Position Summary:

Job Title: Mental Health Therapist-LCSW

Dept: APH OP Oncology Clinic

Status: Full Time

Shift: First Shift

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is seeking for Mental Health Therapist (LCSW) with 2 year experience to work with patients to promote optimum mental and emotional health.

ORLANDO HEALTH ARNOLD PALMER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN

Located on the downtown Orlando Health campus, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children has been providing compassionate care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years.  With 156 licensed beds and a team of experts in more than 30 pediatric specialties, the hospital has earned a “Best Children’s Hospitals” recognition by U.S. News & World Report for 14 consecutive years and has been named a Top Children’s Hospital by the patient-advocacy Leapfrog Group. Orlando Health Arnold Palmer has held Magnet®

Recognition for nursing excellence and quality patient care since 2013 and several units have earned Beacon Awards for Excellence for employing evidence-based practices to improve patient outcomes and patient and staff

satisfaction. Our pediatric Level I Trauma Center and ER is the only Central Florida facility to provide the highest level of emergency trauma care exclusively to children, and Orlando Health Arnold Palmer is the only facility in Florida to achieve Level I Children’s Surgical Verification and Level I Trauma Verification by the American College of Surgeons.

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities that span Florida’s east to west coasts and beyond. Collectively, our 27,000+ team members honor our over 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families and communities we serve.

Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible, so that you can be present for your passions. “Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

 Develop comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressions responsive to age appropriate patients/family needs and concerns.

 Differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

 Diagnose biopsychosocial functioning, disability and impairment for the age appropriate patient/family.

 Develop treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven and outcomes focused with the patient/family and healthcare team.

 Develop an effective working relationship with patient/family to engage, collaborate, advocate and problem solve in order to support and enhance their mental health strengths and functioning ability.

 Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions included but are not limited to crisis intervention, solution focused therapy, individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy, grief and bereavement counseling, play therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy and mental status exams.

 Initiate Baker Act.

 Facilitate Marchman Act when appropriate.

 Facilitates patient’s psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to next level of care.

 Provide mental health education, information, consultation and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the healthcare team members and colleagues within the department.

 Demonstrate initiative and leadership in developing mental health services which respond to patient care demands.

 Identify practice based on continuous quality improvement.

 Maintain an up-to-date, accurate and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients’ medical chart, which does not violate confidentiality.

 Meet department/hospital expectations of growth goals set forth by coaching plans.

 Ability to perform independently and provide clinical practice in a health care setting.

 Ability to supervise and participate in teaching within the department, hospital and community.

 When appropriate for the clinical setting, must have subspecialty credentialing i.e., sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT.

 Care coordination responsibilities and related functions as appropriate for your patient population.

 Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

 Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

Education/Training

Master’s degree.

Licensure/Certification

Maintains Florida state (Chapter 491 Florida Statutes) licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Experience

Two (2) years of direct clinical experience preferable in a health or mental health setting with an emphasis on population to be served in the assigned area.