Mental Health Clinician
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- Limon, CO
- $42.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
Schedule Details:
- Full-time, 4/10s or 5/8s within Mon-Fri
- Develop Mental Health treatment plans to serve as the basis for treatment.
- Provide individual and group therapy.
- Perform routine mental health assessments and interviews to determine progress.
- Update diagnosis and psychiatric needs levels.
- Refer inmates to psychology for more complex psychological assessment.
- Provide information to psychiatry to include client history, previous diagnoses, and alternative treatment available.
- Assures both emergency and non-emergency transfer for inmates experiencing acute mental health crisis.
- Renders clinical direction to non-clinical staff in mental health care and treatment of inmates.
- Assures continuity of care for inmates by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for transition to receiving units, facilities, or agencies.
- Applicant must be licensed and have one year of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
- Applicant must have one (1) year of work experience in mental health with an approved license.
- Mental health counseling with the inmate population and crisis intervention experience;
- Experience conducting suicide risk assessments;
- Experience working as a member of a multidisciplinary team.