Behavioral Health Clinician - Child and Adolescent CSU- Decatur, GA.

View Point Health Job Title:Behavioral Health ClinicianJob Code: HCP051/Social Worker, Licensed 2Shift: Full-Time 40 hour (M-F with alternating weekends)Job Hours:8:30am-5pm with one day a week from 11am-7:30pmBase Location: Decatur, GA.

Division/Department/Program: Child & Adolescent Crisis Stabilization Unit (C&A CSU) View Point Health Child and Adolescent (C&A) Crisis Stabilization Program is a short-term, 24/7 residential crisis unit located in Decatur, Ga.

The Crisis Stabilization program provides psychiatric crisis intervention and stabilization services to adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 years old.

Under supervision learns to perform psychosocial assessments, treatment planning/monitoring and discharge planning.

Provides counseling/therapy to clients requiring complex intervention.

Performs commitment determinations and/or executes orders of involuntary commitments.

A Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) operates 24 hours/7 days a week (including weekends and holidays) to provide a safe, structured, and locked environment for clients experiencing a mental health crisis.

The services are like residential treatment but provide a higher level of care due to our acuity of the clients who are in crisis.

Our units operate much like a psychiatric hospital.

A client typically stays with us about 30 days to ensure he/she is stable from the prompting event of their crisis prior to discharge.

Clients do not leave the facility during their stay with us.

Duties & Responsibilities: Conducting assessment as well as completes and regularly updates treatment plan.Facilitating and documenting groups.Providing discharge planning.Completes authorizations and re-authorizations within required time frames.Implementing case management/ linking services with community continuum of care.Clinical support based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy.Attend treatment team daily to discuss client progress and 72 hour treatment reviews.Document ongoing client progress.Gathering collateral information from family members.Assisting with visitation as needed.Rotation of evening group and weekend coverage.

Minimum Qualifications: Master's degree in social work and counseling from an accredited college or university and eligibility to be licensed and two (2) years of supervised experience in the area of assignment or two (2) years of experience at the lower level social worker 1 (HCP050) or position equivalent.

Note: Position requires licensure in the state of Georgia as an LMSW, LAPC, LCSW, or LPC Preferred Qualifications: Two (2) or more years of experience working with children and adolescents in an inpatient facility.

Open to unlicensed (with completed masters degree and license eligible), Associate license, or fully licensed applicants.Experience and/or knowledge of DBT preferred.Fully licensed in the state of Georgia as a LPC, LCSW.Interventions, Diagnosing, Treatment PlansExperience with Care Logic or other EMRIs comfortable and proficient with collaborative & concu...