Behavioral Health Therapist - Addiction Recovery Center

Carle Foundation Hospital • Peoria, IL

127d • $26 - $43

About The Position

To provide assistance to the multidisciplinary team in the assessment, treatment planning, counseling, and discharge planning for patients and their families.

Requirements

• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) within 2 years - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Licensed Social Worker (LSW) within 2 years - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor (CADC) within 2 years - Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA)
• Master's Degree: Counseling; Psychology; Social Work; related field
• Behavioral health experience
• Advanced reading, writing and oral skills
• Ability to respond appropriately to customer/co-worker
• Interaction with a wide variety of people
• Maintain confidential information
• Ability to communicate only the facts to recipients or to decline to reveal information
• Ability to project a professional, friendly, helpful demeanor
• Basic computer knowledge: Uses word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail application, and web browser
• Comfortable within a Windows OS and learning new applications

Responsibilities

• Provides individual, group, and family counseling to assist patients/families in achieving treatment goals
• Provides individual counseling to patients as stipulated on the treatment plan
• Facilitates regularly scheduled group therapy/week
• Assures that families are involved in the treatment process
• Provides family counseling as stipulated on the treatment plan
• Group facilitation reflects expertise in group dynamics
• Cognitive behavior therapy and other brief therapies are utilized whenever appropriate
• Documentation is timely, succinct, legible, and uses the correct charting format
• During times of low census (less than 4), will assist with assessments, admissions, and facilitating other groups at the direction of the Program Manager
• When assisting as a team member to control an aggressive or violent patient, CPI methods will be used
• Completes ongoing assessments of patients
• Documentation is timely, legible and succinct and includes impression and recommendation
• Family and significant others are utilized whenever possible in the completion of ongoing assessment of the patient progress
• Patient is ongoingly assessed during informal sessions as well as during formal individual and family sessions
• Documentation of ongoing assessments reflects progress towards goals outlined in the treatment plan
• Facilitates various groups and assigned with attention to achievement of the goal or process associated with each group
• Accurately documents activities according to the policies and procedures
• Is knowledgeable of and capable of providing emergency assistance in regard to inappropriate acting out behavior by any patient
• Always attempts to utilize verbal redirection, interaction of other staff, utilization of quiet room, etc. before instituting emergency measures such as safety codes, restraints, etc.
• Is knowledgeable and capable of working with patients who present a dual problem, Mental Illness/Substance Abuse co-occurring disorders
• Is able to perform all duties of a counselor as needed and assigned
• Collaborates with other members of the treatment team as well as community providers in the development and implementation of an individualized treatment plan and provides referrals and discharge planning
• Participates actively in regularly scheduled staffing meetings as well as community, return to work, discharge, and employer staffing
• Participation reflects knowledge of the patient's strengths, illness, support systems, and history
• Document identified problems, discipline specific interventions, discharge plan, goals met, etc. on the treatment plan
• Proactively meets with other members of the treatment team on a daily basis to coordinate care and discharge planning specifically; psychiatrist, Unit Counselors, other community providers, patients and family members
• Begins discharge planning process as soon as after admission as is clinically appropriate and that plan is in place prior to discharge
• Keeps patient/family informed of plans as they progress (when clinically appropriate)
• Uses creativity and patient advocacy in the planning and implementation of the discharge plan
• Facilitates transition between levels of care within Service Line continuum of care
• Provides necessary information to providers at next level of care

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Compensation range for this position is $26.34 per hour - $43.99 per hour

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
• Education Level: Master's degree