About Job
Summary
Therapist will utilize Trauma-Informed Therapy practices, and other Best-Practice modalities, in the clinic setting to create and provide Mental Health and co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Recovery treatment interventions to produce positive outcomes in client functioning as a result of treatment. Join Sweetser's existing team of clinicians providing services to our clients!
Essential Functions
Provide customer service within established deadlines, consistent with organizational values, standards, and policies.
Demonstrate leadership in Case Coordination.
Complete timely, professionally written documentation.
Manage insurance authorizations in a fiscally responsible manner.
Use quality Collaborative Documentation to maintain insurance-required documentation.
Coordinate clinical appointments.
Use the Organization’s established tools and procedures to formulate a Comprehensive Assessment. This includes, but is not limited to, the Level of Care and Risk Assessment, involving family members, providers, and natural supports.
Create clinical interventions in an Individualized Service Treatment Plan, reflective of industry standards of best-practice and Evidence-Based Treatment, which accurately demonstrates that the client’s presenting symptoms require the prescribed intervention and that it forms measurable functioning outcomes.
Demonstrate Trauma-Informed Treatment.
Provide Integrated Care by including the client’s Natural Supports and Providers.
Provide a clinical experience for student interns and conditionally licensed therapists, as appropriate.
Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrates professionalism and collaboration with others.
Receive and understand professional feedback from supervisors and colleagues and implement supervisory suggestions for performance improvement.
Recognize signs of increasing clinical or situational risk and of escalating behavior and utilize de-escalation and safety implementation techniques effectively.
Recognize variables underlying stressful situations, discern methods to diffuse or contain them, and quickly implement the most effective intervention.
Manage multi-task situations and conflicting demands, cope with stressful situations, prioritize projects and responsibilities, and meet critical deadlines.
Maintains current knowledge in present practice area (i.e., attendance at required hours of organization educational programs) and utilizes clinical supervision as a learning experience.
Use listening skills, flexible collaboration, and a consistent problem-solving focus in working to resolve differences with colleagues, peers, and clients.
Communicate ideas and opinions in a clear and constructive manner, both verbally and in writing.
Intermediate computer skills required.