Behavioral Health Therapist Lead - Addiction Recovery Center

• Provides evaluation, counseling and therapeutic services to chemically dependent patients/families assessing patient's social, psychological, emotional, financial, cultural problems and chemical abuse history.
• Supports the patient and family throughout treatment by maintaining open communication with referral resources, patient and family. Assists patient and family with adjustment to illness, motivation for treatment and realistic planning for post treatment care. This includes conjoint conferences with patients, concerned persons and referral sources, as appropriate, to assists the patient and family in working towards positive outcomes.
• Coordinates the patient's care with the interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Develops individual treatment plans based upon information gathered. Assess and chooses teaching strategies and therapy modalities appropriate to the patient's and their families' age specific needs, culture, gender, readiness to learn and level of comprehension.
• Documents per department guidelines. Provides statistical data or special reports as required.
• Maintains current knowledge of behavioral managed care and the precertification and utilization review activities necessary to obtain treatment approval.
• Participates in on-call coverage and covering weekend inpatient programming on a rotating basis.
• Provides training to new hire clinicians and is responsible for orienting clinician interns.
• Is responsible for managing the clinician and MHA schedules as assigned by program manager.
• Co-facilitates or facilitates monthly MHA and clinician meetings. Serves on professional organization committees or boards as appropriate.
• Conducts 1:1 supervision with each clinician at least once monthly.
• Continues professional development and involvement in professional activities that enhance clinical practice by sharing knowledge through networking and research. Participates in mandatory education and department staff meetings, per established guidelines. Develops, promotes, and maintains a good relationship with self-help programs such as AA, NA and Al-Anon.
• Demonstrates knowledge that patient and workplace safety is a priority by preventing errors, accidents and infections and reporting potential or actual concerns immediately.
• Is knowledgeable of hospital and department compliance requirements for federally funded healthcare programs (e.g. Medicare and Medicaid) regarding fraud, waste and abuse. Brings any questions or concerns regarding compliance to the immediate attention of hospital administrative staff. Takes appropriate action on concerns reported by department staff related to compliance. Practices and reflects knowledge of HIPAA, TJC, DNV, OSHA and other federal/state regulatory agencies guiding healthcare.
• Other duties as assigned.

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