Job Type

Full-time

Description

Are you excited about a new opportunity? Do you have a passion for providing high quality medical assistance and patient support? Are you mission-driven to help improve health and eliminate inequities in health outcomes in under-resourced communities in DC? Well, look no further! At Community of Hope, we have worked diligently to improve health and end family homelessness to make Washington, DC, more equitable. We believe everyone in DC should have access to good healthcare, a stable income, and home, and hope! If you are ready to make a positive difference in the community, this position is for you!

At COH, we strive for: Caring for Families. Improving Lives. Leading Change

Our Approach and Values:

We care for families by providing direct services with a focus on prevention, healing, and wellness.

We improve lives by building on families' strengths, honoring their choices, and taking a whole-family, multi-generational approach.

We lead and advocate for system change to address the effects of historical and current racial inequities on health outcomes and housing opportunities.

We embrace the diversity of our community, welcome all voices and perspectives, and treat everyone with respect, compassion, and integrity.

We strive for excellence in all that we do, implement evidence-based practices, measure our outcomes, and use this knowledge to continuously strengthen our work.

Position Summary: The Integrated Emotional Wellness Therapist works as part of our Integrated Emotional Wellness team to provide high quality mental health and substance use screening and patient support. This person educates patients and other staff about mental health and treatment options, facilitating referrals to other appropriate services as needed. This is a full-time position based out of our Marie Reed Health Center in NW, DC.

Salary- This position starts at $75k and up based on experience. Indeed provides their own estimated salary calculator and is not affiliated with COH's range.

Highlighted Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports and closely coordinates mental health care with the patient's primary care provider and, when appropriate, other treating mental health providers.
• Screens and assesses patients for mental health and substance abuse disorders.
• Provides patient education about common mental health and substance abuse disorders and available treatment options.
• Maintains a daily schedule of at least 8 patients seen per day.
• Provides crisis intervention per the clinician's licensing and COH guidelines, to include addressing suicidal/homicidal ideations.
• Creates patient safety contracts as appropriate with the patient in crisis and store within patients charts by close of business.
• Document all direct and indirect care in patient's permanent medical record in accordance with accepted agency, medical, and legal standards;
• Monitor patients (in person or via telehealth) for changes in clinical symptoms and treatment side effects or complications
• Provide brief therapy and counseling interventions to clients to support with managing emotional wellness concerns.
• Completes brief assessments to link to appropriate level of care, provide referral based on need, and coordinating with other providers, telephone contact with patients and their families, and contact with outside agencies.
• Provides brief interventions using evidence-based techniques such as Behavioral Activation, Motivational Interviewing, or other interventions appropriate for primary care settings.
• Provides short-term, problem focused therapy for no more than 5 patients, unless approved by the supervisor and for up to 8 sessions per patient as deemed appropriate. Short-term therapy will focus on goal setting, change, and utilizing brief interventions.
• Completes a treatment plan for all short-term therapy clients by the 2nd scheduled session. Monitors client progress through the course of treatment, reevaluating and adapting the treatment plan at required intervals.
• Documents all patient encounters, including face to face, telephone, and electronic communications, in the medical record in a timely fashion.
• Responds to all urgent telephone encounters within 1 business day and non-urgent within 3 business days.
• Secures patient information and maintains patient confidence by completing and safeguarding medical records and keeping patient information confidential.
• *Performs other duties as requested by supervisor.

• Master's degree in Social Work or related field. For MSW degree holders, the appropriate DC LICSW or LPC license is required.
• Minimum of two years of experience in a clinical environment required.
• Thorough knowledge of diagnostic categories, mental health and substance use screening, referral resources, evidence-based treatment modalities, suicide assessment, and therapeutic crisis intervention.
• Ability to function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary team and to collaborate well with other disciplines.
• Experience working with underserved populations preferred.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evening and weekends, required.
• Ability to travel to other sites as needed.

• 8-hour workdays, which include a paid lunch
• 11.5 paid company holidays, 1 personal floating holiday, 15 days of paid vacation (increases to 20 after 3 years of service), and 12 days of paid sick leave on an annual basis
• Annual performance-based raises, up to 5% of your annual pay
• National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and DC Health Professional Loan Repayment Program (DCHPLRP) participants
• Tuition reimbursement, loan repayment for clinicians, licensing reimbursement, and continuing education unit funds for licensed staff
• Many opportunities for internal promotions and transfers across the agency as we continue to grow; we average 30+ promotions each year
• Ongoing internal leadership training for supervisors
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion training and initiatives for all staff
• Ongoing well-being activities, culture compact activities, and trauma-informed care initiatives
• Medical/Dental/Vision Plans through CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield
• Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care reimbursable expenses
• And much more!