Virtual Mental Health Therapist, NJ Licensure Required
Posted 18hrs ago
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Job Description
Virtual mental health therapist providing individual, family, and group treatment. Managing assessments, crisis support, documentation, utilization reviews, and discharge planning.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure patient safety and provide milieu interventions
- Lead psychoeducational, process-oriented, multi-family, family program, and family weekend groups
- Facilitate clinical assessments, admission assessments, and the admission process
- Conduct individual and family therapy sessions
- Complete timely clinical documentation
- Participate in weekly treatment team meetings and communicate treatment goals
- Complete therapy sessions aligned with patients’ level of care
- Provide utilization reviews and clinical information to insurance companies for authorizations
- Respond to family members’ calls and emails within specified timeframes
- Assess patients for suicidality and danger to self or others
- Provide clinical support to team members when needed
- Coordinate with Utilization Review and Business Departments regarding authorization and payment
- Begin discharge planning on admission and complete discharge sessions
- Confirm discharge appointments and communicate with referral sources and outpatient providers
- Facilitate patient transfers to higher levels of care
- Participate in clinical outreach and program tours
- Manage crises in sessions and the milieu
- Support milieu staff and collaborate with the treatment team to ensure clinical quality
- For RTC roles, provide monthly on-call facility support and communicate facility issues to the On Call Administrator or Regional Director
Requirements:
- This role requires being an LPC, LCSW, or LMFT in New Jersey; candidates licensed in VA, CT, CA, WA, OR, KS, IL, FL, or TX may apply if willing to obtain NJ licensure
- Master’s or Doctorate degree in a relevant field, required
- Completion of state requirements and state license to conduct therapeutic interventions required
- PSYCHPACT provider preferred
- Ability to work Monday-Friday, 11AM-7PM
- For RTC roles, provide on-call support at least once per month and return program phone calls within 20 minutes while on call












