Mental Health Thep Acute LCSW

Company: Orlando Health
Location: Orlando
Posted on: May 26, 2023

Job Description:

Position Summary
For over 100 years, Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) has provided the most advanced options available for surgical, medical, rehabilitative, and emergency care, including serving as Central Florida's only Level 1 Trauma Center. Orlando Health ORMC serves as the organization's flagship hospital, meeting the growing healthcare needs of the region.
Position Summary:
Mental Health Therapist Acute LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) works with patients to promote optimum mental and emotional health.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:

• Develop comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressions responsive to age-appropriate patients/family needs and concerns.
• Differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
• Diagnose biopsychosocial functioning, disability, and impairment for the age-appropriate patient/family.
• Develop treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven, and outcomes focused with the patient/family and healthcare team.
• Develop an effective working relationship with patient/family to engage, collaborate, advocate and problem solve to support and enhance their mental health strengths and functioning ability.
• Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions included but are not limited to crisis intervention, solution focused therapy, individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy, grief, and bereavement counseling, play therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy and mental status exams.
• Initiate Baker Act.
• Facilitate the Marchman Act when appropriate.
• Facilitates patient's psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to next level of care.
• Provide mental health education, information, consultation, and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the healthcare team members and colleagues within the department.
• Demonstrate initiative and leadership in developing mental health services which respond to patient care demands.
• Identify practice based on continuous quality improvement.
• Maintain an up-to-date, accurate and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients' medical chart, which does not violate confidentiality.
• Meet department/hospital expectations of growth goals set forth by coaching plans.
• Ability to perform independently and provide clinical practice in a health care setting.
• Ability to supervise and participate in teaching within the department, hospital, and community.
• When appropriate for the clinical setting, must have subspecialty credentialing i.e., sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT
• Care coordination responsibilities and related functions as appropriate for your patient population.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
  Qualifications
  Education/Training:
  Master's degree from an accredited school of Social Work is required.
  Licensure/Certification:
  Maintains Florida state (Chapter 491 Florida Statutes) licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
  Experience:
  Two (2) years of direct clinical experience preferable in a health or mental health setting with an emphasis on population to be served in the assigned area.

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