Remote Mental Health Therapist, Crisis

Summary

Join our team at Imagine Pediatrics as we reimagine pediatric healthcare and create more safe days for children at home. We're hiring a licensed child & adolescent clinical therapist (LCSW) to support our Behavioral Health Acute Care Team.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Counseling or related area
• Must be licensed to independently practice in New York (LCSW), openness to cross-state licensure
• 1-2 years’ experience post independent licensure in a behavioral health setting
• 1 year of crisis experience
• Certification in evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Experience working with high-risk behavioral health populations including but not limited to suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, severe persistent mental illness (SPMI), children in the foster care system, elopement, and incarceration
• Strong preference and comfortability conducting triage assessments, crisis interventions, and administering screeners such as the PHQ9 and Columbia Suicide Screener
• Experience working with children, adolescents, and their caregivers inclusive of external systems involved in a minor’s care
• Experience working with a diverse population or demographics
• Telehealth experience
• Strong communication, documentation, and diagnostic skills
• Familiarity with technology, Microsoft suites, and documenting in electronic health records

Responsibilities

• Assess and provide brief targeted therapeutic interventions for clients via teletherapy services for an acute pediatric population
• Conduct crisis assessment and intervention to address needs of a patient experiencing a psychiatric emergency
• Treat patients with diagnoses including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, self-harm, incarceration, elopement, and beginning to develop psychotic symptoms
• Ability to make critical decisions in line with clinical expertise to implement least restrictive safety measures
• Assess and safety plan critically for the least restrictive environment necessary to ensure safety
• Experience referring patient to emergency resources when/if necessary
• Conduct psychosocial assessment for follow up hospitalization program within 7 days of hospital discharge date and 30 day follow up care for patients experiencing moderate to sever mood disorder symptoms
• Meet regularly with behavioral health manager to discuss caseload progression, application of brief intervention model, discharge planning, and to assign new patients
• Work collaboratively with crisis team members on care coordination for various cases

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA; Company-funded HSA
• 401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one
• Employer-paid short and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• 20 days PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
• Paid new parent leave