This Master’s level behavioral health professional will provide mental health and social evaluations for a diverse group of clients.

Major responsibilities include:

• Provide crisis evaluations, develop treatment plans, and coordinate care with psychiatrists for patients experiencing emotional distress with chronic care conditions, serious mental illness, psychiatric disorders, co-varying disorders and urgent mental health needs
• Coordinate scheduling for follow-up with the psychiatrist and with other clinical teams to provide efficient utilization of resources
• Participate in on-going communication with the other clinical teams and attend staff meetings for case reviews as requested
• Preference given to individuals with broad based work experiences, direct mental health services provision, crisis work, and leadership experience, treatment planning
• Must be skilled in psychological assessment of individuals in various stages of psychological distress
• Must be familiar with mental status exams and mental health diagnoses that correspond to ICD-9DM and DSM-IV TR manuals
• Must be organized in functioning independently, work well with a multidisciplinary team, efficient in data gathering, good communication skills in order to effectively collect and transmit data between intrinsic and external sources
• Articulate in presenting relevant findings that pertain to mental status and patient risk
• Able to coordinate large amounts of information to prioritize findings relevant to treatment decisions and treatment plan development