IOP-PHP Clinician Part Time

This position is responsible for providing appropriate specialty mental health services to adults enrolled in Casa de Amparo’s combined Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP). Provides assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, rehabilitation, crisis intervention, case management, therapeutic milieu support, discharge planning, and collaborative treatment planning within the agency and in cooperation with other providers and community partners.

MAJOR TASKS:

1. Provide comprehensive therapeutic services including assessments, treatment and care planning, progress notes, transition of care documentation, discharge planning, and other required contract documentation.

1. Provide individual, group, and family therapy, rehabilitation, crisis intervention, case management, collateral services, and therapeutic milieu services as appropriate.

1. Assess client needs, strengths, symptoms, risks, level of functioning, diagnosis, treatment needs, and readiness for transition to a lower level of care.

1. Develop and update client treatment and care plans in accordance with medical necessity, client goals, contract requirements, and documentation standards.

1. Lead and participate in skill building groups, process groups, adjunctive therapeutic activities, community/milieu meetings, and structured therapeutic programming.

1. Support a therapeutic milieu that teaches, models, and reinforces constructive interaction, symptom reduction strategies, adaptive behaviors, and self-management skills.

1. Provide therapeutic services that are knowledgeable and respectful of differing cultures and the norms that exist within various cultures.

1. Consult with the Program Manager, Chief Programs Officer, Consulting Psychiatrist, and other clinical team members regarding assessment, treatment, risk, medication-related concerns, and discharge planning.

1. Collaborate with County representatives, outpatient providers, hospitals, crisis programs, community-based providers, families/support systems, and other partners as appropriate and authorized.

1. Participate in Treatment Team meetings, staff meetings, utilization management activities, case consultation, group supervision, and in-service trainings as required.

1. Assist with crisis assessment, safety planning, behavioral interventions, and linkage to higher level of care when clinically indicated.

1. Begin discharge planning at admission and support warm handoffs to outpatient behavioral health providers and other lower levels of care.

1. Maintain contract productivity, documentation, billing, authorization, and timeliness standards.

1. Provide services to clients not on the regularly assigned caseload, as needed and assigned, and support the program when other clinicians have time off.

1. Perform other tasks as assigned.