Psychologist Way of life Medicine Per Diem at Kaiser Permanente

Description:

Job Summary:

Provides psychological well being evaluation, analysis, remedy and disaster intervention providers for grownup and/or little one members who current themselves from psychiatric analysis with a broad vary of psychological well being wants. Collaborates with treating doctor, psychiatric and allied well being skilled workforce to plan and direct every particular person members remedy program.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates medical remedy packages for the analysis, remedy, and/or referral of Health Plan members with acute or persistent psychological sickness. Participates in employees conferences to pick out, plan, and consider remedy packages. Provides outpatient psychotherapy to people, {couples}, households and teams. Instructs and counsels sufferers and their households concerning compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens and adherence to prescribed remedy regimens, throughout the scope of observe. May administer specialised therapeutic procedures, as applicable.  Provides applicable help to members household. May develop and conducts psychoeducational lessons and teams.
• May conduct psychological assessments, together with take a look at administration, interpretation, and proposals. Prepares consumption summaries, remedy plans, and case summaries and maintains ongoing confidential information. Charts members remedy and progress in accord with state and NCQA rules and in line with accepted group requirements. May be required to take part within the division on-call rotation.
• Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating sufferers for psychotropic medicines, throughout the scope of observe. Utilizes sources of private and non-private companies and group organizations to fulfill the wants of the members remedy. May develop, implements, and evaluates behavioral drugs and well being psychology packages in quite a lot of settings, together with major care. Provides session to different care suppliers and well being educators on issues regarding psychological well being, well being psychology and behavioral drugs. Provides medical supervision to psychology doctoral interns, psychology postdoctoral residents, and different psychological well being trainees/fellows as needed.
• May supervise Post Masters Fellows, Associate Clinical Social Workers, Associate Marriage Family Therapists or Associate Professional Clinical Counselors as wanted if supervision course is accomplished.
• May present applicable help to members household, together with rationalization of remedy, directions in methods to help remedy and interventions to extend acceptance of and adherence to remedy, at members request.
• Utilizes sources of private and non-private companies and group organizations to fulfill the wants of the members remedy to incorporate referral of the member and/or members household to exterior sources, as applicable. Participates in departmental program improvement, implementation and analysis.
• Reports security issues to mandated reporting companies.