EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree - Required
• Master’s Degree Social Work, Education, Counseling or Marriage Family Therapy - Preferred

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous experience in a hospital, health organization or mental health agency setting - Required

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Comfortable interacting with participants in the field (i.e. homes, hospitals, neighborhood settings), as well as in office-based settings. (Required proficiency)

• Provide appropriate level of crisis intervention services and refer for additional level of care when appropriate.
• Facilitating supportive, insight-oriented psychotherapeutic intervention, providing crisis intervention to high acuity patients, engaging with, and providing support to families, and engaging them in recovery.
• Identify and collaborate with multidisciplinary team to develop case summaries, while documenting all interventions within the required regulatory timeframe.
• Under the clinical supervision of a licensed and credentialed mental health practitioner, provides level of care and treatment planning recommendations.
• Shares information regarding patient family situation with staff from other agencies and programs as appropriate in accordance with applicable confidentiality guidelines and relevant law.
• Organizes workload and sets priorities based on patient care needs.