Job description:
Position: Licensed Behavioral Health Professional
Shift time: 8:00 AM-4:30 PM
Location: Union Spring, AL
Contract duration: 13 weeks.
Guarantee: 40 Hours
Facility Type: Corrections Setting
Pay: $53/hr. on w2.
Responsibilities:
- Performs individual and group therapeutic interventions as appropriate.
- Conducts psychosocial assessments and mental health intake evaluations as indicated.
- Performs risk assessment and intervention,
- Provides behavioural health consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary clinical team and to correctional personnel as directed.
- Performs crisis intervention and de-escalation as indicated.
- Supports and/or direct care coordination efforts for patients returning to the community requiring ongoing behavioural health services.
- Initiates, completes, and maintains patient treatment plans.
- Participate in team meetings.
- Assists in planning and implementing the goals and objectives of programs and projects. May direct special projects as requested.
- Participates in and conducts in-service training programs, as well as assists in the orientation of new staff.
- Provides the necessary preparation of documentation, necessary records and reports.
- Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in social work, Counselling Psychology or Other Related Mental Health discipline.
- Unrestricted, current license in the state of practice - LCSW, LMFT, LPC, LMHC, or Psychologist.
- Counselling experience in a correctional setting preferred.
- BLS (Basic Life Support) Certification.
