Social Worker - Behavioral Health

Tucson, Arizona


Employer: LifePoint Health
Industry: Therapy (PT, OT, SLP & Assistants)
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

El Dorado Springs, formerly known as Cornerstone El Dorado Behavioral Health and owned and operated by Lifepoint Behavioral Health, seeks passionate, patient-centric, and goal-oriented team members to join the team at our behavioral health facility. We specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including high-quality, evidence-based mental health and substance use treatment. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care and follows the core principles of resilience, recovery, and restoration. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, flexible scheduling, and comprehensive benefits packages so you can focus on what matters-providing quality patient care. Join our team in Tucson, Arizona, and build a career that touches lives.



What you will do in this role:

  • Coordinates, develops and delivers curriculum to meet the psychological needs of patients.
  • Participates within the multidisciplinary treatment team planning process, encouraging patient and family involvement.
  • Perform clinical services aimed at stabilizing the psychiatric crisis and the development of healthy mental health management through a biopsychosocial model of treatment.
  • Responsible for coordination of discharge plan through discharge planning meetings on assigned units and follows up with patients, family, physician and hospital staff from admission through discharge. Initiates patient and family education and discharge planning at admission. Arranges for discharge and post-hospital care of patients through institutions and agencies within the community.
  • Coordinates the referral of patients and families to appropriate community, social service, home health service, extended care, and rehabilitation facilities, and organizations. Creates appropriate discharge plans and documents information in the medical record.
  • Facilitates group psychotherapy and facilitates psychoeducational focus groups serving as a role model for patients to observe and learn socially effective values, attitudes and behaviors.
  • Documents patient care and information in an accurate, legible, manner utilizing correct grammar and spelling; documentation is reflective of patient behavior, thoughts, feelings and responses to milieu and the treatment plan directed interventions
  • Offer brief individual, group, and family interventions, psychoeducation, crisis intervention, as well as providing information and referrals as needed in collaboration with the case management department.
  • Serve on weekend assessments, group session rotation, and on-call rotation when needed.
  • Other duties as assigned


Qualifications

  • Education: Master’s Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling, or a related Behavioral Health field. Minimum of 30 credits completed toward a Master’s Degree in Behavioral Health field with strong academic progress may be considered.
  • Experience: Minimum of 1 year experience in behavioral health discipline. Acute inpatient psychiatric hospital experience preferred.
  • Licenses/Certification: CPI & CPR

Created: 2024-05-18
Reference: 509229
Country: United States
State: Arizona
City: Tucson
ZIP: 85705

About LifePoint Health

Founded in: 1999
Number of Employees: 60000


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