Behavioral Health Clinician - Weekend Program

This position is responsible for working 24 hours weekly, 8 hours on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Essential Functions

• Utilizes resources to meet patient care needs by collaborating with appropriate guardians and community agencies.
• Assesses patients' problems, needs, and level of functioning.
• Writes appropriate treatment plans according to patient diagnosis, age, and clinical presentation.
• Provides various treatment modalities and theoretical applications based on current clinical standards.
• Assists individual, groups, and families through the therapeutic relationship; evaluates and treats mental disorders and other conditions through the use of a combination of psychotherapeutic techniques and human development principles.
• Establishes and conducts appropriate interventions/treatment. Writes appropriate discharge plans based on individual needs of client and follows through with termination process.
• Provides patient care according to established policies/procedures and professional standards of care.
• Designs, plans, and implements effective patient education.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates patient care according to identified needs and managers clients in crisis.
• Provides accurate and consistent documentation of patient care/response in the medical record.
• Presents cases in clinical team members meetings in a clear, concise, and clinically relevant manner.
• Completes all assessments within facility-established timeframes. Coordinates discharge planning and of care for next provider.

Physical Requirements

Works in patient care areas including hospital units, emergency room, individual offices and conference areas with exposure to potentially combative and hostile patients. Work requires frequent moving from one area to another and coordinating and communicating with other team members in various disciplines and agencies.

Master's degree in a relevant human services field such as Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or Marriage and Family Therapy from an accredited school of graduate education required. Dependent on program must be license-eligible and actively seeking appropriate licensure to practice counseling in the state of which one performs work. Clinical experience preferred. CPI and BLS HCP certification from AHA required within 90 days of hire if working in an inpatient psychiatric setting, Psychiatric Emergency Department or the Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program. Must have good therapeutic communication skills.

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.