Mental Health Professional I

Hourly wage estimate: $22.61 - $31.65. Factors such as skills, experience, and internal comparisons may influence the actual salary offered.

About the Role

As a Mental Health Professional I at LewisGale Medical Center, your goal is to create discharge plans that address patients' psychological, social, cultural, and financial needs to support their recovery and overall well-being. This role acts as a mediator between clinical teams, patients, families, and next-level care providers to ensure seamless and comprehensive care.

Responsibilities

• Conducts individual, group, and family psychoeducational groups.
• Contributes to treatment plan development and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.
• Assesses environment and patient’s safety status; reports and responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.
• Identifies risk factors, screening criteria, and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).
• Completes relevant assessments, group notes, and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patients’ discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.
• Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in social work or related field.
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention certification must be obtained within 60 days of employment start date.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Instructor certification must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• 1 year of experience required.

Benefits

LewisGale Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of colleagues. Available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs: paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources: 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support: tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits: fertility and family building support, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About the Organization

LewisGale Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1909, offering patients access to trained physicians and advanced technology. The 500+ bed hospital is a leading acute care facility in the Salem area, specializing in heart and vascular care, orthopedics and spine care, mental and behavioral health services, and cancer care. The organization is committed to a "care like family" culture, extending compassionate and safe care to patients, employees, and the community.

HCA Healthcare, the parent organization, has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times and has invested an estimated $3.7 billion in charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses in recent years.