About this opportunity
Sharon Healthcare lists this QUALIFIED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL (QMHP) opportunity in peoria, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Qualified Mental Health Professional
Help adults living with serious mental illness build stability, skills, independence, and successful community connections.
Position Overview
The QMHP provides recovery-oriented clinical services, coordinates individualized care, supports the treatment team, and promotes trauma-informed, person-centered rehabilitation.
Key Responsibilities
Participate in clinical assessments, individualized treatment planning, progress reviews, and discharge preparation.
Provide recovery-oriented individual and group interventions that build coping, symptom-management, interpersonal, and community-living skills.
Monitor and document resident progress toward treatment and recovery goals.
Provide clinical direction and supervision to assigned mental health and rehabilitation staff.
Respond appropriately to behavioral-health concerns and psychiatric crises.
Coordinate services with the interdisciplinary team, residents, families or representatives, and community providers.
Protect resident rights and maintain timely, accurate, regulation-compliant clinical documentation.
Qualifying QMHP Pathways
Applicants must qualify through at least one of the following:
Meet the requirements of an Illinois Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA).
Registered Nurse with a current license and qualifying mental-health training, supervised clinical experience, or specialized training.
Licensed Occupational Therapist with at least one year of clinical experience in a mental-health setting.
Master's or doctoral degree in counseling and guidance, rehabilitation counseling, social work, psychology, pastoral counseling, family therapy, or a related field, plus:
At least 1,000 hours of practicum or internship under clinical and educational supervision; or
One year of documented clinical experience under the supervision of a QMHP.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with serious mental illness, psychiatric rehabilitation, recovery-oriented treatment planning, group facilitation, crisis intervention, clinical documentation, and Illinois SMHRF or DHS-DMH requirements.
Training Requirement
The selected candidate must complete prescribed DHS-DMH training before assuming QMHP duties and complete additional prescribed training annually.
Benefits
Medical and dental insurance, life insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid vacation, and more!
Worksite address
peoria, IL, 61639, US
Who can apply
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