Description

POSITION PURPOSE

• Provide, oversee, and administer a wide range of psychosocial evaluation/assessment, diagnostic, counseling therapy, crisis intervention, and case management services that integrate behavioral health programs with primary health care.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Provide counseling, therapy, and/or psychotherapy to clients and families.
• Prepare treatment plans, discharge plans, and follow-up care programs.
• Provide therapeutic crisis intervention, for those with serious disturbance problems or emergency services as required in alignment with, “A Guidebook of Professional Practices for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration.”
• Collect patient data through interview, case history, psychological tests, and/or observational techniques; evaluates data to identify causes of problems and to determine proper therapeutic approach or referral to other specialists. Keep abreast of patient data to ensure appropriate treatment and care are delivered.
• Consult with other therapists, treatment agencies and professionals in the performance of therapeutic and/or casework.
• Refer clients to appropriate service agencies, and inform them of patient rights and responsibilities.
• Provide and/or arranges patient/client therapeutic interventions in a crisis condition and for those with serious disturbance problems.
• Establish and maintain case files, referrals, and other related documents for the treatment of clients; prepare related documentation for civil commitment hearings or other legal proceedings.

ANCILLARY JOB FUNCTIONS

• Plan and facilitate community outreach and education activities, as appropriate to the position; may serve as a liaison and representative to community organizations and schools.
• Perform various administrative functions such as monitoring budgets and preparing reports and correspondence; may participate in a variety of research projects to develop service plans, and may propose changes to program policies and procedures.
• Provide formal teaching, consultation, and in-service training to relevant professionals in immediate and proper handling of and/or referral of a variety of matters.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, or an equivalent field
• 2 years of experience in behavioral health or social work.
• Current State of Utah Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, CSW, ACMHC, CMHC, LFMT, or MFT) license in good standing required or license eligible.

Preferred, but not required:

• Knowledge and understanding of clinical social work and mental health counseling principles, methods, procedures, and standards, as well as social and vocational rehabilitation.
• Experience in pediatric social work, and trauma work.
• Experience using Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems such as ECW and Help2.
• Bilingual Spanish/English.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Knowledge of psychological testing interpretation, interviewing and psychological/developmental evaluation skills, and crisis intervention techniques.
• Knowledge of community mental health resources, clinical operations and procedures.
• Ability to maintain emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses.
• Ability to evaluate the progress of therapeutic programs and to make individual modifications.
• Knowledge of legal and ethical issues related to patients' rights.
• Ability to build interpersonal relationship and deliver excellent customer service to internal and external customers.
• Ability to work independently, with limited supervision and direction and as a highly functioning team member.
• Ability to think critically and make effective administrative/procedural decisions and judgments.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL ABILITIES

• Must be able to sit, stand, talk and hear for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to have repetitive wrist, hand and/or finger movement to type and work on computer.
• General office environment conditions, with moderate noise levels.
• May be exposed to potentially dangerous bodily fluids or hazardous chemicals.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• This is a FT Non-Exempt Position that pays $30-$42/hour (including admin time) depending on experience
• UPFH offers a generous benefits package including health, disability, vision and dental insurance, a SIMPLE IRA with employer match, and an HSA with employer contributions.
• Loan Repayment Program.

ORGANIZATIONAL AND CULTURAL FIT

• At UPFH, we go above and beyond to help, care for and serve our patients and the community with excellence. We do this by working hard, being a team player, growing and improving, being empowered and focusing on quality. We are an organization that values proactive, welcoming, happy, open-minded, flexible, positive, willing and kind employees.

ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION

• Utah Partners for Health is a community health organization with a passion to fill the gaps in Utah’s health care system by providing continuous, comprehensive and culturally sensitive health care of the highest quality. UPFH’s services include medical, eye, dental and behavioral health to benefit uninsured and underserved populations. Our mission is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, quality care to empower underserved individuals, families and communities in a patient-centered medical home.

UPFH provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

RECRUITING STATEMENT

Are you a critical thinker who can evaluate and provide appropriate therapeutic treatments for patients?

Do you enjoy creating a safe, trusting place for patients to discuss their concerns?

Are you looking for a job where you can help, care and serve patients and the community?

If so, then the Behavioral Health Specialist at Utah Partners for Health (UPFH) is for you!

What is Utah Partners for Health all about?

• We love our patients! Our passionate and devoted teams help, care and serve our patients and the community with excellence.
• We are dedicated! We are proactive, positive, friendly, flexible, open-minded and hard-working team players, who find great purpose and happiness in our work.
• We want to empower! We’re always searching for and learning new ways to go above and beyond to help, care and serve at UPFH.
• We are growing! We recently expanded our services at UPFH and will continue to grow to better provide for the needs of our patients and the community.

If you want to be a part of our story, and contribute to the learning and excellence of our organization as a Behavioral Health Specialist, we welcome you to apply for this job.