Wellpath
Location
Santa Cruz, CA | United States
Job description
• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities
Join us and find a career that supports:
• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training
Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.
If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.
The Mental Health Clinician is a Masters prepared clinician (LMFT/LCSW/LPCC) who works under the supervision of the Health Services Administrator (HSA), Program Manager (PM), or higher licensed health professional. They play a key role in the clinical and educational training component of the Restoration of Competency (RTC) program, utilizing cognitive remedial or restructuring techniques to teach legal concepts and help inmates understand their own legal situations in compliance with applicable standards and regulations. Additionally, the Clinician provides therapeutic support to patients, fostering mental stability in relation to competency restoration.
• Adhere strictly to DSH and corporate policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with all guidelines and regulations related to the duties of the Clinician/Competency Trainer.
• Conduct daily individual sick calls, as well as psycho-educational groups for mentally ill and IST patients, following the Department of State Hospital policies for admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Collaborate with the Sheriff's Office and foster positive relationships between staff and Sheriff's Deputies/Officers, while actively participating in the development and updating of treatment plans in multi-disciplinary Treatment Team meetings.
• Provide individual clinical contacts with patients to support psycho-social progress related to competency, utilizing various techniques such as cognitive-behavioral approaches and anger/anxiety management.
• Coordinate discharge planning and aftercare plans, document all findings in patients' records, and facilitate group training and education sessions using creative and multimodal formats, including discussions, readings, videos, and role-playing.
Education
Experience
Licenses/Certifications
Compliance
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.
Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.
Job tags
Salary
