Kaiser Permanente-posted 12 days ago
Rancho Cordova, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

Provides mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis intervention services for adult and/or child members who present themselves from psychiatric evaluation with a broad range of mental health needs. Collaborates with treating physician, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual members treatment program.

  • Develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates clinical treatment programs for the diagnosis, treatment, and/or referral of Health Plan members with acute or chronic mental illness.
  • Participates in staff conferences to select, plan, and evaluate treatment programs.
  • Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and groups.
  • Instructs and counsels patients and their families regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens and adherence to prescribed medication regimens, within the scope of practice.
  • May administer specialized therapeutic procedures, as appropriate.
  • Provides appropriate support to members family.
  • May develop and conducts psychoeducational classes and groups.
  • May conduct psychological assessments, including test administration, interpretation, and recommendations.
  • Prepares intake summaries, treatment plans, and case summaries and maintains ongoing confidential records.
  • Charts members treatment and progress in accord with state and NCQA regulations and in keeping with accepted community standards.
  • May be required to participate in the department on-call rotation.
  • Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating patients for psychotropic medications, within the scope of practice.
  • Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members treatment.
  • May develop, implements, and evaluates behavioral medicine and health psychology programs in a variety of settings, including primary care.
  • Provides consultation to other care providers and health educators on matters relating to mental health, health psychology and behavioral medicine.
  • Provides clinical supervision to psychology doctoral interns, psychology postdoctoral residents, and other mental health trainees/fellows as necessary.
  • May supervise Post Masters Fellows, Associate Clinical Social Workers, Associate Marriage Family Therapists or Associate Professional Clinical Counselors as needed if supervision course is completed.
  • May provide appropriate support to members family, including explanation of treatment, instructions in how to support treatment and interventions to increase acceptance of and adherence to treatment, at members request.
  • Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources, as appropriate.
  • Participates in departmental program development, implementation and evaluation.
  • Reports safety concerns to mandated reporting agencies
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