Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Therapist

Monday-Friday

Cottonwood Springs, part of Lifepoint Behavioral Health, nationally known healthcare organization with diversified delivery network with facilities from coast to coast, seeks passionate, patient-centric, and goal-oriented team members to join our team. We specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including crisis stabilization, inpatient care, and outpatient treatment for acute mental health and substance use treatment. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care to decrease suicide rates, decrease addiction-related deaths, reverse the decline in life expectancy, and improve productivity in the communities we serve. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, and flexible scheduling so you can focus on what matters–providing quality patient care. Join our team in Olathe, Kansas, to build a career that touches lives.

Members of our team Enjoy:

Working with a highly engaged staff
Healthy staffing levels
Flexible scheduling
Career growth
Competitive compensation
Health, Vision, Dental, 401k, and Paid Time Off
UKG Wallet – We’ve partnered with UKG Wallet, a voluntary Earned Wage Access benefit, to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.

Cottonwood Springs is a 72-bed behavioral hospital located in Olathe, KS. The Therapist performs social services functions to include assisting patients in meeting their bio-psychosocial needs while enabling them access to therapeutic treatment skills to achieve their optimal level of emotional health. The Therapist counsels patients individually or through group education regarding psychological, emotional, or substance abuse problems using evaluative techniques and develops and implements therapeutic treatment. The Therapist provides education, social work services, basic consultation, and crisis intervention. The Therapist provides referrals to patients for aftercare. The Lead Therapist supervises individual and group counseling and oversees responsibility for training new staff to ensure clinical documentation is current and accurate and meets all regulatory and other standards. The Lead Therapist will assist with monitoring and coaching relating to accurate and timely completion of documentation and assists with coordinating coverage of shifts. The Lead Therapist will help to disseminate information from the DCS and/or other management to therapists when assigned as needed.

Responsibilities:

Provide Psychotherapy and counseling therapies to patients suffering from psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. Therapies include group, individual and family.
Ensure accurate and timely patient documentation.
Actively communicates with clients, families, and outside referral sources, functioning within the scope of HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2. Demonstrates proactive communication with those involved with the patient’s treatment, documenting all correspondence held with patients and other stakeholders.
Displays heavy involvement in treatment planning for patients. Works with patient to achieve treatment plan goals and accurately documents progress. Demonstrates initiative to revise the treatment plan to create new goals for patients if appropriate.
Ongoing and consistent collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including physicians, utilization review and nursing staff members. Demonstrates active communication with team members.
Demonstrates the ability to work with the utilization review department. Ensures communication with UR on length of stay and treatment of patients.
Creates thorough discharge plans with clients that meet the clients' aftercare needs. Ensures both patient and appropriate family members or referral sources have appropriate paperwork in a timely manner after discharge to ensure continuum of care.

Requirements:

Master’s Degree in Social Work or Counseling or relevant licensure in state of practice.
Current unencumbered state licensure per state requirements.
CPR and CPI Certification within 30 days of employment and prior to patient contact.
Experience with psychiatric and chemical dependency patients.

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