Psychiatric Rehabilitation Therapist (76852)

## Psychiatric Rehabilitation Therapist

At CrescentCare, we bring caregivers and the community together as partners in health and wellness for all. Our experience builds on more than 40 years of impact through our founding organization, NO/AIDS Task Force. In 2014, we became a Federally Qualified Health Center to offer an expanded range of health and wellness services for anyone and everyone who is seeking healthcare services in Greater New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana.

**OUR MISSION**

Strengthening our entire community through whole-person healthcare and education.

**POSISTION SUMMARY**

Provide medically necessary and clinically appropriate services to identified clients living with a diagnosed serious mental illness causing emotional, cognitive, or behavioral impairment. Provide evidence-based rehabilitative mental health services to counterbalance the negative impacts of serious mental illness. Rehabilitative therapy is focused on providing mental health psychoeducation and skills development to facilitate a sense of meaning and purpose through employment inclusion, educational systems inclusion, and social/community inclusion.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

• Provide medically necessary and clinically appropriate services to identified clients with a serious mental health diagnosis and an emotional, cognitive, and/or behavioral impairment that is a direct result of the mental illness.
• Utilize the designated evidence-based model(s) for delivering Rehabilitative Mental Health treatment.
• Restore the functioning of adults with mental health diagnosis to the fullest extent possible with the least amount of professional intervention and to minimize the disabling effects on the individual’s capacity for community living and/or limit the periods of inpatient treatment.
• The overarching focus is to utilize the personal strengths, resources, and natural supports to reduce functional deficits associated with their mental illness and increase restoration of independent functioning.
• Provide face-to-face services primarily at CrescentCare locations, or in the community when medically necessary to achieve a component of the treatment plan.
• Works as part of the integrated medical and behavioral health care team within the agency and the community at large to serve clients and improve health outcomes.

• **POSITION REQUIREMENTS**
• **Education (required)**

• A master’s degree in either social work or a CACREP-accredited graduate program.

**Licensure (minimum required and maximum)**

• **Minimum**: Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor (PLPC), Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), or Provisionally Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (PLMFT).
• **Maximum**: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT).

**Other**

• Minimum age of 21.
• Must have reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license, no license denials, revocations, or more than one suspension in the past three years; valid car insurance; no more than one at-fault accident in the past three years and no more than two moving violations in the past five years.

**ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS**

• Extended periods of sitting required.
• Work is primarily office based.
• Some travel may be required.
• May need to lift up to 25 pounds in equipment and supplies

**TOTAL COMPENSATION PACKAGE**

We believe the investment we make in our employees is among the most important. Our compensation package includes

• Comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage options
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Employer-paid Dental
• Employer-paid life insurance & AD&D
• Employer-paid Wellness Program
• Employer-paid Employee Assistance Program
• Employer-sponsored vision insurance
• Employer-sponsored short-term disability insurance
• Vacation time (accrue 10 days in first 12 months)
• Sick time (accrue 8 days in first 12 months)
• Eleven (11) paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match beginning in employee’s second year