Senior Clinician

Knowledge: 

Must have a basic understanding of the therapeutic process that patients experience during program hours, understand confidentiality laws, and have a strong knowledge of professional ethics. Must be able to demonstrate leadership abilities and be able to work with persons from all educational and cultural backgrounds. Must demonstrate tact, resourcefulness, independent thinking, enthusiasm, and non-judgmental attitude. 

Senior Duties and Responsibilities 

1. Serve as point person when Director is out on PTO   
2. Provide leadership presence and support for PHP / IOP programming and coordinates efforts of clinical team to provide consistent, effective day to day treatment. 
3. Assisting Program Director in finding milieu coverage for groups and meals. 
4. Assisting Program Director in ensuring all duties, policies and procedures are carried out correctly. 
5. Provide individual therapy and POD groups when backup coverage is needed for Primary Clinicians. 
6. Create effective relationships and be the liaison with other departments in creating and improving work processes. 
7. Attend all staffing and monitor treatment progress of PHP patients. 
8. Phone coverage (answering the phones, transferring calls) as assigned/needed 
9. Role Models appropriate compliance to all milieu tasks and adherence to policy and procedures 
10. Supports clinical leadership in the implementation of and adherence to rules, policies, and procedures.  
11. Takes ownership, in collaboration with program director, for training of new milieu staff and students. 

Primary Responsibilities  

1. Responsible for managing a caseload of 3-4 PHP/IOP patients.  
2. Demonstrates ability to provide comprehensive and ongoing assessment resulting in appropriate treatment and discharge recommendations (BioPsychoSocial assessment completed in patient’s chart within policy guidelines, assessing and identifying current diagnoses, etc.) 
3. Creates an individualized treatment plan with appropriate PHP/ IOP goals and objectives (completed within policy guidelines) and continually monitors progress and re-evaluates appropriateness of goals. 
4. Demonstrates knowledge and practice of clinical interviewing/counseling skills. 
5. Demonstrates knowledge and skill in working with individuals and groups within the eating disorder population. 
6. Demonstrates ability to build therapeutic rapport. 
7. Facilitate meals with expertise as needed: demonstrate ability to challenge behaviors and support recovery. 
8. Facilitates groups with expertise, demonstrating the ability to engage, set limits and monitor the group process. 
9. Maintains and enforces clinical program structure and policies of EDCare (e.g., attendance, autobiography, daily check-ins, group participation, etc). 
10. Is creative in therapeutic interventions to include homework assignments, community resources, etc. 
11. Participate in weekly staffing, conveying pertinent clinical information and formulating goals for the following week. Effectively communicates with members of the treatment team. 
12. Timely completion and accuracy of clinical paperwork: treatment plan, progress notes, etc. 

13. Provides clinical referrals when clinically indicated and provides effective and consistent communication to all collaborative providers.

14. Ongoing attention to discharge plan evidenced by development of aftercare plan, coordination with OP providers and referrals sources, and secures patient’s knowledge of available resources. 

15. Completion of thorough discharge summaries reflecting the course of treatment and ongoing clinical recommendations. Completed within 14 days of discharge. 

16. Completes utilization review sheet with pertinent clinical information and conducts utilization review as needed 

17. Effective and consistent communication with referral sources and collaborative providers. 

18. Rotation of Holiday coverage and clinical on call, if applicable. 

19. Other job duties as may reasonably be assigned. 

Computer Skills: 

1. Must be able to effectively maneuver within an office scheduling system. 
2. Minimum of intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. 
3. Must be able to efficiently learn and effectively work within an electronic medical records system. 

Physical Demands and Environment: 

Physical demands of this job include but are NOT limited to: 

Sitting frequently, standing occasionally, walking occasionally, talking occasionally, hearing constantly, seeing constantly, reaching with arms and hands occasionally, crouching occasionally and using fingers intricately.  This position requires lifting/carrying up to 10 pounds occasionally. 

Environmental conditions of this job include but are NOT limited to: 

95% inside, 99% normal temperature and 99% normal noise as expected in a medical office environment. 

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. 

Minimum Qualifications:   

1. Master’s degree required. 
2. Licensed as PLMHP, LMHP, LIMHP required. 
3. Experience working individually and in groups with eating disordered clients preferred. 
4. Clinical conceptualization of the treatment of eating disorders and dual diagnosis preferred. 
5. Good oral and written communication skills required. 
6. Clinical leadership skills and or mentorship skills strongly preferred