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Job description
Overview
The Adult Mental Health Provider provides responsive, client-centered, and recovery-focused community-based counseling, rehabilitative and case management services designed to restore health and maximize of life, independence & functioning for adults and children diagnosed with mental illness and behavioral disorders.
Type Part-time & Full-time, not less than 0.6 FTE
Location Duluth
Pay Hourly, $17.50- $18.25 per hour
Responsibilities
Mental Health Practitioners work as part of an integrated treatment team, adhering to standards to serve adults and children diagnosed with mental illness by doing the following:
Assessing functional strengths, resources needs
Developing individualized, person-centered treatment/community support plans
Implementing the interventions identified in the plan
Referring persons served to other needed services, resources & supports coordinating and monitoring the quality these services
Maintaining detailed records of all
ARMHS Provider Qualifications
Education + Experience Qualifications (Group home experience DOES qualify)
Education : Has completed at least 30 or 45 quarter hours in behavioral science or related fields.
Experience : At least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults or children with mental illness, substance use disorder, or emotional disturbance; or traumatic brain injury or developmental disabilities and completes training on mental illness recovery from mental illness, mental health de-escalation techniques, co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, and psychotropic medications and side effects.
Education Only Qualifications
Holds a master's degree or higher in the behavioral sciences or related fields;
or
holds a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences or related fields and completes a practicum or internship that (1) requires direct interaction with adults or children served, and (2) is focused on behavioral sciences or related fields.
Experience-Only Qualifications
Has at least 4,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults or children with mental illness, substance use disorder, or emotional disturbance; or traumatic brain injury or developmental disabilities and completes training on mental illness, recovery from mental illness, mental health de-escalation techniques, co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, and psychotropic medications and side effects.
Has at least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults or children as described above, and receives clinical supervision as required by applicable statutes and rules at least once a week from a mental health professional until the requirement of 4,000 hours of supervised experience is met.
Graduate Internship Placement
Is a graduate student in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields and is formally assigned by an accredited college or university to an agency or facility for clinical training.
Alternatives for Persons Serving Non-English Speaking Populations
A Practitioner is fluent in the non-English language of the ethnic group to which at least 50 percent of the practitioner's clients belong, completes 40 hours of training in the delivery of services to adults with mental illness or children with emotional disturbance, and receives clinical supervision from a mental health professional at least once a week until the requirement of 2,000 hours of supervised experience is met.
Mental Health Worker Qualifications
A mental health rehabilitation worker
is at least 21 years of age;
has a high school diploma or equivalent;
has successfully completed 30 hours of training during the two years immediately prior to the date of hire, or before of direct services, in all of the following areas:
recovery from mental illness
mental health de-escalation techniques
recipient rights
recipient-centered individual treatment planning
behavioral terminology
mental illness
co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
psychotropic medications and side effects
functional assessment
local community resources
adult vulnerability confidentiality
and, additionally,
has 2,000 hours of supervised work experience in the delivery of mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness, traumatic brain injury, substance use disorder, or developmental disability; or
has a total of 15 semester hours or 23 quarter hours in behavioral sciences or related fields;
or
three years of personal life experience with serious mental illness; or
three years of life experience as a primary caregiver to an adult with a serious mental illness, traumatic brain injury, substance use disorder, or developmental disability;
or
is fluent in the non-English language or competent in the culture of the ethnic group to which at least 20 percent of the mental health rehabilitation worker's clients belong,
and
receives during the first 2,000 hours of work, monthly documented individual clinical supervision by a mental health professional;
has 18 hours of documented field supervision by a mental health professional or mental health practitioner during the first 160 hours of contact work with recipients, and at least six hours of field supervision quarterly during the following year;
has and of charting of recipient contacts during field supervision by a mental health professional or mental health practitioner; and
has 15 hours of additional continuing education on mental health topics during the first year of employment and 15 hours during every additional year of employment.
Employees must have the ability to pass MVR check, maintain a valid driver’s license and vehicle insurance.
Benefits
Health Insurance
Competitive compensation and progressive pay scales
Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
401(K)
PTO
Flexible Scheduling Options
Paid Training & Career Development
Mileage and other expense reimbursements
Worksite address
duluth, MN, 55806, US
Who can apply
Review the original listing for work authorization, qualifications and employer requirements.