Job Description

Fort Lauderdale Behavioral Health Center is a 182-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in the beautiful Oakland Park neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, FL. FLBHC features individual units for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors, and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Fort Lauderdale Behavioral Health Center.

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The Outpatient Clinic Therapist performs Clinical functions to include assisting patients in meeting their goals while enabling them to access, through therapeutic treatment skills to achieve their optimal level of emotional health, including providing basic consultation, teaching, complete specialized clinical social work services for patients/families receiving care, crisis intervention, short-term and long-term family therapy, group therapy, providing information and referrals as needed, and individual therapy when ordered by an MD. Provides variety of psychotherapeutic services including, family and individual (adults and children) in an outpatient psychiatric Behavioral Health Center setting.  Patient(s), with co-occurring disorders, psychiatric disorders, substance abuse disorders and other behavioral disorders.

Benefit Highlights:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation
• Tuition Reimbursement Program 
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Education/Training:

• Master’s Degree from accredited school in Social Work, or Mental Health Counseling.
• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) required or equivalent

Experience:

• One (1) year of experience working in a Behavioral Health Center or psychiatric counseling setting with adults and/or children treating co-occurring, mentally ill, or chemically dependent patients, with an understanding of co-occurring disorders , and Cultural Linguistic Diversity amongst patients .

Licensure/Certification :

• CPR certification
• Licensed as LCSW, LMHC, LMFT- required.

Knowledge and Skills:

Strong therapeutic skills and knowledge of therapeutic philosophies (group and individual treatment skills)

• Working knowledge of developmental stages
• Some minimal knowledge of community resources
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients with varied ability to understand.
• Strong assessment skills and ability to intervene in a variety of situations.
• Sensitive and aware of diverse cultures and their practices

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

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