Psychotherapist, Behavioral Health
$94,482–$132,271 year
HybridSanta Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Provide psychotherapy to individuals, children, and families while delivering comprehensive assessments and counseling for mental, emotional, and behavioral issues related to chronic or life-threatening illnesses. Assist patients in coping with stress, grief, and loss, and facilitate healthy behavioral changes through crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, and group facilitation. Collaborate with physicians and administrative staff on care coordination, treatment planning, and discharge planning, serving as the primary resource for all mental health matters. Partner with other licensed clinicians to implement best practices in psychotherapy and guided imagery, ensuring alignment with research and regulatory standards.
Required Qualifications
- Master's: Social Work OR Master of Social Services, MSS, degree from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
- LCSW-Licensed Clinical Social Worker OR LMFT-Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist OR PS-Psychologist of California
- Two years recent relevant experience
- Clinical skills in biopsychosocial assessment and clinical interventions, including crisis intervention, intervention with patient/family behavioral issues, grief counseling, supportive counseling, adjustment to illness, life review/end of life support, behavioral change therapy, motivational interviewing, short-term family counseling, group facilitation
- Collaboration skills and ability to work effectively on a team
- Knowledge of transitions of care and community resources
- Knowledge of post acute levels of care and resource needs for discharge planning
- Knowledge of child, elder and dependent adult abuse, crimes against persons reporting requirements, and other significant regulations affecting clinical social work practice (e.g. Tarasoff, patient confidentiality)
- Knowledge of behavioral health and the skills to assess mental health functioning, high risk behaviors, depression, anxiety, or other psychiatric conditions impacting hospitalization or transitions of care
- Knowledge of suicidal behavior, and the skills necessary to assess lethality, and to develop and implement an appropriate plan of care
- Knowledge of substance use and the skills to assess level of addiction, motivation for change, and to develop and implement an appropriate plan of care
- Knowledge and understanding of the influence of cultural and spiritual values in social work practice
- Knowledge and skills necessary to provide psychosocial care appropriate to the age-specific needs of newborns, children, adolescents, adults and elders
- Knowledge of palliative care, goals of care discussions, and the psychosocial needs of the patient and family at end-of-life
- Knowledge of bioethics and legal issues impacting patient care
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing
- Must demonstrate interpersonal and organizational skills, to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities and competing demands
- Proficient in using a computer to accurately enter and extract data, send and receive email, calendar appointments, and use task lists as will be using a variety of computer software programs
- Knowledge of local county/state/federal resources for at-risk population
- Experience with group therapy
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