LPC (Long Term Therapy) at Metro Community Health Center – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide patient-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent mental health care in a primary health care setting to children, adolescents, and adults.
• Work collaboratively in a team with program psychiatrist/director, other therapist(s), care coordinator, and patients’ Primary Care Providers (PCP’s).
• Provide clinical intake assessment, screening, and evaluate patients for typical mental health and substance use disorders, referring to outside services when indicated (e.g., rehab, detox, suboxone/methadone, IOP/PHP, support groups/meetings, mental health clubhouses).
• Conducts psychosocial needs assessments and connects them to internal and external resources (e.g., case management services, housing support, food pantries and emergency food boxes, transportation, supported employment, etc.).
• Provide psychoeducation about common physical, mental health, and substance abuse disorders and treatment options.
• Provide evidence-based treatment and individual and group therapies (i.e., CBT, Behavioral Activation, Motivational Interviewing, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, IPT, DBT skills, etc.).
• Monitors and assesses patient’s in person clinical symptoms and treatment needs, and communicate changes to the Mental Health Team.
• Provide/facilitate access to in-clinic or outside resources or referrals when indicated.
• Engage in regularly scheduled group and individual supervision with the Mental Health Team Manager/Director.
• Participate in weekly consultations between Mental Health Team and patients’ PCP’s focusing on high-risk and high-need patients.
• Utilize an Integrative care approach with all mental, physical, and oral health staff.
• Facilitate patient engagement and follow-up in care.
• Track patient follow-up and clinical outcomes using a registry, and use the system to identify patients with higher risk/needs, and re-engage patients who have fallen out of care.
• Document patient progress, treatment, and recommendations in the electronic medical record.
• Complete documentation and billing in a timely manner.
• Generate and update patient treatment plans, addressing whole-patient needs, various life-domains that can facilitate improved patient well-being and quality of life.
• Do step-down care with decreased frequency of visits as patients improve, and complete relapse-prevention plans with patients in remission.
• Complete discharge summaries for patients who no longer require this level of care, or who exit treatment for other reasons.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Successful completion of an approved Social Work, Clinical Counseling, or Clinical Psychology program required.
• Currently an actively certified Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor, or Licensed Clinical Psychologist.
• Successful passing of Child Abuse and FBI Clearance.
• Minimum of two years of clinical social work or clinical psychology experience in a community health care environment
• Knowledge of principles, theories, values, and ethics of Mental Health treatment practices, including SBIRT, motivational interviewing, and other evidence-based methodologies.
• Must be committed to providing high quality care to underserved and diverse populations.
• Must be LGBTQI+ knowledgeable of affirming care.
• At least 1 day of evening hours is required.
• Significant knowledge of the impact of how medical ailments affect mental health, and vice versa.