Senior Behavioral Health Therapist, Part Time, Day Shift, Behavioral Health

Adventist HealthCare • Rockville, MD

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About The Position

Adventist HealthCare seeks an experienced Senior Behavioral Health Therapist to provide therapeutic care to clients and their families in the Behavioral Health department. The therapist conducts comprehensive psychosocial assessments; provides individual, group, and family therapies; participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning; and coordinates aftercare and supportive services to support successful discharge planning. The role also includes crisis intervention, assessment and intervention in suspected or disclosed abuse or neglect cases, documentation, and promoting positive patient-family-community relations.

The Senior Behavioral Health Therapist supervises interns in providing psychotherapeutic treatment and consulting with other professionals, monitors patients’ treatment progress and formally reviews treatment plans and goals, and oversees interns’ documentation and chart maintenance in accordance with state DHMH requirements.

This is a part-time position scheduled for 20 hours per week on Saturday and Sunday, with 10-hour day shifts. The position is non-exempt and eligible for a shift differential. The listed pay range is $33.00–$52.00.

Requirements

• Full licensure, such as LCSW-C, LCPC, or equivalent.
• Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality therapeutic care appropriate to clients’ age, diagnoses, developmental state, and mental status.
• Initiate and conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
• Provide individual, group, and family therapies to clients and their families.
• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment teams and develop strategies and interventions to promote therapeutic outcomes.
• Support clients’ development of self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-actualization through traditional and adjunctive therapeutic services.
• Document services and disseminate information and reports to community referral sources and agencies.
• Coordinate aftercare and supportive services with the interdisciplinary team, referral sources, and community resources to support successful discharge planning.
• Use knowledge and skills to diffuse psychotic and behavioral crises and support client, unit, and staff safety and stability.
• Assess and intervene in suspected or disclosed child or adult neglect and abuse cases.
• Promote positive patient-family-community relations.
• Supervise interns’ psychotherapeutic treatment of patients and families, including individual, parent collateral, family, couples, and group therapy.
• Monitor patients’ treatment progress and formally review treatment plans and goals regularly.
• Supervise interns’ consultations with other professionals to support coordinated and comprehensive service delivery.
• Supervise interns’ documentation and complete, timely, legible chart maintenance, including forms, progress notes, treatment plans, and goals required by state DHMH.

Benefits

• Work-life balance through nonrotating shifts
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Free employee parking
• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents effective on date of hire
• Employer-paid short- and long-term disability
• Basic life insurance and AD&D
• Paid time off
• Employer retirement contribution and match after one year of eligible employment, with a three-year vesting period
• Voluntary flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary legal plans
• Voluntary life, pet, auto, home, long-term care, and critical illness and accident insurance
• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program support

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed