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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:

+ Utilize specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in psychotherapy, clinical counseling, diagnostic interviews, assessments and treatment plans to patients.

+ Provide individual, group, family and crisis counseling.

+ Utilize a clinical focus across the mental health spectrum, from anxiety and depression to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

+ Participate in the development and implementation of assessments based on interdisciplinary treatment plans.

+ Consult with team members, statutory/voluntary agencies and relatives to ensure compliance with the patient treatment plan.

+ Act as a liaison between patients, families, community support workers and facilities to obtain information and facilitate discharge planning.

+ Educate and provide resources to patients and families.

+ Supervise and/or train lower-level social workers, students or interns.

+ Process paperwork and complete clinical documentation.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

+ Master's Degree in Social Work

+ 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

+ 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

+ 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:

+ Licensed Independent Social Worker - LISW, LISW-S

+ Experience working with adult population in a psychiatric setting

+ 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.

+ 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:

+ 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:

+ Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.

Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities