Therapist
Company: Discovery Behavioral Health
Location: El Monte
Posted on: June 14, 2022
Job Description:
Job Description
Our Primary Therapists carry a caseload and provide clinical
treatment in the form of individual, family and group counseling.
As a member of the treatment team, you will meet weekly in a
collaborative fashion with the rest of the team to discuss
treatment plans.
- The Primary Therapist attends all treatment planning meetings,
all treatment review and goals setting groups, in-service
training's, and general staff meetings and clinical retreats
- Interfacing with insurance companies, providing appropriate
clinical information to obtain initial certification and continuing
stay certification as required
- On-call responsibility with this position where the clinician
is on call every 3 or 4 weeks to the facility to support with any
HLOC transfers, AWOL, suicidal ideation and self-harm issues that
may occur in the evenings and on weekends.
- Completing the Biopsychosocial assessment within 72 hours -of
admission
- Meeting with clients within twenty-four hours of admission to
establish therapeutic rapport
- Meeting with each client in individual sessions as clinically
indicated, providing psychotherapeutic interventions to thoroughly
educate each client to the CTP and its intent, target dates, and
revisions
- Identifying weekly treatment goals and writing contracts
specific to individual client needs
- Writing and facilitating the Discharge Summary
- Individual psychotherapy sessions, 2 times weekly for each
client
- Conjoint family psychotherapy sessions at least once per
week
- Facilitating Multifamily and Alumni groups
- Creating a written plan for continuing care (DC plan) and
discharge summary
- The Lead Therapist "oversees" the daily treatment experience of
each of their clientsThis is a -full-time -salaried position that
will work either Tues-Sat or Sun-Thur. -ARC has three different
facilities all within a few blocks of each other. Must be able to
float between facilities if needed. -
Qualifications
- Clinicians must be licensed or registered in the state in which
they are applying
- Must be licensed as LMFT or LCSW
- The Lead Therapist must have at least one year in acute care or
residential treatment or closely related experience.
- Must understand the therapeutic process, understand
confidentiality laws, and have strong knowledge of professional
ethics
- Must be able to demonstrate leadership abilities, and be able
to communicate with persons from all educational and cultural
backgrounds
- Must demonstrate tact, initiative, resourcefulness, a
professional manner, enthusiasm, and a non-judgmental attitude
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Additional Information
We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free
workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. -All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin.For more information about our company benefits, please
visit us at discoverybehavioralhealth.com/careers/ -PandoLogic.
Keywords: Addiction Counselor, Location: El Monte, CA - 91735 , PL:
536314215
Keywords: Discovery Behavioral Health, El Monte , Therapist, Healthcare , El Monte, California
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