Licensed Masters Mental Health Professional

About the role

Provides mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis intervention services for adult and/or child members who present themselves from psychiatric evaluation with a broad range of mental health needs. Collaborates with treating physician, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual member treatment program. Primary Location: Gilroy Medical Offices, California. Work setting is flexible with travel required approximately 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates clinical treatment programs for the diagnosis, treatment, and/or referral of Health Plan members with acute or chronic mental illness.
• Participates in staff conferences to select, plan, and evaluate treatment programs.
• Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and groups.
• Instructs and counsels patients and their families regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens and adherence to prescribed medication regimens, within the scope of practice.
• May administer specialized therapeutic procedures, as appropriate.
• Provides appropriate support to members family.
• May develop and conducts psychoeducational classes and groups.
• Prepares intake summaries, treatment plans, and case summaries and maintains ongoing confidential records.
• Charts members treatment and progress in accord with state and NCQA regulations and in keeping with accepted community standards.
• May be required to participate in the department on-call rotation.
• Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating patients for psychotropic medications, within the scope of practice.
• Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members treatment.
• May develop, implements, and evaluates behavioral medicine and health psychology programs in a variety of settings, including primary care.
• Provides consultation to other care providers and health educators on matters relating to mental health, health psychology and behavioral medicine.
• May supervise Post Masters Fellows, Associate Clinical Social Workers, Associate Marriage Family Therapists or Associate Professional Clinical Counselors as needed if supervision course is completed.
• May provide appropriate support to members family, including explanation of treatment, instructions in how to support treatment and interventions to increase acceptance of and adherence to treatment, at members request.
• Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources, as appropriate.
• Participates in departmental program development, implementation and evaluation.
• Reports safety concerns to mandated reporting agencies.

Requirements

Education: Masters degree in Social Work, Social Welfare from a clinical track, Clinical or Counseling