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ACT Team Licensed Therapist
Oswego Health
Oswego, NY, USA · Oswego, NY, USA · New York, NY, USA · United States
Posted on Dec 21, 2024
Job Summary
Responsible for evaluating client needs, providing direct clinical services and participating in
interdisciplinary team meetings/staffing. Provides direct psychiatric mental health counselling services within the outpatient setting. Maintains appropriate documentation and prepare reports as required. Occasionally supervises subordinate staff and/or students.
Duties/Responsibilities
Required Skills/Abilities (Unit Specific):
Employee salary is based on commensurate experience and other qualifications.
The mission of Oswego Health is to provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of residents throughout Oswego County. As a nonprofit healthcare system that was established in 1881, Oswego Health is proud to continue to be one of Oswego County’s largest employers. More than 1,200 employees spread throughout its 17 locations, work for the Oswego Health system, which includes the 164-bed community hospital with a brand new Medical Surgical Unit, a 32-bed state-of-the-art psychiatric acute-care facility with multiple outpatient behavioral health service locations, The Manor at Seneca Hill, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, and Springside at Seneca Hill, an independent retirement community. The health system also operates Oswego Health Home Care, the only hospital-based certified home healthcare agency in the County as well as two outpatient centers, including the Fulton Medical Center, offering urgent care, lab, medical imaging, physical therapy, and occupational health services; and the Central Square Medical Center, offering urgent care, lab, medical imaging, and physical therapy services. In addition, Oswego Health includes the Oswego Health captive professional corporation, Physician Care P.C., providing physician services in orthopedics, cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, breast care, audiology, general surgery, bariatrics, and primary care.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Oswego Health is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment-related matters, without regard to race (including traits historically associated with race), creed, color, religion, sex/gender, national origin, age, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy-related condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, citizenship status, ancestry, arrest/conviction record, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, reproductive health decision making, relationship or association with a member of a protected category, or any other legally protected characteristic. Decisions affecting your position including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, training, tuition assistance, leaves of absence, disciplinary action, layoff/recall, and terminations will be made in accordance with this policy.
Responsible for evaluating client needs, providing direct clinical services and participating in
interdisciplinary team meetings/staffing. Provides direct psychiatric mental health counselling services within the outpatient setting. Maintains appropriate documentation and prepare reports as required. Occasionally supervises subordinate staff and/or students.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Provide counseling for individuals, groups, or families.
- Participate in screenings or other intake assessment activities as assigned.
- Provides support to those with chronic, persistent mental illness in the community on an outreach basis. Provide continuous coverage 24 hours a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
- Teach empowerment/self-help. Encourage and assist consumers to participate in self-advocacy
- Teaches problem solving, coping and relationship skills to clients and their natural supports.
- Educate clients and their natural supports about mental illness.
- Teaches client to identify relapse triggers and develop and relapse plan.
- Demonstrates knowledge of safety plans and procedures.
- Assist with service planning: Develop with clients a comprehensive, individualized service plan that is goal oriented. Identify strengths and weaknesses, needs and goals. Identify risk factors regarding harm to self and/or others.
- Provide crisis counseling when necessary, including weekends and holidays.
- Engage clients in establishing trusting, collaborative relationships directed towards the goal of competitive employment in community settings.
- Provide evaluations for Family Court or other agencies as assigned.
- Provide crisis counseling/evaluations when indicated.
- Provide services as an individual therapist, including assessment of treatment needs, treatment planning, and coordination of services.
- Provide clinical services in accordance with managed care regulations when indicated.
- Provide clinical supervision to subordinate staff or students when indicated.
- Provide consultation/education related to specialty area for other staff as indicated.
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation and prepare periodic reports as required.
- Medication Support: Rehabilitative counseling and skill development, regarding medications are provided under the supervision of the professional staff. Staff member may deliver medications from the pharmacy, monitor medication response, side effects, patient filling mediation bar and report observation, concerns to the licensed professional provider or RN.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with division staff, other service providers, and the community at large.
- Coordinate clients' plans of treatment with other service providers as needed. Refer for additional/specialized services when indicated.
- Comply with state and federal government rules and regulations regarding health, safety and equal opportunity.
- Attend daily ACT Team meeting and monthly staff meetings.
- Participate in department quality monitoring.
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with other agencies and staff in an effort to deliver quality service to customers.
- Ability to use computer programs including order entry per policy as assigned.
- Complete all department documentation accurately as assigned.
- Accurately identifies all information before filing, collating, or reporting data.
- Maintain charts and files in a systematic order.
- Prepare and process routine correspondence as assigned. Process incoming and outgoing mail.
- Schedule patient appointments to meet the needs of customers.
- Assist with discharge planning by making appointments with other agencies and Out-Treatment.
- Complete release of information by obtaining data from discharge releases and other agencies.
- Strong communication skills.
- Complete employment required trainings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities (Unit Specific):
- Knowledge of current professional knowledge of therapeutic concepts and techniques.
- Knowledge of state and federal government rules and regulations regarding health, safety and equal opportunity.
- Ability to work under stressful situations with clients, families and other human services providers. Appointments may involve irregular work hours and may be provided at satellite locations.
- Required Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling with NYS license OR Permit
- Prefer one-year experience in a similar setting
- Requires attendance of seminars, workshops, conferences when appropriate.
- Requires attendance of staff and team meetings.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 15lbs at times.
Employee salary is based on commensurate experience and other qualifications.
The mission of Oswego Health is to provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of residents throughout Oswego County. As a nonprofit healthcare system that was established in 1881, Oswego Health is proud to continue to be one of Oswego County’s largest employers. More than 1,200 employees spread throughout its 17 locations, work for the Oswego Health system, which includes the 164-bed community hospital with a brand new Medical Surgical Unit, a 32-bed state-of-the-art psychiatric acute-care facility with multiple outpatient behavioral health service locations, The Manor at Seneca Hill, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, and Springside at Seneca Hill, an independent retirement community. The health system also operates Oswego Health Home Care, the only hospital-based certified home healthcare agency in the County as well as two outpatient centers, including the Fulton Medical Center, offering urgent care, lab, medical imaging, physical therapy, and occupational health services; and the Central Square Medical Center, offering urgent care, lab, medical imaging, and physical therapy services. In addition, Oswego Health includes the Oswego Health captive professional corporation, Physician Care P.C., providing physician services in orthopedics, cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, breast care, audiology, general surgery, bariatrics, and primary care.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Oswego Health is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment-related matters, without regard to race (including traits historically associated with race), creed, color, religion, sex/gender, national origin, age, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy-related condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, citizenship status, ancestry, arrest/conviction record, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, reproductive health decision making, relationship or association with a member of a protected category, or any other legally protected characteristic. Decisions affecting your position including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, training, tuition assistance, leaves of absence, disciplinary action, layoff/recall, and terminations will be made in accordance with this policy.