Behavioral Health Therapist
About The Position
This position supports the Organization in the following manner: The behavioral health therapist provides comprehensive behavioral health treatment to Heart of Ohio Family Health’s patients by conducting psychosocial assessments and screeners, providing psychotherapy, and crisis intervention services. Position: Full time Reports to: Behavioral Health Manager Supervises: No Dress Requirement: Business Casual Work Schedule: Monday through Friday during standard business hours Times are subject to change due to business necessity Exempt þ This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Facility Environment: Heart of Ohio Family Health operates in multiple locations, in Columbus, OH area. All facilities have a medical office environment with front-desk reception area, separate patient examination rooms, nursing stations, pharmacy stock room, business offices, hallways and private toilet facilities. All facilities are ADA compliant. This position’s primary work area is the clinical portion of the facility; ie, patient examination rooms, hallways, and other clinically assigned areas. The clinical area is: kept at a normal working temperature sanitized daily maintains standard environment furniture with adjustable chairs maintains standard office equipment; ie, computer, copier, fax machine, etc. at a normal working height
Requirements
- Must be Social Work Licensed in the State of Ohio (LSW/LISW)
- Required education: Bachelor’s degree in appropriate field
- EMR/EHR experience required
- Competency in working sensitively and respectfully with people of various cultures and social status
- Skills to expertly deliver exceptional health care to the public
Nice To Haves
- Preferred experience: Counseling or internship in mental health counseling.
- Master’s degree strongly preferred
- Experience with integrated behavioral health preferred.
- Multi-lingual (Spanish or Haitian Creole) and/or experience in working with interpreters/diverse patient populations is preferred.
- Ability to successfully guide others to create an efficient, harmonious work environment
- Knowledge of federal, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to Social Work Licenses
Responsibilities
- Conduct psychosocial assessments and behavioral health screeners.
- Provides behavioral health counseling to patients with mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders.
- Assist with initiating appropriate referrals for patients with substance use disorders who need a higher level of care.
- Completes screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment.
- Assist other providers as needed by administering the highest quality patient care in a sensitive and respectful manner
- Accurately documentation in appropriate medical record
- Assist with triaging patients referred to behavioral health services or in need of crisis intervention services.
- Perform the tasks of an LSW/LISW
- Follows all policies, procedures and work rules
- If licensure includes -S, may be required to signs off on or support non-independent licensed social workers providing counseling services.
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Job Type
Full-time
