Clinical Therapist - Psychiatry Department
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Location
Type, TX | United States
Job description
JOB SUMMARY:
The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and/or Licensed Professional Counselor works under minimal supervision to provide diagnosis and psychotherapy for patients with serious mental illness in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinical environment. The ideal applicant diagnosis experience may include but is not limited to the following:
- Addiction
- Depression
- Anxiety therapy
Work from home (WFH): This is a hybrid position. The LCSW will work in office x3 days per week and x2 days at home.
Shift: Flex, 8-hour days
Why UT Southwestern?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. At UT Southwestern, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development that align with your future goals and help to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more that are all available on the day you start work. UT Southwestern is honored to be a Veteran Friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you’ve made to our country. We’re proud to support your next mission. Ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 10 National Employers, we invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth. The #1 Best Hospital in DFW | UT Southwestern Medical Center (utswmed.org)
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EXPERIENCE:
REQUIRED:
- Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling, or other related field
- Current valid license by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners as Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT)
- At least 3 years experience working face to face with patients required.
Job Duties
- Provides comprehensive mental health intake evaluations that document patients’ relevant personal and medical history, as well as, primary symptoms and presumptive diagnosis.
- Uses information obtained in these evaluations to make appropriate treatment recommendations to patients based on their needs and the availability of services in the clinic or community.
- Documentation of evaluations is timely and complete and allows other providers in the clinic to have a clear sense of the patient’s needs and clinical presentation.
- Provides individual and/or group psychotherapy intervention to assigned patients at a level consistent with the standards of care in the clinic.
- Therapy practice is evidence-based whenever possible, time-limited, and responsive to patients needs while maintaining a strategy for the course of treatment.
- Therapy intervention is tailored to the needs of the patient both in content and in length of treatment. Documentation of therapy work is timely, complete and meets compliance standards for billing encounters.
- Provides referrals to care as needed based on evaluation of patient needs. Initiates referrals, coordinates services and identify resources to meet patient needs.
- Works closely with clinic leadership team to identify, develop and implement workflows and programs that enhance utilization of clinic services and patient centered care.
- Provides independent evaluation, diagnostic clarity and psychotherapy treatment for complex and time-sensitive patient management. Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Work requires ability to develop internal systems, create credibility with physicians, and develop relationships and credibility with various community resources.
- Work requires internal contact to refer patients as necessary to various departments. Work requires frequent external contact with home health agencies, hospices, and any specialty society/resource available within community to assists patients. Work requires responsibility for developing and recommending policies regarding social worker referrals, support groups, etc.
- Work requires exercise of considerable judgment in interpretation of policies and the application of procedures, techniques, and practices to work problems.
- Work requires personal contact with community social service agencies or patients and their families in the resolution of problems of non-routine, non-recurring nature.
Working Conditions
Work is performed in a clinical or office setting. This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit:
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