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At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, you'll join a team of health advocates who share your passion for helping people. From our financial professionals and IT team members to our RNs and physicians on the front line of care-we work together to help our members achieve their best level of wellness. And you'll be inspired to do the same. Whether you dream of sailing the bay, hitting the slopes in the Sierras, hiking Yosemite, attending the opera, or strolling the vineyards, you'll discover the cultural and recreational diversity that makes Northern California one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work. Northern California's largest health plan, Kaiser Permanente provides you with the resources, scope, and opportunity you need to realize your goals. Come see for yourself.
Interviews, assesses and evaluates patients and families who present themselves for psychiatric dysfunction; provides professional counseling and treatment with the goal of maximizing personal/familial functioning.
Essential Functions:
- Interviews patients and family members to assess nature and extent of psychiatric problem.
- Develops, implements and evaluates treatment approaches for patients and affected family members.
- This may include individual, marital, family, group and intensive therapeutic modalities.
- Maintains confidential individual case summaries.
- Confers and consults with staff physicians regarding patient's progress and treatment; confers with attending physicians regarding hospitalized patients and recommends treatment plans.
- Provides appropriate support to member's family, including explanation of treatment, instructions in how to support treatment and interventions to increase acceptance of and adherence to treatment.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the member's treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources.
- Establishes liaisons to utilize resources of public and private agencies/community organizations to meet member and program needs.
- Participates in departmental program development, implementation and evaluation.
- This position does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.
Secondary Functions:
Provide individual, group, and family interventions with children, adolescents and teens. Provide adult treatment as needed. Provide consultation, liaison, and assessment services to self-referrals, Emergency Department, inpatient hospital, and other professional partners as part of a care provider team. Coordinate psychiatric hospitalizations or discharge plans for outpatient mental health follow-up. Ability to assess for chemical dependency and substance abuse problems. Schedule urgent appointments as needed. Expected to lead cognitive behavioral and/or dialectical behavior therapy group programs along with psycho-education for stated populations. Participation in Department and Service Team meetings as well as educational activities as approved by Supervisor. Maintain current licensing status and complete related continuing education and KP-defined competency training. Eligible to work weekend/ evening clinic hours and to be assigned evening/weekend pager duty pursuant to the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Bilingual Spanish-speaking candidates are encouraged to apply.
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Requirements |
Basic Qualifications:
- Previous post license, paid experience as a member of a psychiatric treatment team in an outpatient setting/program under licensed supervision (usually two (2) to four (4) years).
- Master's degree in applied behavioral science required.
- Current license as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in the State of California.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Knowledge of state regulations with regard to ethics, treatment, patient rights and confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Desirable work experience and training include:
- Experience with Children, Adolescents, Teens Adults and pervasive mentally ill in an individual and group setting.
- Extensive experience in group, individual and family treatment with children, adolescents and teens.
- Assessment skills applicable to mapping out appropriate follow-up mental health services, including possible need for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
- Recent psychological testing experience and proficiency in psychological testing for Psychologist candidates.
- Applicants are expected to be comfortable working with an ethnically and culturally diverse patient population.
- Credentialing and Priviligeing approval for WCR Medical Centers.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources.
- Establishes liaisons to utilize resources of public and private agencies/community organizations to meet member and program needs.
- May conduct evaluations in Medicare, Social Security, and state disability cases.
This positions may be eligible to transfer to other MH/ CD sites within the DSA (Diablo Service Area).
This posting will accept job code 963010 - Licensed Clinical Social Worker or 963005 - Psychologist
Primary Location: California-Pleasanton
Scheduled Hours (1-40): 40
Shift: Variable
Working Days: Varies
Working Hours Start: Varies
Working Hours End: Varies
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group: NUHW
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Job: Behavioral / Mental Health
Public Department Name: Mental Health
Travel: No
Job Eligible for Benefits: Yes
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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