Alvarado Parkway Institute (API) is a free-standing psychiatric hospital in San Diego, California with three Intensive Outpatient/Partial Hospitalization Programs. Alvarado Parkway Institute (API) provides comprehensive adult inpatient behavioral health and addictive disorders services in a 66-bed hospital setting located in La Mesa, California. At Alvarado Parkway Institute, we are committed to improving the mental health and well-being of our community. Alvarado Parkway Institute in San Diego, is San Diego County's leading provider of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse care. API offers a variety of Outpatient Services designed to assist patients in functioning at the highest level. API provides Partial Hospitalization services and Intensive Outpatient services. These programs emphasize symptom management, community integration, and prevention of hospitalization or re-hospitalization. Value-added services enhance the patient's treatment experience.

API has a generous benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life, accident, legal, hospital, critical illness, short term and long term disability, FSA, 401(k) and opportunities for annual professional development. Our mission at API is to improve mental health and quality of life by helping people maximize their potential.

The Behavioral Therapist is responsible for providing quality case management and psychotherapeutic services to the adult psychiatric patients who are participating in the OPS program and to their families and members of their social support network; to serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team supporting the organization’s treatment program and philosophy; and to assure the deliverance of quality treatment to adult psychiatric patients and their families.

• Familiarity in developing treatment plans, self-harm intervention plans.
• Conducting psycho-social assessments
• Establish and maintain a good rapport and working relationships to foster intra and inter-departmental communications necessary for the delivery of quality patient care; responds to requests for information from patients, families, and caregivers; provides directions as necessary; reflect the confidentiality of patient and organization information; communicates pertinent information as necessary by telephone and/or writing.
• Provides individual and group psychotherapy, psycho education and where appropriate, family counseling to facilitate patient attainment goals; makes use of recognized, effective interventions; provides crisis intervention as needed; adheres to billing and documentation guidelines.
• Completes psycho-social assessments as well as other required assessments and screenings to document relevant patient history and identify preliminary issues for treatment focus by interviewing the patient and family member(s) of support network.
• Develop and coordinate individualized treatment plans for the patient based upon physician order; patient-derived data, treatment team recommendation, records of previous treatment/chart review, and ancillary sources (e.g., family members, etc.); identify and assess community-based resources to facilitate development of concurrent, ancillary support; identify and develop appropriate discharge plans based upon patient need, treatment team recommendation(s), and available resources.
• Attend regular treatment team meetings to provide Behavioral Health Therapist perspective to total case management of the patient by reading and discussing written program notes from charts and communicating any state or local agency legal requirements for case management with the interdisciplinary team.
• Complete all mandatory third-party notifications per organizational policies and procedures and community/legal requirements; represent facility in any legal proceedings.
• Display cultural sensitivity with regards to patients and staff.
• Provide appropriate referrals to inpatient and/or outpatient settings; complete or assist in the completion of assessments to facilitate from one level of care to another.
• Participate in activities than enhance professional growth and development.
• Perform all other related tasks as required.

Knowledge of:

• Knowledge of acute adult psychological disorders; advanced principals of abnormal psychology as specifically as applies to adults.
• Related regulatory compliance and reporting requirements.