Legacy Health·Portland, Oregon
Provides patient-centered, trauma-informed, and urgent behavioral health services in emergency settings. Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to perform assessments, crisis interventions, and discharge planning.
Overview In times of crisis, you are there for our patients, their family members and our practitioners.
With a supportive approach, you offer short-term, urgent behavioral health services that are focused, effective and patient-driven.
Through your use of evidence-based behavioral interventions, you diffuse an often tense situation to bring hope and healing.
In short, you exemplify the Legacy mission of making life better for others.
Unity Center for Behavioral Health is a one-of-a-kind center for people facing a mental health crisis.
Unity Center features a Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES), where patients receive care by specialists in behavioral health in a calming, non-hospital-like setting.
Unity also has inpatient care for adults and teens.
It is a collaboration between Adventist Health, Kaiser Permanente, Legacy Health and Oregon Health & Science University.
Provides primarily patient-centered, trauma-informed, short term, urgent and emergent behavioral health (mental health and addictions) services in adult and pediatric emergency settings across the health continuum. Works both independently and collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Provides behavioral health consultations by supporting or assisting practitioners, family members and patients. Provides focused, effective, and evidence-based behavioral interventions. Key services include but are not limited to: brief psychosocial assessment brief drug and alcohol assessment crisis intervention hold assessment supportive counseling ED diversion care coordination and communication with medical team, family, referents, access workers and other community-based providers transitions of care/ discharge planning. Incumbents in this job provide a variety of key services in guiding the patient through the continuum of care. This position is specific to Unity Center for Behavioral Health.
Education: Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or other behavioral health field as required by licensure or credential.
Experience assessing and diagnosing adults experiencing a mental health crisis preferred.
Requires a Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or a related behavioral health field. Must hold a valid clinical license or associate credential such as CSWA, LPC, or LMFT at the time of hire.
Market context
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