Licensed Mental Health Professional

2 days ago

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Wellpath Full time
Job Summary

Wellpath is seeking a Licensed Mental Health Professional to provide high-quality mental health services to inmates in a correctional facility. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related field, and at least one year of experience in a mental health treatment program, preferably in a correctional or hospital setting.

Key Responsibilities
  • Triage and conduct intake evaluations and assessments for patients admitted to outpatient housing units and make recommendations to healthcare staff regarding the direction or required level of care.
  • Refer inmates eligible for involuntary treatment to the appropriate healthcare provider for evaluation.
  • Recommend special housing or special watch and observation to security staff based on clinical findings.
  • Identify and conduct other essential treatment services, such as psychoeducational groups, substance abuse counseling, pre-release planning, and transitional groups.
  • Develop treatment plans to address the full scope of services clinically indicated for patients, including group and individual therapy.
  • Assess for suicide risk and provide suicide prevention interventions and management techniques.
  • Conduct daily rounds and evaluations to assess the treatment needs of inmates requesting mental health services.
  • Address sick call requests and evaluate patients by obtaining biopsychosocial history and consulting with other healthcare providers.
  • Refer to prescribing providers when clinically indicated and coordinate closely with the Prescriber to ensure timely evaluation or re-evaluation for medication.
  • Encourage medication adherence and identify when patients are non-adherent to the prescribed regimen.
  • Provide consultation to security and healthcare staff regarding inmates' behaviors, safety concerns, or other mental health concerns.
  • Provide linkage and/or discharge planning services when necessary or appropriate.
  • Respond to and provide mental health crisis intervention in psychiatric emergencies.
  • Oversee the clinical needs of patients on their caseload.
  • Participate in treatment programming and planning discussions of challenging cases and follow-up to monitor compliance and outcomes.
  • Attend regular treatment team multidisciplinary meetings, classification meetings, or other required administrative meetings.
  • Participate in CQI and QA studies and group sessions.
  • Monitor the clinical condition and treatment needs of Special Needs populations in accordance with local policy and state and federal regulations.
  • Work effectively with all staff, including security, healthcare, ancillary, and administrative staff.
  • Provide on-call services as needed.
  • Provide staff training on relevant mental health topics, such as signs and symptoms of mental illness, management of mentally ill inmates, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and related topics.
  • Document all findings in the patient's health record, providing written summaries of history, diagnosis, and treatment course.
  • Provide services in compliance with Facility and company Safety and Mental Health Policies and Procedures.
  • Participate in Peer Review activities and staff training.
  • May assist in the job shadow portion of the interview process of potential staff.
  • May assist in orientation and training of new employees.
  • Responsible for the performance evaluations and successful training of direct reports.
Requirements
  • Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related field.
  • At least one year of experience in a mental health treatment program, preferably in a correctional or hospital setting.
  • Unrestricted, current license in the State of practice.
  • Excellent knowledge and use of computer and technology, including Microsoft Office products.
  • Strong ability to multi-task.
  • Positive attitude with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Identifies problems in a timely manner and skillfully gathers and analyzes information, then practically and creatively resolves problems.
  • Maintains a professional attitude while communicating and speaking with colleagues, patients, and clients at all times, maintains confidentiality, remains open to others' ideas, and exhibits willingness to try new things.
  • Speaks effectively and professionally, speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, and demonstrates group presentation skills.
  • Develops professionally written communications, edits work for spelling and grammar, presents numerical data effectively, and can read and interpret written information.
  • Prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently, and develops realistic action plans.
  • Demonstrates accuracy, thoroughness, and monitors own work to ensure quality.
  • Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and can deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
  • Follows through with commitments, is consistently at work and on time, can be counted on by others, is continuously productive, follows instructions, responds to management direction, and solicits feedback to improve performance.
  • Promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures, uses equipment and materials properly, and takes necessary action to report incidents.
  • Compliant with job-applicable license(s) and/or certification(s), attends staff meetings and all required monthly, quarterly, and annual trainings.
Work Environment

This job primarily operates independently in a facility. The employee is exposed to some level of risk and/or harm by inmates, including exposure to blood-borne pathogens. The employee is expected to work in accordance with all security rules and regulations to minimize the risk of danger and/or harm to themselves or other employees.

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