Mental Health Professional

Job description

The Mental Health Professional III is to deliver exceptional, patient-focused care by providing supervised mental health services to patients and their loved ones. Their responsibilities include conducting assessments, offering psycho-education, leading process groups, developing treatment plans, and facilitating therapeutic counseling sessions using evidence-based interventions in one-on-one, family, and group therapy.

Job Responsibilities

Conducts one-on-one, group, and family psychoeducational and process groups.

Develops treatment plans and attends treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis.

Assesses environment and patient's safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.

Identifies risk factors, screening criteria, and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).

Completes assessments, group notes, and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.

Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patients' discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge.

Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.

Qualifications Masters Degree in Social Work or Counseling form an accredited university required

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Required

Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date

Prior experience working with psychiatric mental health population, preferably in an inpatient setting.

Prefer case management, discharge planning, group leadership skills, age specific growth and development, crisis and behavior management, family therapy theory and practice

Worksite address

kansas city, MO, 64101, US

Who can apply

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