Behavioral Health Counselor

Job description

Job Description Engages and provides care and support to Behavioral Health clients, patients, and/or families. Performs psychosocial assessment and care management. Plans, implements, and documents care and treatment. Collaborates with clinical and non-clinical team members and supports multidisciplinary team. Job Responsibility: 1.Assesses clients and conducts psychosocial assessment with family, significant others, and/or professional collaterals to determine patient conditions and needs. 2.Provides specialized therapeutic interventions, individual and/or group psychotherapy, as needed, as well as crisis counseling and intervention services, as appropriate. 3.Provides complex care management including identification and linkage to community services and resources, and/or access or transfer to a higher level of behavioral health care (e.g. partial hospitalization, inpatient hospitalization) as appropriate, and ensures patient moves along care continuum in a timely manner. 4.Promotes patient compliance and adherence to treatment as well as liaises with patient providers for collateral treatment. 5.Provides patients and families with the opportunity to engage in care and treatment a...