Mental Health Professional Lead - HCA Healthcare

Description

Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) Mental Health Professional Lead with HCA Florida Mercy Hospital you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Benefits

HCA Florida Mercy Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the HCA Florida Mercy Hospital family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Mental Health Professional Lead to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Mental Health Professional Lead facilitates high quality, patient-centered care by providing and ensuring optimum psychiatric treatment services to patients and their families. The Mental Health Professional Lead performs assessments, psycho-education, process groups, treatment planning, discharge planning and therapeutic counseling support through evidenced based interventions in individual, family, and group therapy. The Mental Health Professional Lead provides leadership and coaching and serves as a resource for the care team.

What will you do in this role:

• Demonstrates advanced clinical skills and ability to plan and facilitate individual, group and family psychoeducational and process groups.
• Develops treatment plans, attends and leads treatment planning meetings and reviews on an ongoing basis. Ensures timeliness and thoroughness of treatment planning documentation and attendance.
• Assesses environment and patient’s safety status and reports/responds to actual and potential safety issues or changes in the patient's condition.
• Identifies risk factors, screening criteria and interventions for patients with special precautions (e.g., suicide, homicide, falls, elopement).
• Completes advanced assessments, group notes and all other documentation promptly and in compliance with requirements, as appropriate to scope.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to assess and coordinate patient’s discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge. Provides guidance on complex issues.
• Conducts post-discharge follow-up as indicated.
• Evaluates re-admissions for gaps in discharge planning processes. Formulates a plan and implements new strategies.
• Develops and maintains a community resource guide including access to public assistance/alternatives.
• Coordinates and participates in Community Education, Activities and Support Groups, as appropriate to scope.
• Assumes responsibility for ensuring a safe, structured milieu with evidence-based treatment modalities/resources.
• Identifies cultural considerations, gender identity and preferred language for patients and family.
• Demonstrates appropriate application of age/developmental stage specific standards, policies and procedures, and guidelines in assessing and treating patients to ensure patient safety.
• Maintains active and timely communication with patients, families, multidisciplinary team and continuum of care providers. Addresses any communication-related issues as appropriate.
• Maintains professionalism and uses good communication skills in interacting with peers, staff, patients, families and in resolving conflicts.
• Demonstrates understanding of and ability to maintain clear professional boundaries with peers, patients and families.
• Provides education and guidance regarding state commitment processes, abuse reporting requirements, duty to warn and guardianship processes.
• Demonstrates knowledge and role in hospital codes.
• Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, interdisciplinary team members, payer representatives, and other parties as appropriate regarding behavioral services.
• Oversees staff provision of care and services, ensuring the use of accepted standards of care.
• Assists in interviewing and selecting qualified personnel as required to meet departmental objectives.
• Reviews, coaches, and ensures the training of new staff/interns as assigned within approved practice and program guidelines.
• Provides clinical supervision of others towards advanced licensure, as appropriate.
• Provides initial and ongoing performance review/development of assigned personnel including development opportunities. Utilizes appropriate and regular oversight when delegating competency assessment activities.
• Assumes responsibility for appropriate disciplinary action of staff members in collaboration with HR.
• Develops department goals/objectives and clinical programming.
• Develops Process and Quality Improvement initiatives appropriate to department.
• Performs utilization review as assigned.
• Assists with Process and Quality Improvement initiatives.
• Assumes accountability for departmental operational budget, inclusive of staffing productivity, scheduling, billing and supply management, and utilizing management, as applicable.
• Maintains data integrity through auditing to ensure accuracy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” and “Mission and Value Statement.”

What qualifications you will need:

• Masters in Social Work (MSW) required
• 3+ years experience in mental health or related field required
• 1+ years experience in leadership preferred
• Currently licensed as one of the following professionals in the state(s) of practice, according to law and regulation REQUIRED: The following licensures are accepted:
• • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCWS)
  • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)*
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)*
  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)*
  • Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW, LICSW)*

HCA Florida Mercy Hospital is a 488-bed facility. We are accredited by the Joint Commission and offer a wide range of medical specialties. These specialties include emergency care, heart, and vascular care. We are designated by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center. Other specialties include maternity and neonatal care. We are a Level II NICU hospital. HCA Florida Mercy Hospital is CARF accredited for inpatient rehabilitation. Our facility offers a Comprehensive Community Cancer Program. This program is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. We are affiliated with HCA Florida Healthcare Division. HCA Florida Mercy Hospital is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, Florida. We serve as Miami-Dade County’s only Catholic hospital. We follow the Catholic tradition of caring for God’s people and providing spiritual support. We are dedicated to our mission of caring for the physical and spiritual needs of all the people we serve.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Mental Health Professional Lead opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.