Job Description

Employment Type: Full time

Shift: Day Shift

Description: At Saint Alphonsus Health System, we are looking for people who are living out their calling. We want you to be passionate about coming to work, and challenged to achieve your potential. Living by these virtues, we pride ourselves on exceptional service and the highest quality of care.

GENERAL SUMMARY AND PURPOSE:

Provide evidence based individual, group, family, and educational services including assessment and psychotherapy. Document clinical and consultative activities in patient electronic medical record. Participates as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team to help assure the most appropriate treatment of patients. Works to develop and promote the programs and objectives of the department.

***The colleague hired into this role would be required to go through the provider credentialing process. Credentialing is an in-depth review process to verify a provider\xe2\x80\x99s qualifications to ensure they can provide care or services to patients for insurance billing purposes. Payer enrollment broadly entails identifying a list of the desired insurers, and providing all necessary provider data (in the format preferred by each unique payer) and can take insurance providers between 90-120 days to complete, if the colleague has not be credentialed already (timeline can be shorter for those who have already gone through the process).

This role is 40 hrs a week (M-F 8-5), no weekends, and will be focused on skills and evidence-based, goal-oriented, short-term psychotherapy (counseling) for patients of all ages.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Idaho.

One to three years of experience in a mental health setting required.

Experience in multiple therapy techniques preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Meets Health System\'s Core Values and Caring Standards including interpersonal communication and professional conduct expectations.

Demonstrates knowledge and skills to competently care for all assigned age groups (Child, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric as applicable).

Conduct evaluation of patients and collaborate with healthcare team members to support the emotional, mental, environmental, bio-psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and/or their family/caregivers, as applicable.

Ability to clearly document at each visit objectives, measurable goals and progress toward goals and identify the expectations of counseling with patients.

Ability to recognize when patient has achieved maximum benefit from therapy and professionally terminate care when patient is not progressing toward goals despite any needed treatment plan modifications or when patient has reached their goals.

Counsel patients and families regarding recommended levels of care, community resources and financial arrangements, as the program defines.

Interventions may include but are not limited to, individual or family counseling, referral to internal and external community resources, crisis intervention, grief counseling, supportive therapy, substance abuse referral, support groups.

Complete all patient care documentation within the standards of the Trinity Health Timely Documentation policy.

Participates in team meetings.

Mentors students during internships, as applicable.

Participates in community meetings, as needed.

All other duties as assigned.

Colleagues of Saint Alphonsus Health System enjoy competitive compensation with a full benefits package and opportunity for growth throughout SAHS and Trinity Health.

Visit www.saintalphonsus.org/careers to learn more about the benefits, culture and career development opportunities available to you at Saint Alphonsus Health System.

Saint Alphonsus and Trinity Health are committed to promoting diversity in its workforce and to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity and respect. We are committed to recruit and retain a diverse staff reflective of the communities we serve. Saint Alphonsus and Trinity Health are equal opportunity employers and prohibit discrimination against any individual with regard to race, color, religion, gender, marital status, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

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