Job Title: Behavioral Healthcare Provider 2
Profession: Behavioral Healthcare Provider
Specialty: Staff Augmentation
Duration: 52 Weeks
Shift: Day
Hours per Shift: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Experience: Minimum years of experience required
License: Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor, Licensed Independent Social Worker, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist, or Licensed Registered Nurse with appropriate certification in Mental Health or Psychiatry.
Certifications: Required certifications per qualifications listed above.
Must-Have: Completion of continuing professional education for license renewal.
Description:
The Behavioral Healthcare Provider develops, coordinates, implements, and provides interdisciplinary services concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical science.
Knowledge and techniques relevant to health and illness are essential for the application of this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Independently provides behavioral healthcare services within the credentialed scope of practice.
Serves as a lead worker or liaison to other support agencies, public or private.
Acts as a lead worker over lower-level behavioral healthcare providers.
Independently develops and implements treatment plans for clients.
Coordinates admission, assessment, evaluation, and treatment plans of client care.
Provides interventions with acute and complex clients.
Handles cases with numerous factors and problems.
Provides crisis intervention as needed.
Participates in establishing, implementing, and directing behavioral healthcare programs and treatment system objectives.
Develops and designs treatment intervention techniques and procedures.
Evaluates and modifies treatment systems to be responsive to client progress.
Evaluates the performance of lower-level behavioral healthcare providers in administering prescribed treatment plans.
Maintains necessary data documents to satisfy requirements of regulatory agencies.
Serves as an active member of treatment teams, training sessions, and department meetings.
Establishes and maintains working relationships with other facilities and agencies to coordinate referrals and follow-up services.
Unusual working conditions may require unusual work schedules or exposure to potentially violent clients.
May require travel to community sites under contract with relevant departments.