• Job Description

  Req#: 130627

  At Sharon Regional Medical Center, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized health care with dignity, compassion and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers in how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.

  We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.

  In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:

  Compassion

  Accountability

  Respect

  Excellence

  Stewardship

  If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit for you.

  Job Summary and Responsibilities:

  The Mental Health Counselor provides direct care services to patients who meet the criteria for admission to the Kite Strings program. This program provides intensive group treatment for pre-pubescent ages 11-14 who are having difficulty managing mental health issues, trauma, and emotional distress. The program utilizes a cognitive re-structuring methodology to help "tweens" identify, understand, and address problems in healthy ways and encourages the child to become the hero of their own story.

  The Mental Health Counselor is an active member of a treatment team and is responsible for the planning of individualized, age-specific needs-based programming for the Kite Strings program participants. The Mental Health Counselor accepts referrals for admission, conducts intakes and completes assessments; provides individual and family support sessions, psycho-educational groups, case planning and management to include utilization review; monitors program milieu, completes medical record documentation, and develops disposition plans for partial hospitalization program patients.

  Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Health-Related Sciences required
  • Master’s Degree preferred
  • Counseling certification preferred
  • Minimum of 3 years clinical experience specific to patient population
  • Clearances (Act 33/34/73; Ohio BCI if OH resident)
  • BLS/CPR required

  Benefits:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401K
  • Vacation time
  • Sick time

  About Steward Health Care
  Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
  
  As the country's largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
  
  Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 33 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
  For more information, visit www.steward.org.

  Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician-owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.

• About the company

  2 million people during more than twelve million physician and hospital visits annually.

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