Mental Health Provider

IHMS USA, Inc. provides medical services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, including individuals and families who are migrating, displaced, or affected by conflict, disaster, or disease. For more than 20 years, IHMS has delivered compassionate, high-quality healthcare services across the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, IHMS USA focuses on supporting communities across the Western Hemisphere while drawing on the global experience and best practices developed by IHMS teams around the world. Our work is driven by a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care in complex environments. To support this mission, IHMS has developed accredited and compliant management systems that help ensure quality care while tracking and coordinating every aspect of patient health services. These systems promote transparency, strengthen safeguarding practices, and provide near real-time visibility into clinical operations. We understand that many of the individuals we serve are navigating difficult and uncertain circumstances. That’s why our care model includes access to comprehensive behavioral health services when needed, ensuring patients receive both medical and emotional support. For healthcare professionals, working with IHMS means being part of a mission-driven team dedicated to making a meaningful impact. Our teams operate around the world and stand ready to provide compassionate care wherever it is needed most. For more information, please visit: www.ihmsusa.us . This position is contingent on contract award. Provide on-site mental health services to patients in accordance with the contract, current standards, community standards of care, American Correctional Association (ACA) standards, and other applicable accreditation standards incorporated into the contract. Deliver culturally competent and trauma-informed mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, psychotherapy, suicide and homicide risk assessment, segregation monitoring, serious mental illness identification and monitoring, emergency response support, and continuity-of-care documentation. Support timely screening, clinically indicated treatment, transfer coordination, off-site referral processes, quality improvement, and accurate health record documentation. Telehealth may not be used for daily mental health treatment of patients on suicide watch and tele-behavioral health may not be used to remove or change suicide precautions. Key Responsibilities: Participate in initial medical and mental health screening completed within twelve (12) hours of patient arrival and complete or support mental health assessments following positive screening findings or clinically indicated referral.  Conduct mental health evaluations as determined by the Facility Local Health Authority and provide clinically appropriate mental health and substance use treatment, including individual psychotherapy, group therapy, clinical counseling, diagnosis, and treatment planning within scope of licensure.  Assess and manage suicide and homicide risk; perform suicide watch contacts, segregation monitoring, and serious mental illness monitoring as clinically indicated and within scope of licensure.  Identify, track, record, and maintain required documentation for patients with serious mental disorders or conditions and support required notification, weekly reporting, and safe release planning processes.  Provide or support enhanced mental health services required by the facility care level, including evidence-based group programming, trauma-informed interventions, and coordination with psychiatry services available on-site or by telehealth with twenty-four (24) hour on-call availability.  Deliver care for emergent, urgent, acute, chronic, and emergency behavioral health needs and support immediate response, initial stabilization, and referral for off-site emergency care when clinically necessary.  Comply with telehealth restrictions for patients on suicide watch: no daily treatment through telehealth and no removal or modification of suicide precautions through tele-behavioral health.  Review available medical records, document records reviewed in the electronic health record and use contract-required screening and assessment tools or equivalent evidence-based tools as directed for patient care.  Prepare accurate, timely, and complete clinical documentation in the electronic health record, including assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, monitoring documentation, notifications, and continuity-of-care information.  Prepare and provide medical transfer summaries or equivalent documentation, including current diagnoses, medications, scheduled or medically indicated appointments, consultations, and required continuity-of-care information for patient transfers.  Support off-site care coordination by working with the Field Medical Coordinator on referrals, Medical Payment Authorization Request processes, community provider coordination, and required post-emergency documentation timelines.  Notify the required contract stakeholders within required timelines regarding serious mental disorders or conditions, suicide precautions, emergency transfers, and other reportable patient care events.  Participate in continuous quality improvement, risk management, annual policy review, chart review, corrective action follow-up, and other quality activities required by the contract.  Maintain Basic Life Support certification from a widely recognized certifying body using instructor-led skills training and complete initial, annual, and any more frequent emergency response training required by the contract.  Comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws, privacy and records requirements, credentialing requirements, security vetting requirements, training requirements, employee conduct standards, and other contract requirements applicable to healt