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Denver Springs Lead Therapist - Inpatient in Englewood, Colorado
Overview
Lead Therapist - Inpatient Setting Compensation: $30.00-$35.00/hr LSW, CSW, LPCC, LPC, MFTC, LMFT, ADDC, or ACD Required
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.
Denver Springs is a 96-bed behavioral hospital located in Englewood, CO. The hospital offers inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment to adults, adolescents and their families. At Denver Springs we are dedicated to Changing People's Lives.
As a Lead Therapist, you will be a member of the clinical services team at Denver Springs. Our team drives a "Clinical First" attitude to help fulfill our mission of "Changing People's Lives". The role 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. Therapist counsels patients individually or through group education regarding psychological, emotional, or substance abuse problems using evaluative techniques and develops and implements therapeutic treatment. Therapist provides education, social work services, basic consultation, and crisis intervention. Therapist provides referrals to patients for aftercare. 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. Lead Therapist will assist with monitoring and coaching relating to accurate and timely completion of documentation and assists with coordinating coverage of shifts. Lead Therapist will help to disseminate information from the DCS and/or other management to therapists when assigned as needed.
Position Details
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 stakehol 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 meets the clients after care 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. Qualifications
Requirements: Master's Degree in Social Work or Counseling or relevant licensure in state of practice LSW, CSW, LPCC, LPC, MFTC, LMFT, ADDC, or ACD Required CPR and CPI Certification within 30 day of employment and prior to patient contact. Prior work with psychiatric and chemical dependency patients.
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled
Springstone, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.