Social Worker or Mental Health Counselor LCSWLMHC

This is a remote position.

Key Responsibilities

1. Utilizes various professional skills and activities under supervision which serve the treatment needs of the client
   
2. Gathers sufficient information for each client to make a diagnostic assessment necessary to determine assignment priorities and treatment plan or referral to the treatment resources in the community
   
3. Implements appropriate crisis services when needed to prevent decomposition and moves client toward an appropriate treatment plan and enhances adaptive functioning
   
4. Shares information about the Agency and its services in order to help clients and other interested parties participate in treatment decisions set appropriate goals and better understand the functions of the center
   
5. Helps clients to become effective consumers of mental health and substance abuse services through information sharing empowerment and transcendence of the stigma associated with those services
   
6. Maintains client stability through a planned ongoing treatment relationship or assesses and helps implement changes in client functioning when indicated
   
7. Regularly assesses with supervisor the progress of the clients treatment and is open to recommendations for improvement
   
8. Assists clients in developing appropriate expectations from treatment
   
9. Assists the client in understanding the need for cooperation with fee and insurance responsibilities by helping the client understand and resolve psychological and financial obstacles to payment
   
10. Strengthens the ability of the client to understand and utilize therapy and find resources after treatment has ended through proper discharge planning and termination process
    
11. Establishes and maintains appropriate and timely clinical case records including but not limited to treatment plans progress notes and treatment plan reviews documenting appropriate therapeutic intervention with each client to the Agency funding licensing and billing authorities
    
12. Exchanging information with other agencies that benefits the client or insures compliance with regulations and coordination of services
    
13. Facilitate sharing of data with the individuals to whom it applies to facilitate partnered decisionmaking and to keep clients informed of progress
    
14. Complete QI Training during onboarding and participate in QI refresher training as needed
    
15. Ability to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their strengths views and experiences
    

General Responsibilities

1. Responsible for attending departmental quality improvement or other meetings both in PsychiaTreat and outside the facility as directed by the PsychiaTreat executive staff
   
2. Responsible for participating in general clinical performance improvement activities including regular peer review of your colleagues charts.
   
3. Responsible for participating in quality improvement activities connected with PsychiaTreat.