Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center

Therapist

• Provide outpatient mental/behavioral health psychotherapy to patients of the Health Center, including the health center's Office Based Addiction Treatment and SUD patients.
• Provide brief and longer-term psychotherapy, consultation, assessment and evaluation.
• Serve as a member of the clinical practice team and works collaboratively with other team members in providing patient care.
• Participate in coordinating care for individual patients, support patients and families in self-management, through evidenced-based approaches as part of the team-based approach to care.
• Engage in health center projects that are aimed at specific patient population needs.
• Maintain necessary paperwork and documentation as required by department and health center policies and protocols.
• Provide consultation to medical providers as well as to other programs of the health center regarding mental/behavioral health issues.
• Provide patient advocacy, outreach, and education in the community as appropriate.
• Adhere to all department protocols regarding patient care.
• Perform other duties and work on special projects as assigned by the supervisor including attendance at requested department, center, and outside meetings and/or trainings.

Bilingual Psychotherapist II