Description

Position Summary

 Ensures the optimal care of clients seeking longer-term behavioral health services provided by Magnolia Creek.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Maintains frequent and close working relationships with clients, Executive Director, National Director of Admissions, Nursing, facility leadership, peers and vendors.

Outside the organization: May initiate and maintain working relationships with clinical providers, referral partners and vendors as needed and directed.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Provides compassionate and professional guidance to clients, and referring professionals seeking longer-term behavioral health services.
2. Serves as contact for guidance regarding client care, ensuring physician orders are followed.
3. Oversee weekly treatment team meetings to coordinate care, communicate client needs and progress, and ensure consistent and quality care.
4. Ensures programming is defined, coordinated, staffed and delivered in a manner that provides high quality care for clients.
5. Provide oversight of utilization review process with personal involvement in difficult cases.
6. Maintains client caseload and acts as primary practitioner for assigned clients.
7. Responsible for managing and maintaining CARF accreditation and providing oversight to other staff to maintain their compliance
8. Represents Magnolia Creek at local, regional and national eating disorder-oriented events.
9. Works closely with business office and direct care support staff.
10. Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications related to MC Mission and population.

Additional Responsibilities

1. Functions within the guidelines of the facility’s Code of Ethics and in accordance with corporate compliance.
2. Assists in promoting and ensuring that the mission, goals and objectives of MC are understood and actively supported by the employees.
3. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

Licensed in Alabama. Possesses working knowledge of psychotherapy, psychopathology, diagnostic assessment and related treatment interventions. Knowledge of evidence-based treatments and ability to individualize treatment approaches to meet each client's needs. Must be able to conceptualize and implement master treatment plan with fully developed problems, objectives and goals and monitor other clinicians to do the same. Three plus years of psychological experience. Experience in treating eating disorders is preferred.

Other Requirements

Position requires incumbent to have a valid driver’s license and vehicle insurance.

Skill Competencies

• Demonstrates the working knowledge of the admissions process.
• Demonstrates desire to work with clients with eating disorders.
• Must follow all privacy and confidentiality requirements and regulations.
• Must possess clear understanding of safety and security standards of MC and the employee’s role within those standards.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving and analytical skills and the ability to use sound judgement
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills, while building and maintaining professional relationships.
• Must work within the guidelines of facilities Code of Ethics.
• Demonstrates a strong belief in and commitment to the goals and mission of Magnolia Creek 

Magnolia Creek provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment.Magnolia Creek reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”