Mental Health Professional III

Job Summary

The Mental Health Professional III role at Mission Hospital delivers exceptional psychiatric treatment to patients and their loved ones. Responsibilities include evaluations, psycho-education, group activities, treatment planning, discharge mapping, and therapeutic counseling.

Qualifications

• Maintains effective communication with patients, families, multidisciplinary teams, and continuum of care providers.
• Maintains professionalism and uses good communication skills to interact with peers, staff, patients, and families, and resolve conflicts.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and ability to maintain clear professional boundaries with peers, patients, and families.
• Provides education and guidance about state commitment processes, abuse reporting requirements, the duty to warn, and guardianship processes.
• Demonstrates knowledge and role in hospital codes.
• Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, payer representatives, and other parties as appropriate about behavioral services.
• Reviews, coaches, and helps with the training of new staff/interns as assigned within approved practice and program guidelines.
• Participates in developing department goals and clinical programming.
• Performs utilization review as assigned.
• Helps with Process and Quality Improvement initiatives.

What You Will Need

• Basic Cardiac Life Support within 30 days of employment start date.
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention within 30 days of employment start date.
• Masters Degree (LCSW, LPC/LMHC, Psychologist, LMFT) within 30 days of employment start date.

Benefits

Mission Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our 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 for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 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 through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.

Note

We are reviewing applications for our Mental Health Professional III opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!