Posted in Other about 7 hours ago.
Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Salary: $70,000.00 USD Annually - $80,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Mental Health Professional/ Therapist
Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Professional Counseling or related field preferred, and one of the following LCP, LCPC, LMSW, LCSW, or LCSW-C.
3 years post-masters clinical experience in a mental health setting.
This job will have the following responsibilities:
- Conduct screening interviews and assessments using personal interviews, referral information, medical history, collateral contact and additional methods as needed.
- Recommend treatment plans to Physicians and/or other mental health professionals that address medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial needs/problems and specify modalities of treatment and support, to address specific goals. Modify the plan as necessary to reflect the needs of the client.
- Provide ongoing counseling to individuals, groups, or families as reflected in the treatment plan.
- Identifies gaps in service, barriers to treatment and the acquisition of community resources.
- Advocates for the reduction of such barriers and for the development of needed services.
- Build strong relationships with patients, families, co-workers and surrounding community. Provide education to families and other identified natural supports.
- Provide case management services as required for a group of assigned persons which includes coordinating and monitoring the Individual Treatment Plan for the team. Primary responsibility for a group of 10-12 persons will be assigned.
- Attain all benefits a person qualifies for under Local, State, and Federal law.
- Teach money management skills such as budgeting and banking. - Provide crisis intervention and rapid support services to circumvent hospitalization.
- Schedules medical treatments, dental treatments, and doctors visits as required.
- Visit the person when admitted to inpatient somatic and psychiatric treatment as well as plan for discharge at the beginning of admission.
- Meet all needs of the person starting with housing, food, and clothing before any other intervention occurs. Housing must be safe and affordable.
- Assist persons to carry out daily living skills including person hygiene, nutritional needs, shopping, and food preparation as well as house cleaning and laundry. Teach transportation skills.
- Develop and document psychosocial database.
- Document client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to COMAR and agency related requirements.
- Provide consultation and educational services to community agencies as needed. Coordinate with outside agencies to wrap services around the person.
- Participate in interdisciplinary conferences with appropriate medical, nursing, social work, and administrative staff.
- Provide ongoing assessment of client's issues and their response to treatment.
- Provide symptom education and illness management as prescribed by evidenced based practices or established guidelines.
- Provide group as well as family and individual therapy/treatment.
- Utilize evidenced based practices for co-occurring disorders when performing group substance abuse treatment and individual treatment.
- Be available at all times for the persons on the team as well as the persons being treated.
- Provide case management for an assigned group of clients including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team; assume responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall treatment goals and plans in conjunction with the ITP; provide individual supportive counseling; assist in symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as client's needs change. Educate and support client's families, and advocate for client rights and preferences.
- Conduct comprehensive assessment of all domains of a person's life.
- Provide on call crisis intervention when assigned covering nighttime and weekend hours.
- Become an expert of the ACT philosophy and follow and maintain high fidelity to the ACT Model of Care.
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