Description

Job Schedule: Full Time
Standard Hours: 40
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details: 830-5pm with one mandatory night until 8pm

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Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network.

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is a 122-bed, general acute care community hospital located in Torrington, Connecticut, that serves as a regional health care resource for the 100,000 residents of Litchfield County and Northwest Connecticut. CHH offers personalized attention from an expert team of caregivers and physicians that utilize advanced technology and clinical partnerships in a convenient, safe and comfortable patient environment.

Job Summary

The Masters Level Psychiatric Clinician is a Masters prepared Social Worker (MSW), Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), or Professional Counselor (M.S. Counseling). The Psychiatric Clinician is responsible for the assessment, treatment planning and delivery of outpatient behavioral health therapy services under the clinical direction of the Department of Psychiatry Medical Director as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Job Responsibilities

• Conducts comprehensive admission assessments with patients that include the collection of psychiatric, family, medical, substance abuse, development, social, work, and school history through face to face clinical interviews of individuals, families, or guardians. The comprehensive assessment incorporates results of clinical assessment tools and prior psychiatric/medical records.
• Preliminary clinical multi-axial diagnostic impressions utilizing the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Psychiatric Disorders/ICD at time of each comprehensive assessment and treatment plan.
• Verbal case presentations of comprehensive assessments in a multi-disciplinary treatment team
• Engagement of individuals or families in the development of individualized written person centered treatment plans at admission and at required intervals during patients' course of treatment.
• Provision of individual, family, and group therapy utilizing established clinical best practices for each modality.
• Conduct suicide, homicide, and mental status assessments for patients presenting with high risk behaviors and symptoms.
• Dictated/written documentation of comprehensive assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, and case management collateral contacts that meet established Joint Commission, state regulatory and corporate compliance criteria.
• Acquire and maintain managed care insurance knowledge needed for patients to access services. Complete all assigned tasks related to insurance authorizations for reimbursement of patient care.
• Coordination of care with hospital providers, physicians, state agencies, courts, and local non-profits including participation in planning meetings when requested.
• Complete all required hospital and department educational requirements. Complete all state requirements for licensing as a mental health professional.
• Complete all assigned tasks related to quality assurance data collection as required by the department, grant sources, state agencies, and insurance bodies.
• Maintain productivity requirements established by the department including scheduled time and face to face contact with patients.
• Attend and participate in multidisciplinary treatment team meetings, staff development meetings, individual supervision and mandatory department/hospital meetings
• Provide court testimony when subpoenaed related to provision of clinical care to patients.
• Follow all established department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Provide clinical support to all Department of Psychiatry programs as assigned. Perform all other duties as assigned.
• Displays and upholds CHH core values of dignity, compassion, service excellence, community and integrity. Consistently demonstrates caring for patients, for one another, and for the organization they are part of, and contributes to building trust, pride and camaraderie.

Qualifications

• CT Licensed MSW

- OR -

• Master's degree with current Connecticut certification as an Alcohol/Drug Counselor (CADC) required
• All are expected to be in the process of perusing licensure per credentialing requirements.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrates competencies, including knowledge and behaviors, to meet age specific patient needs.
• Bilingual preferred.

We take great care of careers.

As a Hartford Healthcare entity, The Hartford Hospital Institute of Living provides eligible employees with an extensive benefits package and all the benefits of working in a thriving centrally located urban community:

• Medical and dental benefits
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off with accrual starting on the date of hire
• Additional voluntary benefits as well as employee discount programs
• Located on the Institute of Living's historic park-like grounds designed by Frederick Law Ohlmsted

With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment.