Assessment Clinician Per diem Intake Days

We are hiring a Per diem Assessment Clinician Masters Level to join our Inpatient team. The shift is 7 am - 7:30 pm and must work one day per week. Additional days may be available with call outs or leave.

Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital is a 120-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital located in Tacoma, Washington. We are Department of Health and Joint Commission accredited. We are an acute care psychiatric hospital providing care to both voluntary and involuntary patients.

Position Information

• The Assessment Clinician performs work at an advanced, specialized, and independent level. Provides intensive casework with individual, family and marital therapy. Skilled in de-escalation and brief solution
• focused therapy. Provides group therapy and diagnostic evaluations and interprets complex psychosocial factors to a variety of psychiatric and addition patients. Relates accepted theories of psychiatry/psychology to practice situations. Requires instruction only in highly complex, new or specialized methods or procedures. Essential Duties:
• Ability to independently conduct psychosocial assessment, develop updates and detailed reassessment of the patient needs
• Assess social history and identify high-social risk issues that may impact disposition planning
• Coordinate with family, support persons and community providers to make a full and complete assessment of patient’s functioning, care needs and discharge supports.
• Provide patient and family education, support and advocacy
• Participate as a member of the treatment team in developing interdisciplinary master treatment plan goals for treatment and guide subsequent intervention
• Implement planned interventions aimed at meeting specified goals in the treatment plan and offered through a variety of modalities (group, individual, couple, family, etc.)
• Make level of care recommendations and assist care coordinators in developing comprehensive disposition plans to the next level of care
• Provide therapeutic activities that focus upon the development and maintenance of adaptive skills that will improve the patient’s functioning.
• Report to work at scheduled time and work the entirety of the scheduled shift.

We offer competitive pay and benefits

• Hourly – associate pay $37.67- $69.84/independent pay $39.80-$73.78 + 15% per diem rate