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Exemption Status:

Exempt

Hiring Range:

$58,864.00 - $116,812.80

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Holidays - Every Other Holiday, Monday through Friday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday), Weekends - Every Other Weekend

Scheduled Hours:

evenings

Shift:

2 - Evening Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

24

Cost Center:

24050 - 0602 Emergency Mental Health

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Provide quality treatment to patients within Behavioral Health Services.

I.    Major Responsibilities: 
1.    Provide individual & group therapy to patients with varied mental health/ co-occurring disorders. 
2.    Responsibilities include completing initial assessments, counseling, group therapy, case presentations to the treatment team, treatment planning, and aftercare planning. 
3.    Clinicians are also responsible for identifying the need for medication evaluations and making referrals to the on-site providers. 
4.    Completes all documentation and paperwork specific to the department and in compliance with hospital requirements, Department of Mental Health (DMH), Bureau Substance Addiction Services (BSAS), The Joint Commission, and insurance providers.
5.    Responsible for managing caseload which may include consultations, collateral contact, and following up with the patient on missed appointments. 
6.    Work towards or maintain highest level of professional licensure and maintain credentialing necessary for specific role

Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:
1.    Complies with established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
2.    Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
3.    Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
4.    Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
5.    respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
6.    Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
7.    Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II.    Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education: 
Required:
1.    Graduation and training from an accredited graduate (Masters) program such as Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, etc. 
2.    License (LICSW, LMHC, LMFT) eligible.

Experience/Skills:
Required:
1.    Must have strong and effective communication, organization, and time management skills. 
2.    Must be able to work as part of a robust multi-disciplinary clinical team.
Preferred:
1.    Internship and/ or work experience within behavioral health including addiction services. 
2.    Strong diagnostic skills and abilities.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.
Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments.  The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III.    Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:
Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.
 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.