Psychiatric Crisis Dept. Contingent Clinician

About the role

Looking for flexibility while making a meaningful impact? Join our collaborative Psychiatric Crisis Department team as a Contingent Clinician. This position requires a minimum commitment of 16 hours per month (or more if you want) and offers the flexibility to pick up available day, evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts based on your availability. Enjoy a supportive team environment, opportunities to maintain and expand crisis assessment skills, and shift differentials for eligible evening and overnight hours. Make a difference on a schedule that works for you.

Responsibilities

Provides mental health therapy services to clients in a behavioral health agency setting, utilizing evidence-based practices to promote recovery and improve overall well-being.

• Assists in developing specific, realistic, and measurable treatment goals and objectives.
• Accurately assesses and documents client presenting problems, history, symptomology, mental status, and diagnosis.
• Prescribes initial interventions in a timely manner.
• Employs strategies of intervention that are consistent with empirically supported treatments and consistent with program expectations.
• Remains current in general knowledge of psychopharmacology in pediatric behavioral healthcare and collaborates consistently with team psychiatrist.
• Coordinates client care with other service providers and community resources to assure continuity of care.
• Completes clinical charting and other related administrative paperwork in accordance with policy standards.

Qualifications

• Education: Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work or Marriage and Family Therapy, required. Doctorate, preferred.
• Licensure: Appropriate Independent Ohio License, preferred.
• Experience: Experience providing and managing behavioral healthcare to children, adolescent and families, required.

Skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to establish and maintain positive relationships with clients, families, peers and community representatives.

Requirements

• Occasionally: Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Loud Noises, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Working Outdoors
• Frequently: Bend/twist, Climb stairs/ladder, Flexing/extending of neck, Sitting, Squat/kneel, Standing, Walking
• Continuously: Audible speech, Color vision, Computer skills, Decision Making, Depth perception, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near

Benefits

• Supportive team environment.
• Opportunities to maintain and expand crisis assessment skills.
• Shift differentials for eligible evening and overnight hours.

Schedule

Minimum commitment of 16 hours per month (or more if desired). Flexibility to pick up available day, evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts based on availability.