Northern Light Acadia Hospital 

Department: Psychiatric Unit - PEDIATRIC 

Position is located: Acadia

Work Type: Per Diem, Part Time, Full Time

Work Schedule: All Available

The Inpatient Psychiatric Clinician is licensed as an LMSW-CC, LCPC-C, LCSW, LCPC or LMFT who provides specialized evidence-based therapeutic care to adult and/or pediatric populations with mental health, substance use and co-occurring disorders. The Clinician conducts evaluations, risk assessment, psychosocial evaluations, creates recovery-oriented treatment plans with patients and their families and provides psychotherapy within individual, group, and family modalities. As direct care providers they function as skilled advocates, brokers, educators, and treatment specialists, are familiar with regional social service provider systems and adept at assisting patients in linking with step down treatment services during discharge planning. They rely on more than one theoretical framework in providing direct patient care and clinical formulations to acute-care populations, are proficient at articulating case reviews and creating documentation that reflects both active treatment provisions and patient responses to care.

New Graduates encouraged to apply

This is an excellent position for those awaiting clinical licensure but want to start working in a clinical position. Graduate Orientee will transition into a Clinician position once obtaining professional licensure. This position is on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit where there is an opportunity for daily clinical growth and learning as well as direct therapeutic treatment of patients with a wide variety of presentations. The Graduate orientee Clinician is an integral member of the interdisciplinary team and works under the direction of the Clinical Supervisor. The Graduate Orientee will transition into a Clinician position once obtaining professional licensure. The Graduate Orientee is responsible for the delivery of direct care to patients, individually or in groups across the life span. The Graduate Orientee functions as a clinical leader, therapist, educator, advocate, and liaison to the community and treatment team, discharge planner and case manager. Further, the Graduate Orientee participates in program development, quality assurance and the maintenance of the therapeutic environment in the facility as well as utilizing critical thinking skills to complete psychosocial assessments, mental status exams, case formulations, and the evaluation and implementation of treatment plans.

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Assists patients with crisis management, de-escalation, and motivational enhancement therapy to increase treatment readiness and engagement in care. • Provides crisis management targeting acute symptoms. •Works within the interdisciplinary team to develop specific strategies to decrease patient and unit acuity. • Trains staff on crisis intervention techniques as needed. • Develops individualized care plans for patients that the interdisciplinary team works to implement. • Completes comprehensive assessments by collecting data which enables the identification of potential therapeutic targets for active treatment. • Develops initial master treatment plan and updates in collaboration with the patient and within established timeframes that identify effective interventions to achieve outcomes, and accommodate the patient’s developmental level, motivation, health/spiritual beliefs, functional capabilities, and strengths. • Implements individual, group and family therapy interventions that are evidence-based and are consistent with service plan and developmental level and needs of patient. • Modifies interventions based on continual assessment of the patient’s response to treatment. • Articulates anticipated treatment outcomes that are patient-centered, evidence based, therapeutically sound, realistic, attainable, and measurable. • Completes documentation that reflects evidence-based practices, active patient involvement in care, attention to objective outcomes and identification of barriers to treatment progress. • Demonstrates reflective/active listening, feedback, summarizing, reframing, empathy, support, problem solving, coaching, and psycho-education skills. • Maintains and abides by ethical standards set forth by the facility and Maine State Licensing Boards. • Maintains requirements of licensure. • Fosters the development of teamwork within department as well as across departments and with outside providers. • Gives and receives critical feedback on effectiveness of clinical interventions through regular peer review, scheduled staff meetings and supervisions. • Utilizes time effectively and can critically evaluate time management relevant to the effective operation of respective department. • Maintains a safe environment complying with NLH policies and procedures, reports and directly addresses environmental hazards and violations of patient safety policy and/or protocol when involved or observed. • Completes documentation within required timeframes.

Required

Master’s degree

Licensure

Licensed as a Licensed Master Social Worker Conditional (Clinical) (LMSW-CC), Licensed Professional Counselor Conditional (LCPC-C), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LCPC) or Licensed Marital and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the State of Maine