Outpatient Competency Restoration Therapist

** About Greater Lakes Mental Health
** Greater Lakes Mental Health is a key component of Multi Care’s Behavioral Health Network, providing mental health and substance use disorder treatment for over 10,000 individuals annually across Pierce County. Providing services for adults, children, and families with Medicaid coverage, Greater Lakes offers 6 convenient mental health care locations including a 16-bed inpatient facility covering medically necessary voluntary and involuntary services to adults.

Our experienced teams, veteran nurses, and robust training plans are designed to support your success and growth in facilitating recovery-oriented and trauma-informed treatment.
** FTE:
** 1.0,
** Shift: M-F**,
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* Schedule:

** 8-4:30
** Position Summary
** The Mental Health Therapist is a vital role at Multi Care, responsible for the delivery of clinical counseling and case management services. From patient advocacy to therapeutic interventions, this position will offer you dynamic engagements in your daily work functions.
** Responsibilities
* ** You will provide person-centered counseling, advocacy and case management for patients
* You will develop treatment plans which clearly identify the patient’s voice, treatment strategies, and specific outcome measures
* You will meet agency documentation standards
* You will meet authorization requirements of contracts
* You will strategically tailor effective clinical/case management services to meet diverse patient needs
** Requirements
* ** Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral health related field required;
Master's degree preferred
* Must be eligible and apply for a Washington State Agency Affiliated Counselor within 30 days and obtain within 90 days of placement in job, unless a higher credential is held
* Current Washington state driver’s license or obtained within 30-days of relocating to Washington
* Previous experience providing mental health counseling services preferred
* Depending on assigned area, proof of a safe driving record (which meets established Multi Care Standards) obtained by a motor vehicle report from the appropriate state may be required
** Pay and Benefit Expectations
** We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $30.10 - $43.32 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education.

If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed .Multi Care is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. Multi Care has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho.

Multi Care’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network;
Multi Care Indigo Urgent Care;
Pulse Heart Institute;
Multi Care Medical Associates, affiliated physicians;
Multi Care Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and Multi Care Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization.

Twelve hospitals complete the organization:
Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washington — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Yakima Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South…