Mental Health Therapist (LSW/ LPC)

About the role

The Behavioral Health Provider (BHP) provides continuing, comprehensive behavioral health treatment and medical support to the patients of Primary Health Solutions. All duties are performed with a specific focus on providing culturally competent health care to the underserved. Acts as the advocate for improving health care quality and access for all populations.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical services for referred patients in school and/or clinic settings.
• Offers consultation to area schools and agencies.
• Provides treatment and/or care coordination of mental health issues.
• Conducts clinical assessments.
• Develops and implements integrated wellness plans consistent with principles of client self-management.
• Facilitates behavioral interventions and crisis interventions.
• Collaborates with agency staff and community service providers to coordinate referrals and delivery of services, and completes discharge plans.
• Provides training, skills, and patient education strategies, and develops specific behavioral change plans for patients and behavioral health protocols.
• Maintains complete medical records, including history, physical exams, and telephone message summaries.
• Completes appropriate progress notes in each assigned work area plus other special patient forms.
• Completes appropriate correspondence, phone calls, and letters to patients and referring physicians.
• Participates in health collaborative/health improvement activities.
• Carries out medical administrative functions necessary for quality patient care and compliance with accreditation requirements.
• Participates in committee activities and chart reviews.
• May participate in Quality Improvement and Risk Management activities and committee work in assigned areas.
• Attends Department/Center meetings as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Social Work or Clinical Mental Health Counseling required from an approved program.
• Two years of experience (preferred) working with indigent populations and community-based programs.
• Must be licensed by the State of Ohio Board of Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists (CSWMFT) as LSW, LISW, LPC, or LPCC.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to gain knowledge of current practice management system, electronic medical record, Microsoft Word, Internet, and Intranet.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work effectively and independently with all levels of clinical and administrative staff within the health centers and with community leaders.
• Strong leadership qualities and leadership experience.
• Demonstrated program development and implementation skills.
• Ability to represent the organization effectively in a variety of settings and with diverse communities.
• Demonstrated understanding and appreciation for diverse cultures.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of radiation.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.