Licensed Mental Health Clinician
Medium, San Jose, CA, United States
Are you a person who enjoys helping others? Are you currently seeking fulfillment in your professional life?
Hope Services is the Bay Area's largest non‑profit agency, providing a wide array of quality services for persons with developmental disabilities for over 60 years.
Salary Range:
$89k to $129k per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications
Hope Services offers an outstanding benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) retirement, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous paid vacation and sick time accrual plans, and more.
About the Licensed Mental Health Clinician role
The Licensed Mental Health Clinician provides assessment and diagnosis to clients with dual diagnosis, offers individual, group and family psychotherapy, prepares individual service and coordination plans, documents clinical outcomes, and acts as an advocate.
Responsibilities of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician
Provide individual, group and family therapy to persons with developmental disability who are diagnosed with severe mental illness.
Utilize professional education and training to diagnose and treat clients’ mental illnesses.
Provide psychotherapy to empower clients to identify and manage their psychiatric symptoms to enable maximal functional engagement in the larger community.
Continuously assess clients for potential harm to self, to others, or potential victimization and take appropriate measures to maintain safety, including initiating involuntary hospitalizations when necessary.
Advocate for clients with other agencies, educate those agencies to recognize and meet the needs of clients who have a developmental disability and are diagnosed with a mental illness.
Develop relapse prevention strategies with clients and their support systems to prevent future psychiatric hospitalizations and loss of community placements.
Participate as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team designed to maximally meet the psychiatric and psychological needs of clients.
Regularly attend training to update and keep current skills and maintain licensure.
Maintain appropriate treatment records and documentation as required.
Perform other duties as assigned to assure efficiency of the program.
Qualifications of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician
The Licensed Mental Health Clinician should possess current licensure as an LCSW, LMFT, or Clinical Psychologist and experience working with persons with developmental disabilities. All licensed clinicians, upon hire or upon obtaining licensure, are required to be Medicare credentialed by submitting a Medicare enrollment application.
Required Skills of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician
Basic computer skills in word processing and spreadsheet application.
Ability to observe, evaluate, document and communicate verbally and in writing.
Ability to accept supervision and work cooperatively as a team member with co‑workers as well as with the client and community resources.
Knowledge of disabilities and the biological, psychological and social models.
Ability to utilize critical thinking skills in decision‑making situations, good organizational and record‑keeping skills, and good independent judgment.
Knowledge of psychotherapy.
Knowledge and understanding of multidisciplinary team and family dynamics.
Ability to be flexible with scheduling and prioritization of tasks.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Primarily works in an office environment. Long periods of sitting. Some use of computer for record keeping, periods of intense concentration. Some travel to satellite locations, exposure to outdoor conditions.
Do you have what it takes to make a difference? Inspire and be inspired! Hope Services takes immense pride in maximizing our employee engagement. Will you join us?
EEO Statement
Hope Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family or parental status, or any other status.
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Hope Services is the Bay Area's largest non‑profit agency, providing a wide array of quality services for persons with developmental disabilities for over 60 years.
Salary Range:
$89k to $129k per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications
Hope Services offers an outstanding benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) retirement, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous paid vacation and sick time accrual plans, and more.
About the Licensed Mental Health Clinician role
The Licensed Mental Health Clinician provides assessment and diagnosis to clients with dual diagnosis, offers individual, group and family psychotherapy, prepares individual service and coordination plans, documents clinical outcomes, and acts as an advocate.
Responsibilities of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician
Provide individual, group and family therapy to persons with developmental disability who are diagnosed with severe mental illness.
Utilize professional education and training to diagnose and treat clients’ mental illnesses.
Provide psychotherapy to empower clients to identify and manage their psychiatric symptoms to enable maximal functional engagement in the larger community.
Continuously assess clients for potential harm to self, to others, or potential victimization and take appropriate measures to maintain safety, including initiating involuntary hospitalizations when necessary.
Advocate for clients with other agencies, educate those agencies to recognize and meet the needs of clients who have a developmental disability and are diagnosed with a mental illness.
Develop relapse prevention strategies with clients and their support systems to prevent future psychiatric hospitalizations and loss of community placements.
Participate as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team designed to maximally meet the psychiatric and psychological needs of clients.
Regularly attend training to update and keep current skills and maintain licensure.
Maintain appropriate treatment records and documentation as required.
Perform other duties as assigned to assure efficiency of the program.
Qualifications of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician
The Licensed Mental Health Clinician should possess current licensure as an LCSW, LMFT, or Clinical Psychologist and experience working with persons with developmental disabilities. All licensed clinicians, upon hire or upon obtaining licensure, are required to be Medicare credentialed by submitting a Medicare enrollment application.
Required Skills of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician
Basic computer skills in word processing and spreadsheet application.
Ability to observe, evaluate, document and communicate verbally and in writing.
Ability to accept supervision and work cooperatively as a team member with co‑workers as well as with the client and community resources.
Knowledge of disabilities and the biological, psychological and social models.
Ability to utilize critical thinking skills in decision‑making situations, good organizational and record‑keeping skills, and good independent judgment.
Knowledge of psychotherapy.
Knowledge and understanding of multidisciplinary team and family dynamics.
Ability to be flexible with scheduling and prioritization of tasks.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Primarily works in an office environment. Long periods of sitting. Some use of computer for record keeping, periods of intense concentration. Some travel to satellite locations, exposure to outdoor conditions.
Do you have what it takes to make a difference? Inspire and be inspired! Hope Services takes immense pride in maximizing our employee engagement. Will you join us?
EEO Statement
Hope Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family or parental status, or any other status.
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