Mental Health Therapist Job at CommonSpirit Health, Lexington, KY

  • CommonSpirit Health
  • Lexington, KY

Job Description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Mental Health Therapist you will be responsible for providing direct clinical services to child adolescent adult and/or geriatric patients and families to address interpersonal and family systems issues that cause emotional distress as well as to provide discharge planning. These include: group therapy; family therapy; individual therapy; if certified sexual offender therapy; if credentialed play therapy or EMDR; psycho education discharge planning and coordinating with community government and mental health agencies to obtain aftercare services necessary to reduce and prevent relapse.

-Assumes personal responsibility for maintaining professional development and ensuring all required CEUs are completed and license is action.

-Utilizes knowledge of professional social work in collecting and reviewing data collected from patients their families outside sources such as school & outpatient therapist to assess the patients psychological social and discharge needs.

-Records and communicates data to physician and interdisciplinary treatment collaboration with physician and interdisciplinary treatment team prioritizes patients needs and develops plan of care which is developmental and age specific individualized with specific measurable goals and interventions to address the identified rational for prioritization and /or deferment of problems.

-Demonstrates proficiency and skill in providing therapeutic interventions such as family individual and group therapy.

-Maintains accurate documents of interventions therapies and patient and/or family members according to their identified need and interdisciplinary plan of with the patient family physician treatment team and other health care providers regarding patient identified needs including discharge planning and actions.

-Demonstrates effective on going observation and reassessment of patient/family and their response to the interventions and changes in condition.

-Maintains patient/family confidentiality and provides sensitive respectful and compassionate customer service at all times.

-Documentation: Maintains accurate documents of interventions therapies and all interventions within given time period.

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

-Masters Degree in Social Work or related field

Must possess at least one of the following licenses:

-Licensed Clinical Social Worker: KY (LCW

-Professional Counselor: KY (PROFCOUN:KY)

-Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist/Counselo: KY (LMFT:KY)

Additional requirement upon hire :

Baic Life SUpport (BLS:KY)

Where Youll Work

Welcome to CHI Saint Joseph Medical Group a full service network of primary care services specializing in family internal geriatric and pediatric care serving 88 locations across central and Eastern Kentucky. CHI Saint Joseph Medical Group is dedicated to delivering customized care based on the unique needs of our patients and is recognized as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky for two years in a row (2023-2024).

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health a non-profit Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175000 team members and 25000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians advanced practice clinicians nurses and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2200 care centers serving 24 states.

Required Experience:

IC

Job Tags

Full time

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