Sr Clinical Therapist

Job Summary

Provides initial evaluations, crisis intervention and symptom stabilization, emergency evaluations, care coordination, consultation and education to consumers of all ages who present with behavioral health needs. Services are coordinated with family and other professionals or concerned parties and may be performed in a clinic location, in identified community sites in the region, and in homes. Brown University Health employees are expected to role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, as well as the core Success Factors that guide how we work together and get things done.

• Provides screening evaluation on the telephone and face to face.
• Conducts biopsychosocial assessments in agency facilities, community locations, and homes, assessing for risk of harm to self or others, using appropriate assessment tools for accurate diagnoses and case formulation.
• Completes crisis assessments according to required timelines, consulting with family, friends, police, physicians, and treatment providers as needed.
• Recommends disposition and plan for stabilization and offers treatment options and recommendations that are least restrictive alternatives appropriate to level of risk.
• Facilitates involuntary/voluntary hospitalizations of consumers at risk while at the ER and in the community.
• Provides emergency case management for consumers until they are no longer in crisis.
• Identifies and offers referral assistance and coordination to consumers who do not meet criteria of Gateway Healthcare, Inc. treatment programs.
• Schedules and participates in psychiatric/medication evaluations with psychiatrist as needed.
• Maintains current job knowledge of all agency programs, their functions and is able to access these programs effectively.
• Coordinates and consults with ER staff while performing an intervention and acts as liaison between the hospital and referral resources.
• Ensures that crisis contacts with consumers involved in the agency are communicated to the primary clinician and physician.
• Participates in treatment planning meetings and difficult case conferences when necessary for specific consumers.
• Adheres to documentation standards in accordance with Gateway Healthcare, Inc. policy, procedure and licensing standards.
• Obtains past records in order to substantiate and/or support diagnoses for treatment.
• Coordinates with Registration Staff on insurance verification and completion of required paperwork, including releases of information.
• Schedules duties in coordination with other ES team members and modifies work schedule as needed to ensure that the department can be responsive to consumer needs during all open facility hours.
• Appropriately responds to incoming calls on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by actively engaging the caller while also functioning as a resource to the caller: clinician will assess for risk, coordinate referrals and/or emergency services and complete appropriate documentation of each call.
• Is reliable and available by pager and/or by phone during the performance of duties.
• Responds to all requests for consultations/evaluations by the staff in other departments and/or from community partners (e.g., local medical providers, family, police) and assists as needed in coverage at other ES locations if staffing necessitates and/or supervisor’s discretion.
• Participates on the GHI Community Disaster Team, including assessing the need for a team response, calling team members to organize and activate a response, and notifying management according to Disaster Team Response Policy.
• Participates in all necessary meetings and trainings as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Master’s degree in counseling (MA), MSW, MFT; LCSW, LMHC-A, LMFT-A or LICSW preferred.
• Eligible for “Qualified Mental Health Professional” status.
• Eligibility for child & family competency.
• At least 2 years’ experience working in a behavioral health setting.
• Basic life support certification.

• Knowledge of human development and family systems issues.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Automobile insurance coverage.
• Ability to work…