Triage Clinician (LCSW, LPC, LMFT) - Ctr for Youth Outpatient
Company: Hartford HealthCare
Location: Bristol
Posted on: April 24, 2024
Job Description:
Description Job Schedule: Full Time
Standard Hours: 40
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details:
Work where -every moment -matters.
Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work
with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment
matters here. - We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most
comprehensive healthcare network. -
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is a 122-bed, general acute care
community hospital located in Torrington, Connecticut, that serves
as a regional health care resource for the 100,000 residents of
Litchfield County and Northwest Connecticut. - -CHH offers
personalized attention from an expert team of caregivers and
physicians that utilize advanced technology and clinical
partnerships in a convenient, safe and comfortable patient
environment.
Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Clinical Manager of Outpatient
Behavioral Health, performs a wide variety of psychiatric triage,
telephone crisis intervention, assessment of clinical need, and
completion of comprehensive assignments.
Job Responsibilities
Essential functions are those tasks, duties, and responsibilities
that comprise the means of accomplishing the job's purpose and
objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the
performance of the job. They are the major function for which the
person in the job is held accountable. Following are the essential
functions of the job, along with the corresponding performance
standards.
- Receives all telephone referrals from patients and providers.
Provides clinical mental health telephone triage for calls and
assignment to appropriate program and level of care.
- Conducts scheduled and walk-in comprehensive admission
assessments with patients that include the collection of
psychiatric, family, medical, substance abuse, development, social,
work, and school history through face to face clinical interviews
of individuals, families, or guardians. The comprehensive
assessment incorporates results of clinical assessment tools and
prior psychiatric/medical records.
- Preliminary clinical multi-axial diagnostic impressions
utilizing the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Psychiatric
Disorders/ICD at the time of each comprehensive assessment and
treatment plan.
- Dictated/written documentation of comprehensive assessments,
treatment plans, progress notes, and case management collateral
contacts that meet established Joint Commission, state regulatory
and corporate compliance criteria.
- Insure through benefit eligibility verification that behavioral
health managed care insurance for each patient is individually
managed to minimize loss of revenue.
- Utilizing the Meditech System, schedules patients into Meditech
in agreed upon time slots.
- Collects and organizes data as assigned related to Charlotte
Hungerford Process Improvement Measures, patient surveys and
projects assigned by the Clinical Manager or Administrative
Director.
- Appropriately keeps all records organized and maintained as
outlined by Clinical Manager and Administrative Director.
- Provides all assigned clinical and administrative support for
clinicians to meet the case management needs of patients while
assisting clinicians with tasks that enhance clinical
productivity.
- Interacts with patients and their family members present for
outpatient mental health treatment in a manner that engages family
in services and embodies principles of recovery.
- Attends all required safety training programs and can describe
his or her responsibilities related to general safety,
department/service safety, and specific job-related hazards.
Follows the home and community services division exposure control
plans/blood borne and airborne pathogens.
- Promotes effective working relations and works effectively as
part of a department/unit team inter- and intradepartmental to
facilitate the department's/unit's ability to meet its goals and
objectives.
- Displays and upholds CHH core values of excellence, safety,
caring, and integrity. Consistently demonstrates caring for
patients, for one another, and for the organization they are part
of, and contributes to building trust, pride and camaraderie.
Qualifications Qualifications
- Master's degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or
Counseling
- Active LCSW, LPC, or LMFT license required
- Two years clinical experience in a psychiatric setting
As a Hartford HealthCare entity, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
provides eligible employees with an extensive benefits package
consisting of:
- Medical and dental benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Generous paid time off with accrual starting on the date of
hire, including six paid holidays
- Additional voluntary benefits as well as employee discount
programs
- Stress free commute; free parking and no shuttles
- Staff kitchen
- Individual offices for full-time clinicians - - - - - - -
With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers
exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you
are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring
new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education
to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving
organization starts with thriving employees- we provide a
competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance.
Every moment matters. And this is -your moment.
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