Mental Health Therapist

Tri-Cities Community Health•Pasco, WA

85d•Onsite

About The Position

Tri-Cities Community Health (TCCH) is seeking a compassionate and dedicated Mental Health Therapist with a passion for helping others, particularly adolescents. This role involves providing assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions to help clients manage mental health symptoms and psychosocial issues. The therapist will coordinate services, negotiate resources, and manage the care of complex patients to facilitate stabilization and optimal living conditions. Responsibilities include delivering direct services through individual, family, and group therapy, working collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff, and participating in quality improvement processes. The position requires maintaining current knowledge of therapeutic modalities and agency guidelines, documenting client care, and ensuring clients have access to crisis services. The therapist will also coordinate with inpatient settings for successful transitions back to outpatient care and demonstrate respect for all individuals.

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

Offers assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions to meet client driven goals which assist with managing mental health symptoms and psychosocial issues.
Coordinates, negotiates, procures services and resources for, and manages the care of complex patients to facilitate stabilization and maintaining the most optimum living conditions for the client in the least restrictive setting.
Provides clinically based and empirically supported therapeutic interventions and care coordination to facilitate the stabilization and management of mentally ill clients and assists in the identification of appropriate utilization of resources across the continuum of care.
Evaluates and responds appropriately to unmet needs of clients and the community by creating group opportunities, psychoeducation, community outreach and other duties as needed.
Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff internal and external to the organization.
Participates in quality improvement and evaluation processes related to the overall management of clients care in the community mental health setting.
Delivers direct service to clients in the form of individual, family, and group therapy.
Works with a variety of ages and presenting problems.
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.