Senior Behavioral Health Therapist, Part Time, Day Shift, Behavioral Health
About The Position
Adventist HealthCare seeks an experienced Senior Behavioral Health Therapist to provide therapeutic care that meets clients’ age, diagnoses, developmental state, and mental status needs. The role includes comprehensive psychosocial assessment; individual, group, and family therapy; participation in interdisciplinary treatment planning; crisis de-escalation; and coordination of aftercare and discharge services. The therapist documents care and communicates with community referral sources and agencies, supports positive patient-family-community relations, and assesses and intervenes in suspected or disclosed child or adult neglect or abuse. The Senior Behavioral Health Therapist also supervises interns’ psychotherapy, treatment planning, consultation, monitoring of patient progress, and documentation. The position is part-time, scheduled for 20 hours per week on Saturday and Sunday in 10-hour day shifts, and is eligible for a shift differential.
Requirements
- Full licensure, such as LCSW-C, LCPC, or equivalent.
- Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Responsibilities
- Provide therapeutic care appropriate to clients’ age, diagnoses, developmental state, and mental status.
- Initiate and implement 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.
- Help clients develop 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.
- De-escalate psychotic and behavioral crises to protect client, unit, and staff safety and stability.
- Assess and intervene in cases of suspected or disclosed child or adult neglect or abuse.
- Promote positive patient-family-community relations.
- Supervise interns’ psychotherapeutic treatment of patients and families, including individual therapy, parent collateral work, family therapy, couples therapy, and group therapy.
- Monitor patients’ progress in treatment and regularly review treatment plans and goals.
- Supervise interns’ consultation with other professionals to support coordinated, comprehensive service delivery.
- Supervise interns’ documentation and maintenance of complete, timely, legible charts, 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 the date of hire
- Employer-paid short- and long-term disability
- Basic life insurance and AD&D
- Short-term disability buy-up option
- Paid time off
- Employer retirement contribution and match after one year of eligible employment, with a three-year vesting period
- Voluntary benefits including flexible spending accounts, legal plans, 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
