When you join the Cleveland Clinic’s Strongsville Family Health and Surgery Center team, you become a caregiver at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. This patient-friendly facility offers a wide array of services to provide patients with unparalleled care and support. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless appreciation and build a rewarding career.
Join the School Mental Health Program! We are a dynamic and highly collaborative interdisciplinary team aimed at helping students address mental health challenges that may be impacting their success. As part of this unique treatment team, you will work alongside psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic Mental Health professionals, primary care providers, school personnel, caregivers, and students themselves. The Behavioral Health Outpatient Therapist plays a pivotal role by managing program referrals, coordinating care, linking students and caregivers to resources, conducting comprehensive assessments, and providing multigenerational clinical services. This role offers exciting learning opportunities with the support of an experienced and mission-oriented team.
School Based training locations: Lakewood, Garfield Heights, Berea
A caregiver in this position works 8:00am—5:00pm.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
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Utilize specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in psychotherapy, clinical counseling, diagnostic interviews, assessments and treatment plans to patients.
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Provide individual, group, family and crisis counseling.
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Utilize a clinical focus across the mental health spectrum, from anxiety and depression to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
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Participate in the development and implementation of assessments based on interdisciplinary treatment plans.
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Consult with team members, statutory/voluntary agencies and relatives to ensure compliance with the patient treatment plan.
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Act as a liaison between patients, families, community support workers and facilities to obtain information and facilitate discharge planning.
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Educate and provide resources to patients and families.
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Supervise and/or train lower-level social workers, students or interns.
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Process paperwork and complete clinical documentation.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
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Master's Degree in Social Work
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Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW), OR Licensed Independent Social Worker with Supervision (LISW-S), OR Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), OR Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), OR Licensed Social Worker (LSW) no record of substantiated ethics or patient abuse reports
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3 years of experience in a behavioral health setting is required with comprehensive knowledge of current psychotherapeutic techniques, theories, and practices sufficient to evaluate, diagnose and counsel patients
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Can concisely document clinical findings and patient needs in an electronic medical record while navigating a multi-specialized behavioral health environment and the ability to communicate across different electronic platforms and across a broad geographic provide base
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
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Licensed Independent Social Worker – LISW, LISW-S
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Experience working with adult population in a psychiatric setting
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Can provide supervision of social work students with a common goal of support of creating the future population health workforce (social work, pharmacy, nursing, care coordination and social work). Clinical care will be from a care team to improve population health outcomes.
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Can collaborate and work with advanced practitioners and residents
Our caregivers continue to create the best outcomes for our patients across each of our facilities. Click the link and see how we’re dedicated to providing what matters most to you: https://jobs.clevelandclinic.org/benefits-2/
Physical Requirements:
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A high degree of manual dexterity to produce materials on PC; normal or corrected vision; extensive sitting and frequent walking; occasional lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds.
Personal Protective Equipment:
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Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
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The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our tobacco free and drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substance and nicotine. All new caregivers must clear a nicotine test within their 90-day new hire period. Candidates for employment who are impacted by Cleveland Clinic Health System’s Smoking Policy will be permitted to reapply for open positions after one year.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.