Mental Health Counselor - LMFT, AMFT, LCSW, ACSW

at  Wellpath

Compensation Range: $42.25 - $52.5 / hour

You Matter:

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

NOW IS YOUR MOMENT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THE UNDERSERVED.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society’s most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.
Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.
We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.
How you make a difference:
The Mental Health Professional provides diagnostic evaluations and non-medical therapy counseling services to persons served under the direction of the RMHD, HSA, PM, or higher licensed medical professional. The job requires compliance with applicable LCSW and MFT standards, as well as state and federal regulations. The Mental Health Professional must have a strong understanding of applied psychotherapy techniques and be able to apply them effectively to optimize therapeutic outcomes for persons served.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducts assessments and evaluations of patients referred by healthcare staff and security, provides appropriate treatment plans, and recommends hospitalization for those who need it.
• Provides suicide intervention and manages high-risk patients, evaluates patients’ medication history, recommends medication evaluations when necessary, and manages medications.
• Provides consultation to security and healthcare staff, and provides linkage and discharge planning services when necessary.
• Responds to psychiatric emergencies and provides clinical supervision for patients on his/her caseload.
• Participates in treatment programming and planning, attends required meetings, provides staff training, and ensures compliance with safety and mental health policies and procedures.

Qualifications & Requirements:

Education

• High school and specialized training for licensing/certification(s)

Experience

• Three (3) years of experience providing treatment to adults with various mental health disabilities
• Experience providing case management services for a population; discharge planning experience with a persons served population; demonstrated ability in providing clinical mental health services to an adult population with serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders of serious mental illness and chemical dependency; and working with a diverse multi-disciplinary team and persons served population
• Knowledge of dual diagnosis treatment practices including non-pharmacological symptom management techniques.
• Experience with Crisis/Risk Management
• Advanced knowledge of assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, discharge planning and excellent documentation skills.

Licenses/Certifications

• Current (and must maintain) LMFT or LCSW or Psychologist or LPC or LMHC license in state of practice
• Current (and must maintain) lifesaving BLS certification through AHA

Additional Details : *Active CA License or Associate License Required: LMFT; AMFT, LCSW, ACSW
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer:
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.
Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description

• Conducts assessments and evaluations of patients referred by healthcare staff and security, provides appropriate treatment plans, and recommends hospitalization for those who need it.
• Provides suicide intervention and manages high-risk patients, evaluates patients’ medication history, recommends medication evaluations when necessary, and manages medications.
• Provides consultation to security and healthcare staff, and provides linkage and discharge planning services when necessary.
• Responds to psychiatric emergencies and provides clinical supervision for patients on his/her caseload.
• Participates in treatment programming and planning, attends required meetings, provides staff training, and ensures compliance with safety and mental health policies and procedures