Assessment Clinician FT Weekdays

Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital•Tacoma, WA

4h•$38 - $74•Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a full time Assessment Clinician Masters Level to join our Inpatient team. This is a Monday – Friday, 8 am – 4:30 pm position. Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital is a 120-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital located in Tacoma, Washington. We are Department of Health and Joint Commission accredited. We are an acute care psychiatric hospital providing care to both voluntary and involuntary patients. At Wellfound, our approach to treatment emphasizes whole-person centered care that supports wellness and recovery. We respect and are inclusive of everyone’s unique values, strengths, and beliefs. We believe in a team approach to care which includes our amazing providers, nurses, mental health technicians and therapy team members.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Behavioral Science field or Social Work
Current Washington state license as: Licensed as Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), or Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), or Licensed Advanced Social Worker (LASW), or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Workers (LICSAW), or Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHCA) or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFTA)
Basic Life Support through American Heart Association or American Red Cross required to start
Two (2) years experience in psychiatric/mental health setting

Nice To Haves

Performs work at an advanced, specialized, and independent level
Provides intensive casework with individual, family and marital therapy
Skilled in de-escalation and brief solution -focused therapy
Provides group therapy and diagnostic evaluations and interprets complex psychosocial factors to a variety of psychiatric and addition patients
Relates accepted theories of psychiatry/psychology to practice situations
Requires instruction only in highly complex, new or specialized methods or procedures

Responsibilities

Independently conduct psychosocial assessment, develop updates and detailed reassessment of the patient needs
Assess social history and identify high-social risk issues that may impact disposition planning
Coordinate with family, support persons and community providers to make a full and complete assessment of patient’s functioning, care needs and discharge supports
Provide patient and family education, support and advocacy
Participate as a member of the treatment team in developing interdisciplinary master treatment plan goals for treatment and guide subsequent intervention
Implement planned interventions aimed at meeting specified goals in the treatment plan and offered through a variety of modalities (group, individual, couple, family, etc.)
Make level of care recommendations and assist care coordinators in developing comprehensive disposition plans to the next level of care
Provide therapeutic activities that focus upon the development and maintenance of adaptive skills that will improve the patient’s functioning
Report to work at scheduled time and work the entirety of the scheduled shift