Senior Clinician - Behavioral Sciences Campus

About the role

UTHealth Houston's Behavioral Sciences Campus, the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country, is hiring a Senior Clinician. Our Behavioral Sciences Campus serves 27 counties and offers individualized inpatient treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders across its 23 on-site units, totaling 538 beds.

UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. We reward our team for the excellent service they provide with a total rewards package that includes benefits, insurance, and more.

Responsibilities

Provides professional case management and clinical therapeutic services in an acute care psychiatric hospital focused on overseeing the quality of inpatient mental health services in assigned areas.

• Provides indirect services to patients and acts as an advocate for the patient/family with the treatment team.
• Provides direct services to patients including biopsychosocial/psychosocial assessment, discharge planning, and treatment that includes individual, group, and family therapy, crisis intervention, and treatment planning.
• Provides oversight of patient's care, progress in treatment, and progress toward discharge to prevent both the over-utilization and the under-utilization of inpatient treatment services.
• Works with a multidisciplinary treatment team to develop an individualized treatment and discharge plan that enables patients to quickly return to outpatient treatment programs.
• Develops a discharge plan that will support patient's ongoing recovery and development.
• Assesses the psychosocial functioning of patients at admission and throughout the treatment program.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with community resources to assist patients' medical needs at discharge for ongoing treatment, residence, financial support, transportation, education, and vocational rehabilitation.
• Refers patients and family to community resources.
• Applies for court-ordered mental health services for patients unable or unwilling to consent to treatment deemed necessary to protect the life of the patient or others.
• Presents to the Probate Court, both in writing and in oral testimony, reports of the specific patient's behaviors prompting the request for involuntary admissions for services.
• Provides training to staff and supervision of students and incumbents in the Clinician I position.
• Provides consultation within the department regarding subject matter expertise.
• Participates in community outreach activities such as speaker boards and serves on committees as appointed by the Director, Social Services.

Requirements

• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) by State of Texas required or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by State of Texas required or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) by Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors required.
• Master's Degree in a behavioral science required.
• 2 years of experience in a mental health setting required.
• Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Benefits

Our total rewards package includes:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees.
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year).
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service).
• Retirement/pension plan.
• Work/life services such as free financial and legal counseling, free mental health counseling services, gym membership discounts, and access to wellness programs.
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care.