Mental Health Professional III PRN

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Mental Health Professional III role at LewisGale Medical Center delivers exceptional psychiatric treatment to patients and their loved ones. Key responsibilities include evaluations, psycho-education, group activities, treatment planning, discharge mapping, and therapeutic counseling.

What You Will Do

• 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, resolving 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.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• Basic Cardiac Life Support, or BCLS Instructor
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
• Licensed Professional/Mental Health Counselor (LPC/LMHC)
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)

Benefits

• 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
• Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

Note

The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the wage range of $24.87 - $34.82 per hour. Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and position.