What are the responsibilities and job description for the Therapist Nursing Home position at Neighborhood Service Organization?
Job Title: Nursing Home Therapist
Department: Integrated Health
Reports To: Team Lead Nursing HomeTherapist
FLSA Status: Exempt
Summary
This position promotes the mission, vision, values and strategic plan of Neighborhood Service Organization and helps to achieve the strategic goals and objectives of the unit. This is a clinical position providing outreach mental health services to adults within nursing homes and older adults (age 60 and older) regardless of residence type. Interventions include individual and group psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation with professionals and support staff.
Requirements And Duties
Certificates, Licenses, Education:
NSO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to excellence through diversity and considers candidates without regard to sex (including pregnancy related conditions) genetic information, race, color, weight, height, religion, nation origin, citizenship, age, disability, martial or veteran status, misdemeanor arrest record, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender identity or any other legally protected status
Department: Integrated Health
Reports To: Team Lead Nursing HomeTherapist
FLSA Status: Exempt
Summary
This position promotes the mission, vision, values and strategic plan of Neighborhood Service Organization and helps to achieve the strategic goals and objectives of the unit. This is a clinical position providing outreach mental health services to adults within nursing homes and older adults (age 60 and older) regardless of residence type. Interventions include individual and group psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation with professionals and support staff.
Requirements And Duties
- Gathers information pertinent to consumer functioning and consistent with best practices of clinical assessment.
- Formulates person centered treatment plans which reflect identified needs, desires, services and measurable goals synthesized from the assessment and person centered meetings.
- Formulates provisional diagnoses consistent with the assessment.
- Identifies persons in need of hospitalization or placement into other protected environments.
- Appropriately shares findings and recommendations with consumers, significant others, and other professionals in order to ensure implementation of treatment plans and integration of services with other agencies/institutions.
- Establishes supportive and effective relationships with consumers, care givers, significant others and professionals.
- Responds to referrals within the following time frames:
- 7 calendar days for persons discharged from emergency psychiatric settings
- 14 calendar days for non-emergent intakes.
- Disposition made within 3 hours for crisis evaluations.
- Maintains an ongoing caseload within 1.5 standard deviations from the mean Outreach population.
- Provides individual and/or group interventions to clients according to the amount, duration and frequency in the consumer's treatment plan 90% of the time.
Certificates, Licenses, Education:
- Education: MSW Master of Social Work
- Required Licensure: Licensed Master Social Worker LMSW, LLMSW or LP
NSO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to excellence through diversity and considers candidates without regard to sex (including pregnancy related conditions) genetic information, race, color, weight, height, religion, nation origin, citizenship, age, disability, martial or veteran status, misdemeanor arrest record, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender identity or any other legally protected status