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Natchaug Hospital is Eastern Connecticut’s leading provider for children, adolescents and adults with mental illness and substance use addictions. We offer a variety of programs including inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, residential treatment for court-involved teenage girls, geriatric services, clinical day treatment schools and chemical dependency services. Through our multi-site network of care, we constantly strive to meet its mission in Helping people find their way while educating and empowering individuals to participate in their own care and recovery.
Program Summary
Natchaug Hospital's Journey House program is a specialized residential treatment facility on the Mansfield campus for up to 12 adolescent girls with identified needs for behavioral health services who admitted through a referral from the juvenile justice system. Journey House offers a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities that are carried out in individual, group and family settings. Residents and the treatment team collaborate on discharge planning, which includes coordination of individual and family therapy, medication management, identification of a primary care physician and any vocational, recreational or educational planning.
Job Summary
Behavioral Health Clinician works in coordination with interdisciplinary teams to organize, prepare, and deliver evidence based clinical services in Journey House. Clinical services include individual, group and family therapy. Low staff to youth client ratio; max 1:4. Collaborate and network with other Behavioral Health Network departments within Hartford HealthCare, state systems, juvenile courts, CSSD, and DCF.
Key responsibilities of Behavioral Health Clinician:
- Conducts a comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment and establishes a care plan, as appropriate.
- Provides direct patient care that may include case management, care coordination, interdisciplinary collaboration for care transition needs, crisis intervention/safety planning, counseling, and emotional support to patients and families coping with illness, trauma, or end -of-life care, referral and discharge planning.
- Refers patient to appropriate levels of care and available resources that promote the individualized care plan.
- Maintains timely patient-centered documentation that reflect the patient and client systems’ pertinent information for assessment, interventions and outcomes in accordance with regulatory licensing requirements and third-party agencies.
***Behavioral Health Clinicians are eligible for a Sign On Bonus up to $1,500.00, in accordance with program guidelines***