Job Summary/Description
* The Behavioral Healthcare Provider develops, coordinates, implements and provides identified
interdisciplinary
services concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical science,
knowledge and
techniques relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge and these techniques to
prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
* Independently provide behavioral healthcare provider services within credentialed scope of practice
and serve
as lead workers or liaisons to other support agencies (public or private).
Job Duties/Responsibilities/Functions (including but not limited to)
* Acts as lead worker over lower level behavioral healthcare providers or independently develops and
implements treatment plans for clients
* Coordinates admission, assessment, evaluation, and treatment plans of client's care cycle
* Provides interventions with acute, more complex clients
* Handles cases containing numerous factors and problems and provides crisis intervention
* Participates in process of establishing, implementing, and directing behavioral healthcare programs
and
treatment system objectives
* Develops and designs treatment intervention techniques and procedures, evaluates and modifies
treatment
systems to be responsive to client's progress and ability to change behavior
* Evaluates performance of lower-level behavioral healthcare providers in administration of prescribed
treatment plans and maintains necessary data documents to satisfy requirements of federal, state and
local
agencies
* Serves as active member of treatment teams, training sessions, department procedure meetings,
policy review
meetings
* Establishes and maintains working relationship with other facilities, agencies and support services in
order to
coordinate referrals and conduct follow-up services
Minimum Qualifications
* Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor (LICDC) by Ohio Chemical Dependency
Counselor's
Credentialing Board.
o Or Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family
Therapy Board.
o Or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family
Therapy Board.
o Or Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist (IMFT) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work,
Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
o Or Licensed Registered Nurse with certificate of authority as a Clinical Nurse Specialist or Certified
Nurse Practitioner with specialty certification in Mental Health or Psychiatry as issued by Ohio Board of
Nursing .
* Training and development required to remain in the classification after employment - Completion of
continuing professional education for license renewal pursuant to relevant sections of Ohio Revised
Code
* UNUSUAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
o May require unusual work schedules or arrangements; may be exposed to clients who may be
potentially
violent; may be exposed to unusual noise, odors, or contagious diseases; may require travel to
community
site under contract with Department of Mental Health
