Senior School Therapist (LCSW/LCPC), Weekdays, The Ridge School

Adventist HealthCare•Rockville, MD

1d•$63,511 - $92,091

About The Position

The Ridge School, Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire an experienced Senior Behavioral Health Therapist who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing. As a Senior Behavioral Health Therapist you will: • Completes initial intake assessments, which include evaluating the emergent nature of a referral, explaining the nature of services to referral sources, and identifying what types of services are needed • Provides diagnostic evaluations of children with suspected psychological problems or developmental delays. Assesses family functioning, identifying the quality of parent-child relationships and the family's dynamics. Related duties include preparing written evaluations, obtaining relevant information from school settings, making home and school visits as appropriate, interpreting the results for parents and other professionals working with a client, developing home programs, treatment plans, and educational plans • Provides psychotherapeutic treatment to children and their families including individual play therapy, parent collateral work, family therapy, couples therapy and group therapy. Monitors progress of children/families in treatment and formally reviews treatment plan and goals every three months. Consults with other professionals working with the client both at the Lourie Center and with outside of the agencies, to assure coordinated and comprehensive service delivery • Consults to professionals in the community including pediatricians, school administrators, child welfare/DHHS case workers regarding the appropriateness of referrals and the progress in therapy and ongoing therapeutic needs of individual clients at our Center. Provides recommendations for treatment and school placement and in support of this responsibility, participates in school meetings e.g. IEP’s and multidisciplinary meetings at Lourie Center • Participates in scheduled interdisciplinary meetings to formulate a comprehensive diagnosis and implement coordinated treatment planning for Lourie Center clients, as well as to review the progress made in treatment and to develop new treatment strategies for children at Lourie Center. Participates in case conferences, disposition meetings and staff meetings, as needed • Provides case management services for children manifesting a psychological disorder as the primary diagnosis. Screens for other disorders or delays in development and makes appropriate referrals for services • Performs basic administrative tasks related to work assignments that meet COMAR requirements for OMHC including the timely preparation of written reports, billing forms, work schedules, and progress notes to document treatment sessions • Maintains medical records in a complete, timely and legible form, including parent information forms, consent forms, data collection forms, progress notes, and treatment plans and goals • Interprets Lourie Center's function and philosophy through contacts with the community in addition to actively recruiting referrals for Lourie Center • Continues professional education in Social Work by attending formal continuing education programs, conferences, advanced training, and by regular consultation with health care providers. Receives weekly clinical supervision • Accesses Protected Health Information on a routine basis. Employee must comply with all privacy standards of the Lourie Center that include HIPAA, COMAR and others – state and federal regulations • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Completed graduate level education, training and supervision
Experience with a wide variety of clinical treatment modalities is required in addition to supervised experience providing psychotherapeutic services to children under 12 years of age and their families. It is understood that the clinician has had progressively responsible clinical experiences. Demonstrated expertise in the use of psycho-social assessment and treatment for children under 12 years of age is required.
Knowledge of psychological disorders from infancy through adulthood is essential.
Requires a LCSW-C or LCPC Clinical License or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Completes initial intake assessments, which include evaluating the emergent nature of a referral, explaining the nature of services to referral sources, and identifying what types of services are needed
Provides diagnostic evaluations of children with suspected psychological problems or developmental delays. Assesses family functioning, identifying the quality of parent-child relationships and the family's dynamics. Related duties include preparing written evaluations, obtaining relevant information from school settings, making home and school visits as appropriate, interpreting the results for parents and other professionals working with a client, developing home programs, treatment plans, and educational plans
Provides psychotherapeutic treatment to children and their families including individual play therapy, parent collateral work, family therapy, couples therapy and group therapy. Monitors progress of children/families in treatment and formally reviews treatment plan and goals every three months. Consults with other professionals working with the client both at the Lourie Center and with outside of the agencies, to assure coordinated and comprehensive service delivery
Consults to professionals in the community including pediatricians, school administrators, child welfare/DHHS case workers regarding the appropriateness of referrals and the progress in therapy and ongoing therapeutic needs of individual clients at our Center. Provides recommendations for treatment and school placement and in support of this responsibility, participates in school meetings e.g. IEP’s and multidisciplinary meetings at Lourie Center
Participates in scheduled interdisciplinary meetings to formulate a comprehensive diagnosis and implement coordinated treatment planning for Lourie Center clients, as well as to review the progress made in treatment and to develop new treatment strategies for children at Lourie Center. Participates in case conferences, disposition meetings and staff meetings, as needed
Provides case management services for children manifesting a psychological disorder as the primary diagnosis. Screens for other disorders or delays in development and makes appropriate referrals for services
Performs basic administrative tasks related to work assignments that meet COMAR requirements for OMHC including the timely preparation of written reports, billing forms, work schedules, and progress notes to document treatment sessions
Maintains medical records in a complete, timely and legible form, including parent information forms, consent forms, data collection forms, progress notes, and treatment plans and goals
Interprets Lourie Center's function and philosophy through contacts with the community in addition to actively recruiting referrals for Lourie Center
Continues professional education in Social Work by attending formal continuing education programs, conferences, advanced training, and by regular consultation with health care providers. Receives weekly clinical supervision
Accesses Protected Health Information on a routine basis. Employee must comply with all privacy standards of the Lourie Center that include HIPAA, COMAR and others – state and federal regulations
Other duties as assigned

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 their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire
Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)
Paid Time Off
Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period
Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance
Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support