Licensed Behavioral Health Therapist
Description
Licensed Behavioral Health Therapist
Cumberland Family Medical Center (CFMC) operates a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) offering a wide range of health and mental health services at multiple sites throughout Kentucky. We seek employees who support our mission and who actively contribute to our service-driven environment by enhancing the patient experience and improve productivity. CFMC offers compassionate care, uncompromising service and clinical excellence. We offer a collaborative environment with excellent benefits, wage/salary commensurate with experience and relevant work experience.
The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments and behavioral health services to support patients in achieving improved health, well-being, and independence. Through assessment, clinical intervention, education, and coordination with healthcare and community resources, this position empowers patients to take an active role in directing their own healthcare experiences. The clinician promotes respect for individuality, personal choice, and patient independence while fostering an inclusive, patient-centered approach that recognizes and honors the cultural, religious, and ethnic differences of patients and their families. Behavioral health services also enhance the medical team's understanding of each patient's beliefs, behaviors, and potential barriers to care, supporting a collaborative approach to addressing the patient's overall health needs.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Uses age appropriate assessment and intervention skills. Able to use a range of interventions, depending upon the needs of the patient/family.
- Assists members in developing cost effective, appropriate health care plans through optimizing the member's personal resources as well as community resources and programs.
- Promotes multi-disciplinary care that is patient-centered and considers all aspects of members' personal, psychological, economic, and cultural needs.
- Maintains thorough knowledge of CFMC services/benefits, public/private community resources, as well as federal/state laws which effect health care planning.
- Completes required documentation of services and plan of care per policy.
- Participates in program development, orientation, and educational activities which further members' capacity to better direct their own health care experience.
- Other duties as assigned.