Senior Behavioral Health Therapist, Day Shift, Behavioral Health

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AHC SGMC Behavioral Health

If you are a current Adventist HealthCare employee, please click this link to apply through your Workday account.   Shady Grove Medical Center seeks to hire an experienced Senior Behavioral Health Therapist for our Behavioral Health Department who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing. ** Qualified candidates will be eligible for a $10,000 sign-on bonus. (*Current AHC employees not eligible – see below under additional details.)

As a Senior Behavioral Health Therapist you will: • Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality therapeutic care that is appropriate to the age, diagnoses, developmental state, and mental status of the clients that are assigned to their specific unit/department • Initiate and implement complete, comprehensive psychosocial assessments • Provide individual, group, and family therapies to clients and their families • Participate in and interdisciplinary treatment team to propose and develop strategies and interventions that would promote excellent therapeutic outcomes • Assist clients in their development of self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-actualization through a multitude of traditional and adjunctive therapeutic services • Document services provided and disseminates information/reports to community referral sources and agencies, i.e., DJS, DSS, HHS, APS, CPS, LCC, etc. • Co-Ordinate with the interdisciplinary team, referral sources, and community resources aftercare and supportive services to ensure a successful discharge planning process • Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to diffuse psychotic and/or behavioral crises to ensure client, unit, and staff safety an stability B • Assess and intervenes in cases of suspected/disclosed child/adult neglect/abuse issues • Promote positive patient-family-community relations • Supervise interns psychotherapeutic treatment of patients and their families including individual therapy, parent collateral work, family therapy, couples therapy, and group therapy. Monitors progress of patients in treatment and formally reviews treatment plan and goals regularly. Supervises interns consultation with other professionals working with the client to assure coordinated and comprehensive service delivery. • Supervise interns documentation, including maintenance of charts in a complete, timely and legible form, including parent information forms, consent forms, data collection forms, progress notes, and treatment plans and goals as required by state DHMH

Qualifications include: • Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited program required. • Minimum of 2 years of clinical social work experience, preferably in medical or behavioral health settings. • Current licensure as LCSW-C, LCPC, or equivalent. • Proficiency in conducting substance use assessments with ASAM criteria. • Experience facilitating group therapy with adults and/or adolescents preferred. • Strong skills in assessment, treatment planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration • Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required Work Schedule: • Employment Type:  Full-time

• Hours per Week:  40 hrs/week

• Typical Daily Schedule:  Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

• Shift Type:  Day Shift

• Weekend Requirements:  Weekend rotation requirement

• Holiday Requirements: Holiday rotation requirement

• Shift Differential Eligible:   Yes

$10,000 sign-on bonus over 3 installments (paid at 90 days, 1 year & 2 years of hire date) *Current AHC employees are  not  eligible for a sign-on bonus who are transferring from one entity to another and/or transferring within their entity. Employees that have terminated their employment with AHC are not eligible for a sign-on bonus prior to six months of returning if hired for a position offering a sign-on bonus.

Pay Range: $29.08 - $48.25 If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as: United States of America (Non-Exempt) At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you. We do this by offering: • Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period 

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

Join the Adventist HealthCare team today, apply now to be considered!

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