certification within 30 day of employment and prior to patient contact.
• Prior work with psychiatric and chemical dependency patients.

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental and vision plans provided to meet the needs of full employees and their families.
• Up to 16 days of PTO for full time employees.
• 6 paid holidays for full time employees.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• UKG Wallet - We've partnered with UKG Wallet, a voluntary Earned Wage Access benefit, to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.