Senior Clinician, Eating Disorders - Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center/HCPC at UTHealth Houston (Finance)

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Position Summary:

The UTHealth Center for Eating Disorders is a multi-level of care eating disorder treatment program, affiliated with McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). Our center is a collaboration between the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics' Division of Adolescent Medicine. Located at the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center at UTHealth Houston, our interdisciplinary team of psychologists, therapists, medical providers, and registered dieticians, will comprehensively provide evidence-based psychological treatments, medical monitoring, medication management, and dietary support to adolescents and adults with eating disorders across our Outpatient, Intensive Outpatient, and Partial Hospitalization Programs.

As a part of the UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus, we operate out of the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country. Located within the Texas Medical Center, we are uniquely situated to provide collaborative, interdisciplinary care for patients, and training for students, across departments and institutions. The UTHealth Center for Eating Disorders' mission is four-fold:

1. Clinical: We aim to provide the Greater Houston community with the highest quality, accessible, cost-effective, research-supported treatment that our field has to offer.

2. Research : We seek to engage in innovative research aimed at enhancing our understanding and treatment of eating disorders across the lifespan.

3. Education : Our goal is to provide students and trainees across disciplines of behavioral sciences, psychiatry, adolescent medicine, internal medicine, and nutrition, with expert-led education and training opportunities in the provision of eating disorder-specific services.

4. Community : Through our community outreach efforts, we offer didactics on eating disorders screening, assessment, prevention, psychoeducation, and treatment to community providers, parents, and families, as well as middle and high school students, teachers, and counselors.

Position Summary:

The UTHealth Center for Eating Disorders is seeking two full-time, licensed mental health professionals (LPC, LCSW, LMSW) to provide clinical services across our Outpatient (OP), Intensive Outpatient (IOP), and Partial Hospitalization (PHP) Programs. Clinical responsibilities will include conducting comprehensive initial assessments, treatment planning, and therapy (individual, family, and group) for adolescents (12-17) and adults (18+) with eating disorders.

Through our insurance-based, Outpatient Eating Disorders Clinic, candidates would offer traditional, evidence-based, outpatient therapy for adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), bulimia nervosa, and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED), with and without comorbid anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Applicants chosen would adherently provide Maudsley Family-Based Treatment (FBT), Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT-E), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ARFID (CBT-AR), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Those with interest in expanding outpatient services to include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) would be enthusiastically welcomed to do so. All clinicians are expected to dedicate at least .2 FTE each week to the provision of outpatient services, with additional opportunities for internal moonlighting for those that desire supplemental income.

Through our Adolescent Eating Disorders PHP/IOP, we usea stepped-care approach to the treatment of adolescents with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and OSFED. If families and their loved ones are struggling to improve at our outpatient level of care, or are simply in need of more support, our stepped-care approach to treatment allows us to seamlessly provide patients with the same therapy at higher levels of care, while systematically integrating additional evidence-based treatments that are shown to be effective in addressing their eating concerns.

Our IOP is soundly rooted in FBT, CBT-E, and ERP, while our PHP expands on this model to offers additional biotemperament-based tracks of DBT and RO DBT. All clinicians are expected to dedicate at least .8 FTE each week to the provision of PHP/IOP services. Program hours are 7am-3pm.

Additional responsibilities include the opportunity to: supervise practicum students/ interns; co-present didactics to trainees across disciplines of psychology, social work, counseling, nutrition, psychiatry, and adolescent medicine; engage in presentations geared towards the local community; attend regular interdisciplinary consultation team meetings; and meet individually for regular case consultation with the program director.

Location: Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center/HCPC at UTHealth Houston

Dept.: BSC-PHP IOP Co-Occurring Disorders

Status: Full-Time

FLSA: Exempt

Position Key Accountabilities:

Essential Functions

• Provides indirect services to patients. Acts as an advocate for the patient/family with the treatment team.
• Provides direct services to patients including: biopsychosocial/psychosocial assessment, discharge planning, and treatment that includes: individual, group and family therapy, crisis intervention and treatment planning.
• Provides oversight of patient's care, progress in treatment, and progress toward discharge in order to prevent both the over-utilization and the under-utilization of inpatient treatment services. This is accomplished through feedback to and from the patient, significant others, the treatment team, and UR and community resources.
• Works with a multidisciplinary treatment team to develop an individualized treatment, and a discharge plan that enables patients to quickly return to outpatient treatment programs. Works closely with physicians in identifying diagnoses to assist in the treatment process. Develops a discharge plan that will support patient's ongoing recovery and development.
• Assesses the psychosocial functioning of patients at admission and throughout the treatment program; conducts interviews with patients and significant others to determine assets as well as challenges to optimal patient functioning both while in the program and upon discharge to a lesser restrictive level of care.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with community resources to assist patients medical needs at discharge for on-going treatment, residence, financial support, transportation, education, and vocational rehabilitation.
• Refers patients and family to community resources.
• Applies for court ordered mental health services for patients unable or unwilling to consent to treatment deemed necessary to protect the life of the patient or others. Presents to the Probate Court, both in writing and in oral testimony, reports of the specific patients behaviors prompting the request for involuntary admissions for services.
• Provides training to staff and supervision of students and incumbents in the Clinician I position.
• Provides consultation within department regarding subject matter expertise (i.e., discharge planning, etc.).
• Participates in community outreach activities such as speaker boards. Serves on committees as appointed by the Director, Social Services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) by State of Texas required or
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by State of Texas required or
• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) by Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors required

Minimum Education:
Master's Degree in a behavioral science required
Minimum Experience:
2 years of experience in a mental health setting required
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
Security Sensitive: This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215
Veteran Information:

Military occupations that relate to the initial selection criteria and registration or licensure requirements for this position may include but are not limited to: 0925, 46N1D, 46N1E, 46N1F, 46N1G, 46N1J, 46N1R, 46N3D, 46N3E, 46N3F, 46N3G, 46N3,46N3J, 46N3R, 46N4D, 46N4E, 46N4F, 46N4G, 46N4J, 46N4R, 46NXD, 46NXE, 46NXF, 46NXG, 46NXJ, 46NXR, 46NX.

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Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.