Licensed Mental Health Counselor (per diem)

Company: Southcoast Hospitals Group
Location: Fall River
Posted on: January 14, 2020

Job Description:

At Southcoast Health, we acknowledge that our employees are what helps make us great!# Hours : Per Diem # We are searching for a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) to perform diversified duties both within and in support of the SHG Care Coordination functions. Provide case management services independently including but not limited to application of clinical diagnostic, assessment or treatment knowledge or skills. Identify and address psychosocial factors that may impede the patients# ability to optimize benefit from the health care delivery experience. Intervene as necessary preventing over and underutilization of health care resources. Actively participate in discharge planning to assure timely individual patient discharges within the scope of position responsibilities. Responsibility may include on call/shift coverage and holiday coverage.# Provide clinical supervision of other Social Work Counselor professionals, various affiliating students, etc., where scope of supervisory responsibility is limited to direction, guidance, explanation, etc. Duties involve supervisory responsibility for no more than 1 or 2 personnel at any one time. # Education and/or Experience Requirements: A Master#s Degree in Psychology from an accredited college or university is required. Current Massachusetts Mental Health Counselor license at a minimum of a LMHC is required. Over three (3) years of related work experience including one (1) year experience in a medically oriented setting is required. Computer skills are essential. Southcoast Health is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. For more than 100 years, we have provided quality, patient-focused care in a stet-of-the-art environment. By uniting a single purpose and building an integrated system of services and resources, we have become one of the largest and fastest-growing health systems in Massachusetts. # Together We Are More. 311 years of hospitals# collective continuous services 920 + square miles of service across southern MA + East bay, RI 7400 + employees doctors, nurses, professionals in IT, Finance, HR, and more Top 5% of USA hospitals for 2017 clinical performance by Healthgrades # Are you ready to make a difference in your community? Join us in our strive to be more than medicine!# JobSummaryDisplay: At Southcoast Health, we acknowledge that our employees are what helps make us great! Hours : Per Diem We are searching for a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) to perform diversified duties both within and in support of the SHG Care Coordination functions. Provide case management services independently including but not limited to application of clinical diagnostic, assessment or treatment knowledge or skills. Identify and address psychosocial factors that may impede the patients ' ability to optimize benefit from the health care delivery experience. Intervene as necessary preventing over and underutilization of health care resources. Actively participate in discharge planning to assure timely individual patient discharges within the scope of position responsibilities. Responsibility may include on call/shift coverage and holiday coverage. Provide clinical supervision of other Social Work Counselor professionals, various affiliating students, etc., where scope of supervisory responsibility is limited to direction, guidance, explanation, etc. Duties involve supervisory responsibility for no more than 1 or 2 personnel at any one time. Education and/or Experience Requirements: * A Master's Degree in Psychology from an accredited college or university is required. * Current Massachusetts Mental Health Counselor license at a minimum of a LMHC is required. * Over three (3) years of related work experience including one (1) year experience in a medically oriented setting is required. * Computer skills are essential. Southcoast Health is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. For more than 100 years, we have provided quality, patient-focused care in a stet-of-the-art environment. By uniting a single purpose and building an integrated system of services and resources, we have become one of the largest and fastest-growing health systems in Massachusetts. Together We Are More. * 311 years of hospitals' collective continuous services * 920 + square miles of service across southern MA + East bay, RI * 7400 + employees doctors, nurses, professionals in IT, Finance, HR, and more * Top 5% of USA hospitals for 2017 clinical performance by Healthgrades Are you ready to make a difference in your community? Join us in our strive to be more than medicine!

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