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Mental Health Practitioner Position Description

Position Title: Mental Health Practitioner – Life skills trainer.

Contact:

Send letter of interest and resume to:

Jessica Mathwig, LICSW (952) 835-6650 (fax) or jmathwig.olson.por@gmail.com

Minimum Qualifications:

Candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university and have at least 2,0000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of mental health services to clients with mental illnesses. Candidates enrolled in a graduate program in psychology, social work or related are encouraged to apply.

Position Summary:

Under close clinical supervision of a Licensed Mental Health Professional, the mental health practitioner will provide in-home life skills training to individual and families. Treatment goals will be developed to assist participants with psychosocial skills that are medically necessary to help the client reach an age appropriate developmental level.

P.O.R. is committed to building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from minority candidates.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: *designated essential functions of position

  • Provide CTSS individual and family skills training in the child’s home, school or community that addresses the behaviors and areas of needed life skills to minimize the negative impact of the mental health diagnosis on daily living.
  • Must have knowledge and understanding of mental illness.
  • Guide clients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with problems.
  • Support clients and family members to assist in adjusting to life and making changes.
  • Develops and implements treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge. Monitor and review treatment plans every 90 days.
  • Collaborate with other staff members to evaluate client’s progress.
  • Evaluate clients’ progress in resolving identified problems and moving towards defined objectives.
  • Modify treatment activities and approaches as needed in order to comply with changes in clients’ status.
  • Commitment to each client at least 6 months of skills training.
  • Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients’ treatment.
  • Responsible to enter all billable time into our record keeping system within 24 hours of service date.
  • Expectation that you are able to work with a variety of ages, presenting concerns and cultural backgrounds. You must be able to build strong relationships with reluctant clients and their families.
  • Must attend clinical supervision as required by Medical Assistance guidelines.
  • Clients served: Children up to age 18 with a mental health diagnosis made by a mental health professional. Some children may have several diagnoses.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Rule 47 and/or Therapist Position Description

Position Title: Rule 47 and/or Therapist.

Reports to:

Director of Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) Services, or to the assigned Clinical Supervisor

Minimum Qualifications:

Position Summary:

Under close clinical supervision and oversight of the Director of CTSS Services or the assigned Clinical Supervisor, the Mental Health Practitioner – Life Skills Trainer (the “Life Skills Trainer”) will provide life skills training to POR individual and family clients. Treatment goals will be developed by the Life Skills Trainer in consultation with POR’s Director of CTSS Services or the Life Skills Trainer’s assigned Clinical Supervisor on an individual client basis to assist and promote medically necessary psychosocial skills for client participants in order to help the client reach an age appropriate developmental level. The Life Skills Trainer must have a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Sciences degree in psychology or a related field of study, at least 2,000 hours of experience in providing mental health services, basic computer skills, effective writing skills, and good interpersonal skills.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Maintain confidentiality of POR’s records relating to clients’ treatment.
  • Encourage clients to participate in the learning of new skills to engage symptoms of mental health.
  • Assist and guide clients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their life issues and challenges.
  • Support and encourage clients, individually and in family sessions, to adjusting to life challenges and to making changes and developing skills which promote their life development.
  • Collect information about clients through interviews with clients and interested third parties, and through client observations.
  • Act as client advocate in order to coordinate services necessary to help resolve client emergency issues and problems in crisis situations.
  • Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge, and under the oversight of the Life Skills Trainer’s direct supervisor.
  • Collaborate with other POR staff members to perform client intake assessments and develop treatment plans.
  • Evaluate clients’ physical and mental condition based on interviews, observations and review of client information.
  • Assist, support and encourage family members in their understanding of, dealing with, and supporting clients.
  • Evaluate clients’ progress in resolving identified problems and moving towards defined objectives.
  • Modify, under the oversight of the Life Skills Trainer’s direct supervisor, treatment activities and approaches as needed in order to comply with changes in clients’ status.
  • Monitor clients’ use of prescribed medications.
  • Meet all applicable requirements for mental health practitioner as stated in the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Medical Assistance (“Medical Assistance”) health care program guidelines.
  • Commit to provide and provide at least six (6) months of skills training to each assigned POR client.
  • Client population served by Life Skills Trainer: Children up to age 18 with a mental health diagnosis made by a POR or other mental health professional. Some children may have several diagnoses.
  • For each client: complete an intake assessment, develop an individual treatment plan, and provide appropriate Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS) skills training, in consultation with the Director of CTSS Services.
  • Provide CTSS individual or family skills training in the child’s home, school or community that addresses the behaviors and areas of needed life skills to minimize the negative effect of the mental health diagnosis’ impacts on daily living.
  • The Life Skills Trainer is responsible for entering all billable time into POR’s Procentive system within 24 hours following the service date.
  • The Life Skills Trainer is expected to be able to work with children across a wide spectrum of ages, presented concerns, and cultural backgrounds, and the Life Skills Trainer must be able to build strong relationships with clients and their families who may be reluctant to participate in the program.
  • Must work under appropriate POR clinical supervision as may be required by Medical Assistance health care program guidelines.