Therapist II

Job Title: Therapist II

Location: RWJUH Somerset

Department Name: Eating Disorders Outpatient

Req #: 0000266193

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $64,600.00 - $114,200.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Therapist II

At RWJBarnabas Health, our Therapist II becomes part of a purpose-driven environment where compassion, clinical excellence, and patient-centered care create meaningful opportunities to support children, adolescents, and families on their mental health journey. This Therapist II role offers opportunities for professional growth, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a trauma-informed culture committed to safety, healing, and continuous improvement. As a Therapist II, you will play an essential role in delivering evidence-based behavioral health services, developing individualized treatment plans, and partnering with a multidisciplinary team dedicated to promoting resilience, recovery, and emotional well-being. 

A typical day as a Therapist II may look like:

• Provide assessment, prevention/intervention, education, treatment and discharge services to adult psychiatric patients and their families
• The clinician will also actively participate in Department specific and hospital wide activities to ensure regulatory compliance enhance program development and quality improvement
• Provides individual, group and family therapy to psychiatric patients for purposes of crisis intervention, ongoing treatment, evaluation of clinical progress and determination of future course of treatment
• Enhances professional competence by regularly attending continuing education programs
• Competes all necessary paperwork and keeps up to date records on all patients: This includes psychosocial assessments, outcome study, group, individual and family sessions, treatment plans, progress notes, telephone contacts, and discharge summaries
• Works collaboratively with members of the treatment team; attends and participates in scheduled treatment rounds
• Covers additional groups and/or patients when required by supervisor
• Works with team members to monitor health care resources, and interacts with insurance companies and case managers while promoting quality patient care
• Interacts with and coordinates efforts with other clinicians regarding treatment planning and conjointly providing, clinical services
• Maintains regular contact with referral sources and provides timely and complete information regarding the patient s treatment progress and discharge plan
• Facilitates referral of individuals to ancillary and/or alternative providers when appropriate
• Actively markets Eating disorder Program to internal and external customers
• Sends thank you letters to referral sources, participates in community outreach, professional associations, and training sessions
• Provides mental health/eating disorder information to patients and their families, hospital staff, and the community at large
• Applies the knowledge of growth and development over the lifespan
• Applies the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served on his or her assigned unit, i,
• e,Infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
• Assesses data reflective of each patient s status and interprets information needed in order to identify each patient s age requirements relative to his or her age specific health care needs
• Abides by standards established by the hospital, state and federal regulatory agencies
• Performs all duties in a friendly and courteous manner offering assistance to physicians, patients, families, visitors and co-workers
• Extends courtesy and consideration to others in all interpersonal relationships, including telephone contacts
• Demonstrates the ability to respond to instruction from peers or superiors in order to complete department tasks
• Demonstrates the ability to determine the proper time to discuss differences in work strategy
• Performs other departmental duties as prescribed by supervisory personnel
• Assists in the performances of non-technical tasks within the department
• Demonstrates the awareness of safety, security, life safety, emergency preparedness and utility and equipment management policies competencies
• Adheres to Standard Precautions and to Safety and Infection Control policies
• Ensures that appropriate standards of practice follow corporate compliance guidelines, and that results of accreditation surveys and licensure reviews by NJSDOH and JCAHO are satisfactory
• Acts in an ethical and legal manner, and assures that all actions are in the best interest of both patients and the hospital
• Other Duties as assinged

To be considered for this Therapist II opportunity:

• Masters degree from an accredited school of Social Work or Counseling degree from an accredited school, PhD from an accredited college or university
• Licensure: NJ State licensure, LCSW, LPC is preferred, LSW, LAC is acceptable depending on experience
• Excellent customer satisfaction skills
• Two years or more years job related clinical experience