[ref. s56077022] Mental Health Therapist - Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Downtown Orlando
Position Summary:
At Orlando Health Heart and Vascular Institute, our renowned cardiologists, heart and vascular surgeons, and cardiovascular professionals work together to provide award-winning care in 40 specialties, using the latest in diagnostic imaging and treatment options.
Our multidisciplinary team includes more than 70 physicians in 24 locations across Central Florida, spanning Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole, Highlands and Okeechobee counties. As a part of Orlando Health, the Heart and Vascular Institute includes a network of community and specialty hospitals with more than 4,000 providers.
Job Summary
Works with patientsto promote optimum mental and emotional health.
Monday - Friday 8AM - 4:30PM
Location: 1222 S Orange Ave 2^nd fl Orlando Fl, 32806
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions- Develops comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressionsresponsive to age-appropriate patients/family’s needs
- Provides differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
- Diagnoses biopsychosocial functioning, disability, and impairment for the age-appropriate patients/families.
- Develops treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven and outcomes-focused with the
- Develops an effective working relationship with patients/families to engage, collaborate, advocate, and problem-solve in order to
- Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions, included but are not limited to crisis
therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mentalstatus exams.
- Initiates Baker Act.
- Facilitates Marchman Act when appropriate.
- Facilitates patient’s psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to the next level of care.
- Provides mental health education, information, consultation, and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the
- Demonstratesinitiative and leadership in developing mental health servicesthatrespond to patient care demands.
- Identifies practice based on continuous quality improvement.
- Maintains an up-to-date, accurate, and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients’ medical chart, which does not
- Meets department/hospital expectations of growth goalsset forth by coaching plans.
- Performsindependently and provides clinical practice in a health care setting.
- Supervises and participatesin teaching within the department, hospital, and community.
- When appropriate forthe clinicalsetting, hassubspecialty credentialing (i.e.,sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT).
- Coordinates care and related functions appropriate forthe patient population.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
- Maintains and enhances knowledge of human growth and development ofthe neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
- Pursues opportunitiesfor obtaining continuing education asset by department policy.
- Participatesin strengthening the community through local,regional,state, or national activities.
Qualifications:
Education/Training
Master’s degree.
Licensure/Certification- Maintains Florida state (Chapter 491 Florida Statutes) licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
- Handle with Care (HWC) Certification required for Behavioral Health Unit.
Experience
Two (2) years of direct clinical experience, preferably in a health ormental health setting, with an emphasis on the population to be served in the assigned area.