Lead Behavioral Health Therapist (Virtual Reality) – Addiction Recovery Center; Full time

Lead Behavioral Health Therapist (Virtual Reality) – Addiction Recovery Center

Bring your passion To Texas Health So We Are Better + Together

Work location: Addiction Recovery Center 240 North Miller Road Mansfield, TX 76063

Work hours: Full time, 8:00am-5:00pm – Tuesday - Saturday

Department highlights

• Flexible schedules
• Creative therapies providing personal expression and multidisciplinary treatment
• A collaborative team approach

Here’s What You Need

• Master's Degree Counseling or Social Work required
• 1 Year of healthcare related Counseling or Social Work Required
• 4 Years of healthcare related Counseling or Social Work Preferred
• LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker Upon Hire Req Or
• LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker Upon Hire Req Or
• LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor Upon Hire Req O
• LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Upon Hire Req Or
• BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support Prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Upon Hire Req And
• CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training maintained annually 90 Days Req And
• AHAFA - American Heart Association First Aid Certification maintained annually 90 Days Req

What You Will Do

Leadership/Clinical Leadership

• Leads the Virtual Reality (VR) program with full accountability for implementation, daily operations, and outcomes.
• Ensures VR sessions are conducted safely, consistently, and according to established clinical workflows.
• Serves as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert for all VR-related inquiries, troubleshooting, and staff support.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets VR utilization and outcome data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Presents VR data, findings, and recommendations to leadership and interdisciplinary teams to support decision-making.
• Trains and mentors’ staff on VR technology, clinical applications, and best practices to promote program adoption and sustainability.
• Partners with leadership to expand or refine VR offerings based on patient needs, departmental goals, and emerging evidence.
• Maintains all VR equipment, software, and documentation to ensure readiness, safety, and compliance.
• Escalates issues to appropriate level of leadership and coordinates mitigation activities as needed
• Resolves daily staffing issues, seeking assistance from leadership as needed
• Serves as a role model/mentor for staff in the areas of professional development, professional practice, and continuing education.
• Initiates and conducts meetings as appropriate.
• Seeks opportunities for self-development in leadership.
• Integrate team-building strategies and principles of group processes in interactions with staff.
• Contribute to creating and maintaining a collaborative work environment.
• Collaborate with all customer groups (staff, physicians, patients, family, external customers) to determine customer expectations.
• Assists leadership to remedy actual vs. expected customer satisfaction performance gaps as needed 20%
• Provides individual, family, and group psychotherapy and counseling utilizing modalities consistent with the facility philosophy.
• Conducts unstructured individual, family, and group therapy as scheduled or ordered by physician to address goals identified on patient treatment plan.
• Provides didactic group therapy as scheduled and assigned.
• Adapts treatment to reflect age-specific, developmental and cultural considerations.
• Demonstrates competence with adolescent treatment.
• Demonstrates competency with cognitive behavioral therapy.
• Effective individual, family, and group therapy provided in a timely manner meeting group therapy baseline competency elements
• Documentation of therapies provided is clear, concise and reflective of required level of clinical expertise.
• Patient goals for treatment and progress towards goals reflected in documentation.
• Groups planned, delivered, and documented in a timely and effective manner meeting patient’s goals for treatment
• Knowledge of CBT and other appropriate brief therapies and interventions evident
• Knowledge of age-specific and cultural-specific dynamics demonstrated
• Other duties as assigned

Additional perks of being a Texas Health Behavioral Health Therapist

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment programs as well as several other benefits .
• Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
• Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.

If you’re ready to join us in our mission to improve the health of our community, then let’s show the world how we’re even better together.

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Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org .

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