Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Overview

NaphCare is hiring Clinicians to join our highly regarded and specialized Jail Based Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) that operates as an adult male intensive mental health unit to promote wellness and recovery at the Forsyth County Law Enforcement and Detention Facility in Winston Salem, NC.

The position is part-time, including two 8-hour dayshift weekend days (total of 16 hours).

The Clinician will conduct mental health assessments, develop individualized treatment plans, evaluate treatment goals, and provide individual and group therapy using psychoeducation, evidenced-based therapies, coping and social skills building, and support to improve patients’ symptoms of mental illness and/or disability, functioning, and overall well-being. The ideal candidate has experience working with serious mental illness and/or in a correctional setting, and in working within a multidisciplinary team.

The BHU unit is a therapeutic environment, providing intensive partial day treatment. By providing patient-centered, evidenced-based, and holistic care, the BHU helps patients living with mental illness and/or disability understand their need for treatment and provides the opportunities needed for these individuals to learn how to maximize their wellness and functioning within the facility’s general population. Following an approximate 12-week mental health psychoeducational and clinical curriculum, BHU graduates learn the skills and insight needed to move forward with their lives in a healthier place.  

NaphCare is partnered with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office to provide this program, and the Clinician is an employee or contractor of NaphCare, Inc.

The Clinician will work with a team of other clinicians, discharge planner, psychiatric nurse practitioner, and mental health director to provide comprehensive mental health services on the BHU.

Responsibilities

Position Description:

• Serve as a contributing member of the multidisciplinary treatment team
• Conduct and document initial (or updates to existing) mental health assessments
• Perform and document treatment plans and treatment team review notes
• Maintain an individual caseload of BHU patients for individual treatment and documentation
• Conducts brief daily check-ins with individual caseload
• Provide group therapeutic and psychoeducational services
• Conduct crisis intervention and suicide/safety risk assessments as warranted
• Assist in outcomes assessments of the BHU patients (e.g., screening measures; data entry)
• Coordinate with health and correctional staff regarding patients’ mental health care
• Participate in educational and training activities related to mental health care for patients, security personnel, and healthcare staff
• Demonstrate knowledge of DSM-V-TR criteria and mental health practice standards

Qualifications

Position Requirements/Preferred Experience:

• Masters prepared candidate with active, unrestricted licensure as a clinician (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LPC, etc.) in the state of North Carolina
• Knowledge of the DSM-V-TR criteria and conditions
• Knowledge of evidenced-based and/or empirically informed treatments for serious mental illness and major mental disorders (e.g., neurodevelopmental disorders)
• At least 1 year of experience, including working with adults living with serious mental illness and/or in a correctional or adult inpatient mental health environment, preferred but not required

As a Clinician, have you ever wanted to work somewhere where you can see real results from what you do?  Where you are part of a true mental health professional team, well-supported by management, such that you know your patients quickly receive any medications they need, receive fast follow-up from providers and experience remarkable results?  Would you like to work in a place that is secure and where most patients are very appreciative of your care?   

This is what our employees say about working in correctional healthcare for NaphCare: “Working with NaphCare has provided me with amazing opportunities for growth. Through my various roles I’ve experienced the benefit of balancing management tasks with performing direct patient care to serve our most vulnerable populations. It has been tremendously rewarding to help implement and grow award-winning programs and participate in site transitions across the nation. Our mental health programs take a collaborative multidisciplinary approach because we understand that working together is the only way to effectively meet our patients’ needs.”  Meghan, LMHC NaphCare pays well, offers outstanding benefits, and has an incredibly engaged corporate support team to make sure you have what you need to be truly excellent at what you do. 

NaphCare Benefits for full-time employees include:•    Prescriptions free of charge through our health plan•    Health, dental & vision insurance•    Employment Assistance Program (EAP) services•    100% vested 401K and Roth with company contribution•    Tuition Assistance to further your education•    Referral bonuses when you help us find talented team members•    NaphCare University – for convenient online learning•    Term life insurance at no cost to you•    Generous paid time off & paid holidays

We support your growth and internal promotion. Once hired, we encourage our employees to continue to seek opportunities for advancement and leadership.

NaphCare is a family owned, medical technology company that has been delivering high quality healthcare to correctional facilities across the nation for over 30 years. Come join our team of over 4000 employees and growing! NaphCare pays well, offers outstanding benefits, and has an incredibly engaged corporate support team to make sure you have what you need to be truly excellent at what you do.

Want a better idea of what it’s like to work in a jail? See what our MHPs do:

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If you would like to speak with me to learn more about this position and NaphCare, apply directly to the position to initiate the application process, and I’ll be in touch.

We have opportunities for full-time with great benefits, part-time, PRN, and 13-week temporary contracts available!

NaphCare has a partnership with NetCE that provides CEU/CME for our staff. NetCE uses a rigorous peer review process to ensure that all activities and content are up-to-date. This service streamlines continuing education for all NaphCare Employees to meet state specific requirements for maintaining licensing. 

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