Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Provides effective clinical assessment of served populations
- Formulates evidence-based clinical treatment plan in collaboration with patient
- Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis
- Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing clinical evident therapeutic models and theories according to patient needs as stated in the treatment plan
- Effectively collaborates with the Family Medicine treatment team in effort to provide integrated healthcare
- Provides patient centered safety planning and safety resources appropriate for populations
- Evaluates patient’s treatment for discharge planning
- Assures that program standards and objectives are met
- Plans and develops creative and relevant therapeutic interventions according to patient’s abilities and needs
- Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation
- Effectively collaborates with community resources to ensure wholistic care and assess for needed referral needs of patient.
- Tracks Clinical Outcomes
Effectively demonstrates the application of adult and child/adolescent specific competencies
- Adheres to professional code of ethics
Supervision and Consultation:
- Seeks clinical supervision and consultation as needed
- Accepts and employs suggestions for improvement
- Actively works to enhance clinical skills
Clinical Record Keeping:
- Documents in a timely fashion per AltaPointe/Accordia Health policy
- Documents appropriate, complete, and clinically comprehensive mental health assessments
- Documents measurable and specific goals in the treatment plan
- Documents in a clear and concise manner, patient problems, treatment goals addressed, services, and techniques used
- Documents case disposition, case closings, follow-up and referrals
- Documents legibly and clinically
Case Load Management:
- Effectively manages caseload for quality, standards, and identifying patient needs
- Meets AltaPointe/Accordia Health clinical productivity standards
- Understands EAP, Managed Care, and insurance benefits in providing services and management of authorized services.
Courteous and respectful attitudes towards patients, visitors and co-workers
- Treats consumers with care, dignity and compassion
- Respects patient privacy (HIPAA) and confidentiality
- Is pleasant and cooperative with others
- Assists visitors and patients as needed
- Personal values don’t inhibit ability to relate and care for others
- Is sensitive to the patient needs, treatment expectations, and individual differences
- Is empathic and has positive regard with patient and families
Administrative and Other Related Duties as Assigned:
- Actively participates in Performance Improvement activities
- Actively participates in AltaPointe/Accordia Health committees as required
- Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner
- Accesses appropriate community resources according to patients needs
- Follows AltaPointe/Accordia Health policies and procedures
- Maintains current license and requirements for renewals (i.e. CEU’s), and attends required in-services and workshops
Qualifications
Master’s degree in mental health discipline. Licensure preferred, or eligible for licensure process for specific discipline. Knowledge in adult, child and adolescent specialties as outlined below:
- Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in child, adolescent and adult populations
- Basic knowledge of substance-related and addictive disorders
- Knowledge of integrated-care practices within primary-care setting
- Basic knowledge of senior adult mental health symptomology and disorders
- Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention, and evidence-based interventions
- Knowledge of and implementation of evidence-based trauma informed care and therapeutic interventions appropriate for populations served
- Knowledge of community resources as applied to the child/adolescent and adult populations
- Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to adult and child/adolescent populations
- Knowledge of growth and development as related to all intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical aspects of the patient’s development
- Knowledge of developmental and intellectual disabilities child/adolescent population
- Knowledge of family dynamic and parenting skills
- Knowledge of symptomology and treatment of physical/sexual/emotional abuse and neglect
- Knowledge of cultural diversity
- Knowledge of private insurance for mental health services
- Knowledge of FQHC, CCBHC, and Joint Commission standards
