What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Therapist position at ZoeRVA Health?
Who we are:Zoe Therapy Services is a patient-centered environment with a comprehensive program that combines psychotherapy, psychiatric medication management and lifestyle medicine, into your client's wellness journey.
As a licensed Zoe mental health professional, you'll play a meaningful role in dramatically changing lives leveraging our comprehensive wellness program. Our team applies a diverse set of disciplines intended to go well beyond talk therapy by addressing the needs of the whole person: psychological and physical.
Here's What's In It For You
As a licensed Zoe mental health professional, you'll play a meaningful role in dramatically changing lives leveraging our comprehensive wellness program. Our team applies a diverse set of disciplines intended to go well beyond talk therapy by addressing the needs of the whole person: psychological and physical.
Our goal is simple: harmonize the mind, body, spirit and community for mental, emotional, physical, relational and spiritual wellness.
Responsibilities
As a licensed Zoe mental health professional, you'll play a meaningful role in dramatically changing lives leveraging our comprehensive wellness program. Our team applies a diverse set of disciplines intended to go well beyond talk therapy by addressing the needs of the whole person: psychological and physical.
Here's What's In It For You
As a licensed Zoe mental health professional, you'll play a meaningful role in dramatically changing lives leveraging our comprehensive wellness program. Our team applies a diverse set of disciplines intended to go well beyond talk therapy by addressing the needs of the whole person: psychological and physical.
Our goal is simple: harmonize the mind, body, spirit and community for mental, emotional, physical, relational and spiritual wellness.
Responsibilities
- Assesses patient status by obtaining health and mental health history through patient/family interviews and chart reviews; assesses presenting illness, risk factors, family history, psychosocial situation, and cultural factors; and performing appropriate physical examination.
- Integrates data to determine diagnosis and therapeutic plan, including identification of any health risks.
- Develops and implements treatment plan by providing evidence based and/or professionally respected interventions. Monitors progress during treatment.
- Instructs patient/family regarding medications and treatments. Educates patients regarding health promotion/illness prevention.
- Seeks other information as needed, including consultation with clinical leadership, physicians and other clinicians, for evaluation of illness.
- Recommends appropriate community resources to meet patient/family needs.
- Communicates appropriate case management information to other professionals and community agencies.
- Prepares documentation for medical records within 72 hours including updating patient medical chart by posting assessment and test results, diagnosis, medications, and treatment in written/computerized manner.
- Participates in peer reviews, chart reviews, staff education, clinical guideline development, and other continuing education and quality assurance activities to demonstrate compliance with standards, regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Collaborates with multi-disciplinary team as needed in managing acute and long-term medical needs of patient.
- Provides monitoring and continuity of care between visits according to treatment plan including triaging patient calls/e-mails within 24 -48 hours.
- Effective Communicator - Consistently communicates with clarity and thoroughness to optimize audience understanding. Communicates information in a clear, concise, and timely manner. Demonstrates effective speaking and presentation skills.
- Personal Effectiveness - Uses his/her time effectively and efficiently; sets priorities; values time, separates the critical few from the trivial many and concentrates his/her efforts accordingly. Avoids wasting other's time. Achieves goals and meets commitments.
- Problem Solving - Asks good questions and probes all sources for answers; sees underlying or hidden patterns; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers. Uses rigorous logic and methods to analyze and understand why problems occur; generates and implements creative, cost effective and realistic solutions.
- Clinical Skill - Skill in modifying methods and techniques of clinical social work or counseling to provide appropriate therapeutic interventions and in initiating appropriate emergency response and investigatory procedures.
- Cultural Competence - Understand and respect the cultural beliefs, values, and backgrounds of clients. Demonstrate awareness of cultural biases and assumptions to avoid imposing them on clients. Ability to adapt therapeutic techniques to align with the cultural context of clients. Ability to establish/maintain effective working relationships with patients, clinical staff, and the public.
- Three years as a clinical social worker, mental health counselor or psychologist.
- Masters in Clinical Social Work, mental health counseling Psychology or related field
- Current Virginia state license as a mental health professional
- Able to lift & carry items up to 15 lbs. 50% of the day.
- Able to use hands and fingers to operate equipment such as a computer, tablet or smart phone.
- Able to stand, kneel, bend at knees, squat throughout the day.