Psychologist

Job Description

Description Summary:

In this fast-paced environment, this role focuses on individual, family and group psychotherapy and alcohol and drug counseling with children and/or adults. The position includes initial behavioral health/Substance abuse in takes and evaluations, management and coordination with community agencies, and may clinically supervise unlicensed staff or students. The position will be focused on Key Populations in the communities we serve including individuals who experience homelessness or housing insecurity, individuals living with HIV or at high risk for HIV, individuals receiving Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and the LGBTQ population.

Essential Functions:

Clinical

Completes intakes for behavioral health and/or Substance Use; provide confidential, individual, group and family psychotherapy with children and/or adults in an outpatient clinic.

Practices as part of an interdisciplinary, inter-professional team, accepting “warm hand offs” from primary care providers and other members of the health care team as well as reaching in to the patient population to identify patients potentially in need of behavioral health services as flagged by the BH clinical dashboard.

Consults with providers within and outside the agency regarding the treatment plan and progress of the patients.

Coordinates as needed with psychiatric consultants for diagnostic and consultative needs; refers as necessary for medication management.

Attends clinical Team Meetings as assigned and Component Meetings.

Attends clinical supervision.

Meets productivity standards as outlined annually during employees performance appraisal review with a focus on quality clinical care.

Meets Meaningful Use standards.

Manages EHR

Administrative

Completes all documentation required by state regulations, and FHC Behavioral Health department by laws in a timely manner, included by not limited to intake, prior authorization request, progress notes, treatment plan documentation, and discharge.

Completes and locks all treatment notes no later than the end of the next business day.

Completes reports as required for outside agencies such as HHS, Family Relations, probation, and others with appropriate releases signed by clients.

Participates as a member of agency wide committees as assigned.

Non-essential Functions: Assist with any other duties as assigned. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Position requirements / Job qualifications:

Education and Training:

Ph.D. /Psy.D, LCSW, LPC or LMFT degree. Licensed/Certified to practice in the U.S. Virgin Islands – Required. Current CPR (BLS) certificate

Minimum of two years of experience with behavioral health and substance abuse counseling in an outpatient setting including experience with adults and children.

Specifically, this role requires two solid years of working directly with our patient population in clinical therapy and substance abuse counseling: Assessment, demonstration of DSM-V recognition and expertise, implementation of evidence-based practice for individual, group, and family interventions.

Theoretical orientation consistent with brief, problem-focused therapy.

Reliable access to an automobile or reliable access to transportation to outside agency consults, meetings and home visits.

Experience with key populations like people living with HIV/Hepatitis C, the homeless population, individuals experience substance use disorders or on medication assisted treatment, the LGBTQ population and other at risk populations.

Written and oral bilingual fluency in language spoken by patient population (for example, English/Spanish) preferred.

Skills and abilities: (language, mathematical, reasoning, etc.)

Physical/mental demands: The physical/mental demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, balance on two feet, stoop, kneel, crouch, or reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Mental demands include the ability to learn, adapt to changes, and become proficient quickly, pay close attention to details, courteous and professional demeanor, ability to deal with stress of meeting deadlines and adhere to company policies and procedures.)

Full-time