Mental Health Therapist - LCSW Fulltime Days in Birmingham, AL
Job title: Mental Health Therapist - LCSW Fulltime Days in Birmingham, AL at Baptist Health
Company: Baptist Health
Job description: Position Summary:Position Summary
Works with patients to promote optimum mental and emotional health. Responsibilities:Essential Functions
- Develops comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressionsresponsive to age-appropriate patients/family’s needs
- Provides differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
- Diagnoses biopsychosocial functioning, disability, and impairment for the age-appropriate patients/families.
- Develops treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven and outcomes-focused with the
- Develops an effective working relationship with patients/families to engage, collaborate, advocate, and problem-solve in order to
- Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions, included but are not limited to crisis
- Initiates Baker Act.
- Facilitates Marchman Act when appropriate.
- Facilitates patient’s psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to the next level of care.
- Provides mental health education, information, consultation, and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the
- Demonstratesinitiative and leadership in developing mental health servicesthatrespond to patient care demands.
- Identifies practice based on continuous quality improvement.
- Maintains an up-to-date, accurate, and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients’ medical chart, which does not
- Meets department/hospital expectations of growth goalsset forth by coaching plans.
- Performsindependently and provides clinical practice in a health care setting.
- Supervises and participatesin teaching within the department, hospital, and community.
- When appropriate forthe clinicalsetting, hassubspecialty credentialing (i.e.,sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT).
- Coordinates care and related functions appropriate forthe patient population.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
- Maintains and enhances knowledge of human growth and development ofthe neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
- Pursues opportunitiesfor obtaining continuing education asset by department policy.
- Participatesin strengthening the community through local,regional,state, or national activities Qualifications:
- Maintains Alabama state licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
- Handle with Care (HWC) Certification required for Behavioral Health Unit.