Behavioral Health Therapist - Outpatient
About The Position
Northpointe is a Community Mental Health organization serving individuals with serious mental illness, emotional disturbance, substance abuse disorders, and intellectual/developmental disabilities across Iron, Dickinson, and Menominee counties in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Behavioral Health Therapist works in the Outpatient program based in Kingsford, Michigan, providing assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care management services to individuals and groups in a community-based treatment setting. The role includes conducting psychosocial assessments, providing therapy and case management, developing and updating individual plans of service, coordinating care and referrals, documenting services, and measuring clinical outcomes and individual satisfaction. The therapist also participates in clinical peer reviews, community education, staff training, and continuing professional development. The position supports Northpointe’s mission, vision, and values.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, or Counseling.
- Meet Michigan licensing requirements and hold one of the listed credentials: Limited Licensed Master’s Social Worker or Licensed Master’s Social Worker; Limited Licensed Psychologist or Licensed Psychologist; Limited Licensed Professional Counselor or Licensed Professional Counselor; or Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor.
- Obtain full clinical licensure, such as LMSW, LLP, or LPC, within six months of becoming eligible.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Actively support the agency’s mission, vision, and values.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with individuals with developmental/intellectual disabilities and/or mental illness is preferred.
- Full licensure may qualify the employee for a higher pay scale than the one shown in the posting.
Responsibilities
- Interview individuals to obtain clinical history for psychosocial assessments.
- Complete initial biopsychosocial assessments.
- Provide linkage, referrals, and ongoing case-management monitoring for individuals requiring long-term support.
- Provide services that may include individual, group, and family therapy; psychosocial assessments; mental-status examinations; diagnosis; and care management.
- Refer individuals for, link them to, or administer (for psychologists) psychological tests, personality inventories, and intelligence quotient tests, and integrate results into the individual plan of service.
- Plan and administer therapeutic treatment or interventions consistent with professional best practices and ethical conduct.
- Adapt the method and degree of therapy when indicated by individual reactions.
- Consult with the treatment team about plans of service and amend plans as recommended.
- Coordinate consultation, reporting, and referrals with agency staff, community organizations, and external health-care professionals as clinically appropriate.
- Measure individual clinical outcomes and satisfaction as directed.
- Maintain workload as established by policy.
- Participate in community education, staff training and in-service activities, and continuing professional development as directed.
- Ensure case records comply with Northpointe policies and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct clinical peer reviews of assessments resulting in denial of CMH services, including second-opinion assessments.
- Ensure a plan of service is developed, implemented, reviewed, and regularly updated for each individual, with the individual’s input.
- Provide contacts as needed and document them in the individual’s record within 24 hours.
- Assist individuals with financial-assistance applications, including SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, General Assistance, and Medical Assistance, when necessary.
- Make SSI level-of-care determinations when authorized through placement responsibility and negotiate arrangements with the Social Security Administration for processing SSI applications.
- Provide OBRA assessments upon request after completing training.
- Follow other job-related instructions and perform other duties requested by the supervisor.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
