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    Behavioral Health Counselor - Trenton, United States - Henry J Austin

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    Trenton, New Jersey, United States - Behavioral Health - Full-Time

    Henry J. Austin Health Center is the largest non-hospital-based ambulatory care provider in Trenton, NJ, and we understand the importance of delivering health care to a culturally diverse community. We provide trauma-informed holistic person-centered care, and our focus on multi-disciplinary collaborative care includes primary care, behavioral health care, oral health care, and clinical pharmacy services. We also understand our community has complex needs. So, we offer additional services that support the social determinants of health, including services like transportation, food access, housing support, medication assistance, and interpretation services.

    We are dedicated to taking great care of our employees and empowering them to succeed. This enables them to focus on providing excellent care for our clients. We offer the following benefits:

    BENEFITS

    • Flexible work schedules, mainly onsite, with some hybrid availability
    • Excellent pay for the position (Base Pay and Bonuses)
    • Loan repayment options through HRSA (Health Resources Services Administration)
    • Continuing education reimbursement and advancement opportunities
    • Supervision will be provided for all LSWs
    • In-house professional development
    • Medical (with company-funded HRA), Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
    • Commuter reimbursement
    • Mental health support
    • Vacation leave, Sick leave, Personal days
    • 401k retirement plan with company match
    • Amazing team culture and clinical support
    • Brand pride
    For more in-depth information on HJAHC's benefits, please visit the following link

    THE OPPORTUNITY

    We are seeking a Behavioral Health Counselor who provides behavioral and mental health services, including brief intervention counseling, referrals to higher levels of care, and follow-up services to patients. This individual reports to the Behavioral Health Director and is responsible for working independently, managing a diverse and sometimes difficult caseload, does related work as required.

    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

    Direct Service:
    • Provide comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of behavioral health clients.
    • Provide effective treatment planning and assist clients in successfully achieving goals.
    • Evaluate crisis situations and apply appropriate interventions.
    • Actively participate in meetings that support the integrated healthcare model to provide comprehensive care for clients.
    • Assist in the detection of "at risk" patients and the development of plans to prevent further psychological or physical deterioration.
    • Assist the primary care team in developing care management processes such as using guidelines, disease management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve self-management of chronic disease.
    • Provide assessment, consultation, and brief intervention for psychological/psychiatric problems and/or disorders.
    • Teach patients, families, and staff care, prevention, and treatment enhancement techniques.
    • Monitor the site's behavioral health program, identifying problems related to patient services and making recommendations for improvement.
    • Other duties as assigned.
    Program Development and Maintenance:
    • Develop and maintain liaison relationships with community resources as possible, specifically other behavioral health and substance abuse agencies. Work to establish collaborative services and to lessen duplication of care.
    • In conjunction with other staff, maintain a standardized current community resource directory.
    • Participate in the development, implementation, and evaluation of special projects and/or pilot programs.
    • Interpret center behavioral health policies and procedures to providers, institutions, agencies, recipients, and other concerned individuals.
    • Establish and maintain necessary records and files. Draft correspondence in the course of official duties.
    • Collect, record, and analyze significant program-related data; develop monthly statistical and programmatic reports.
    Staff Development:
    • Serve as a full member of the HJAHC clinical staff team.
    • Participate fully in Behavioral Health departmental meetings and other agency meetings as warranted.
    • Participate in professional and related meetings, conferences, and continuing education training as available; prepares reports as requested.
    • Keep appraised of developing areas of behavioral health and provide colleagues with updates as appropriate.
    • Assist in behavioral health departmental tasks, including programmatic and infrastructure design, implementation, and evaluation.
    • Learn and implement various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the Center or its related units.
    Requirements

    PHYSICAL & WORK REQUIREMENTS

    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    This position requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate phones, computers, and other office equipment. The position requires the physical ability to kneel, bend, and perform light lifting. This person must have the ability to write and speak clearly using the English language to convey information and be able to hear at normal speaking levels both in person and over the telephone. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Generally, the working conditions are good with little or no exposure to extremes in health, safety hazards and/or hazardous materials.

    EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
    • Master's degree in social work or PhD in Clinical Psychology required
    LICENSURE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS:
    • Licensed in the State of New Jersey as a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) required
    • Licensed in the State of New Jersey as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
    KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND OTHER (KSAO's)
    • Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Word Processing software.
    • Excellent working knowledge of behavioral medicine and evidence-based treatments for medical and mental health conditions.
    • Ability to work through brief patient contacts as well as to make quick and accurate clinical assessments of mental and behavioral conditions.
    • Should be comfortable with the pace of primary care, working with an interdisciplinary team, and have strong communication skills.
    • Good knowledge of psycho-pharmacology.
    • Ability to design and implement clinical pathways and protocols for treatment of selected chronic conditions.
    Benefits

    Excellent Pay for Position, Loan Repayment Options through HRSA (Health Resources Services Administration), Continuing Education Reimbursement, Medical (with company-funded HRA), Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), vacation leave, sick leave, personal days, 401k retirement plan with company match. Supervision will be provided for all LSW's.


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