About this role
Job Summary
The psychotherapist is responsible for providing a full range of counselling services to clients with addiction and mental health issues. The psychotherapist manages assigned caseloads and supports other psychotherapist’s caseloads by providing individual, family, and group psychotherapy/counselling. The psychotherapist works as a member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. Working outside office hours, including evenings and weekends, may be required, especially on-call crisis intervention.
Job Description
• Systematically collect and review information to continually develop an appropriate treatment plan based on evidence, research, client history, and clinical progress.
• Efficiently treat psychological disorders by employing appropriate psychotherapeutic approaches, techniques and plan frequency, intensity, and duration of individual, group, and family therapies.
• Effectively communicate with and counsel client’s family members as appropriate to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting clients. Keep them informed of the treatment plan and progress.
• Consistently provide weekly updates to the referring professional and case consultation as needed.
• Provide crisis intervention to clients as indicated in the professional guidelines.
• Consistently and accurately record necessary information into the electronic medical records (EMR) system.
• Develop a discharge plan and complete the necessary paperwork to refer clients to outpatient care and appropriate support groups.
• Actively assist with general monitoring of in-house clients as needed based upon availability and staffing needs.
• Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirement
• Master’s Degree or higher in Psychology, or related field plus 3 years of clinical experience in an alcohol or other drugs (AOD) or mental health setting preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Psychology with 5 or more years in an AOD or mental health setting, or a combination of comparable skills, experience, and education.
• Possession of a professional license.
• Experience with trauma-informed services, cognitive behavioural therapies including DBT, and motivational therapies including the use of incentives preferred.
• Experience with the EMR system is a plus.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal, a skill set to engage clients and get clients engaged.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in written and verbal communication, including group facilitation skills.
• Conflict resolution skills are preferred.