Conducts mental health evaluations to identify mental health symptoms and psychosocial stressors and/or supports to include chronic illness, trauma, disability, primary support group, educational experiences, social environment, legal system and other psychosocial or environmental factors.
Develops an individualized treatment plan to address identified diagnoses and symptoms.
Provides evidenced based therapies to children with mental health diagnoses and co-occurring acute or chronic illness, trauma, or disability.
Completes comprehensive evaluations for review by the broader treatment team (such as treating MD referral source).
Completes psychosocial evaluations, progress notes and individualized treatment plans in accordance with the established best practice and third-party guidelines.
Evaluates children and adolescents at risk for harm to self or others to determine the appropriate level of care and facilitates admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities and/or referrals to other community mental health services, as appropriate.
Obtains outcome measures, through use of psychometric tools to track clinical trends and share data on patient progress with collaborating physicians.
Leads coordination efforts with patients' medical care providers to ensure seamless integration of medical and mental health care.
Runs evidence-based groups as a co-facilitator.
May participate in department on-call as needed.
Performs all other duties as assigned.
