Assessment Clinician Per Diem

• We are hiring a per diem Assessment Clinician Masters Level to join our Intake team.
• This position is 12 hour shifts covering either 7 am - 7:30 pm or 7 pm - 730 am.
• In Person only.
• Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital is a 120-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital located in Tacoma, Washington.
• We are Department of Health and Joint Commission accredited.
• We are an acute care psychiatric hospital providing care to both voluntary and involuntary patients.
• At Wellfound, our approach to treatment emphasizes whole-person centered care that supports wellness and recovery.
• We respect and are inclusive of everyone’s unique values, strengths, and beliefs.
• We believe in a team approach to care which includes our amazing providers, nurses, mental health technicians and therapy team members.

Position Information

• The Assessment Clinician performs work at an advanced, specialized, and independent level. Provides intensive casework with individual, family and marital therapy. Skilled in de-escalation and brief solution
• focused therapy. Provides group therapy and diagnostic evaluations and interprets complex psychosocial factors to a variety of psychiatric and addition patients. Relates accepted theories of psychiatry/psychology to practice situations. Requires instruction only in highly complex, new or specialized methods or procedures. Essential Duties:
• Ability to independently conduct psychosocial assessment, develop updates and detailed reassessment of the patient needs
• Assess social history and identify high-social risk issues that may impact disposition planning
• Coordinate with family, support persons and community providers to make a full and complete assessment of patient’s functioning, care needs and discharge supports.
• Provide patient and family education, support and advocacy
• Participate as a member of the treatment team in developing interdisciplinary master treatment plan goals for treatment and guide subsequent intervention
• Implement planned interventions aimed at meeting specified goals in the treatment plan and offered through a variety of modalities (group, individual, couple, family, etc.)
• Make level of care recommendations and assist care coordinators in developing comprehensive disposition plans to the next level of care