Mental Health Therapist

Tri-Cities Community Health•Pasco, WA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Mental Health Therapist offers assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions to meet client-driven goals, assisting with managing mental health symptoms and psychosocial issues. This autonomous role involves coordinating, negotiating, and managing services and resources for complex patients to facilitate stabilization and maintain optimal living conditions in the least restrictive setting. The therapist provides clinically based and empirically supported interventions and care coordination to facilitate stabilization and management of mentally ill clients, assisting in the identification of appropriate utilization of resources across the continuum of care. Unmet needs of clients and the community are evaluated and responded to by creating group opportunities, psycho-education, community outreach, and other duties as needed. The therapist works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff, both internal and external to the organization, and participates in quality improvement and evaluation processes. Direct service is delivered to clients in the form of individual, family, and group therapy, working with a variety of ages and presenting problems. Our Mission: We exist because people matter. Our community health center began as a modest sized medical clinic in Pasco, Washington in 1981, founded by a small group of women who saw the need to serve low-income community members. Tri-Cities Community Health has grown into a comprehensive non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving a diverse population in the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas.

Requirements

Master of Social Work required.
Completion of a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited MSW program required.
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker Associate license through the Washington State Department of Health required.
Current Driver’s license and auto insurance required.

Nice To Haves

One year of experience in a mental health setting preferred.
CPR/First Aid preferred.

Responsibilities

Directs, coordinates, and provides mental health therapy and coordination to clients in caseload.
Interacts, communicates, and intervenes with multidisciplinary team in a purposeful, goal-directed fashion.
Works proactively to maximize the effectiveness of resource utilization and client service delivery.
Maintains current knowledge of therapeutic modalities, therapeutic interventions, and agency guidelines for treatment, as specified by federal, state, and private insurance guidelines.
Attends all required safety training programs and can describe his or her responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety, and specific job related hazards.
Maintains Documentation of client care.
Implements interventions that lead to the client accomplishing goals established in treatment plan.
Coordinates the necessary resources to accomplish goals developed in treatment plan.
Gathers information from sources to enable the mental health therapist to monitor the treatment plan’s effectiveness.
Demonstrate an ability to collect essential information and appropriately interpret such information in order to activate necessary resources.
Be familiar with community resources for appropriate referrals.
Coordinate services with identified individuals on Treatment Plans who have a signed Release of Information. This may include family members, friends, school administrators, previous counselors, and primary care providers.
Ensures clients have access to crisis services via 24 hour on call services.
When hospitalized in an inpatient setting the clinician will coordinate with discharge planning so the client can successfully transition back to an outpatient provider.
Demonstrates respect and regard for the dignity of all patients, families, visitors and fellow employees to ensure a professional, responsible and courteous environment.
Promotes effective working relations and works effectively as part of a department/unit team inter and intra departmentally to facilitate the department's/unit's ability to meet its goals and objectives.
Ability to carry out all other duties as assigned.