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SpringPath Mental Health Services

MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER - FLOAT- $2500 SIGNING BONUS

SpringPath Mental Health Services, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, 55199


Our CompanySpringPath Mental Health Services

OverviewThe Mental Health Practitioner/Case Manager works as part of an Assertive Community Team that provides care and treatment for clients experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, demonstrating significant functional impairments, and may have co-occurring chemical dependency and/or personality disorder. The Practitioner is viewed as a primary agent of hope and change and is required to work in full partnership with the client in his/her recovery process. The practitioner has a two-focused level of responsibility: first, for the care, welfare, treatment, and safety of the clients as individuals, and secondly, for the facilitation of a work and treatment culture that promotes trans-disciplinary teamwork, professionalism, cultural competency, and adherence to best practice principles and interventions. The Practitioner has responsibility for client-specific and program outcomes. Primary duties include assessment, crisis assessment and management, planning, individual counseling, skills teaching, group work, case management, household management, financial eligibility assistance, and on-call.

Responsibilities

Conducts self in a professional and ethical manner in all work-related functions

Demonstrates productive individual and teamwork behaviors

Conducts overall rehabilitation goal planning, which may include living, learning, working, social, and spiritual environments

Conducts assessments: mental health status review, suicidal, vulnerable adult & immediate needs, functional, living skill, resource, chemical dependency, and vocational/employment

Interprets and summarizes findings with recommended treatment/rehabilitative activities and goals

Develops the individual treatment/rehabilitative plan

Monitors the individual treatment/rehabilitative process

Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies

Prevents crisis at the lowest level of escalation

Manages and oversees client financial needs, living arrangement services, and monitors medication

Facilitates transition and recovery support services

Adheres to Data Privacy Practices/HIPAA

Communicates, receives, and writes information clearly and accurately

Reads and interprets clinical assessments and findings

Writes crisis/treatment/behavioral plans with differential goals and objectives

Writes progress notes, summaries, and discharges

Monitors and records medication administration activities

Provides objective verbal and written critical incident analysis

Documents essential activities related to licensure, welfare, and safety

Maintains service standards

Achieves client-specific and program outcomes

Participates in the 360-degree performance evaluation process

Increases knowledge and skills based on client and program needs

Teaches others

Seeks supervisory oversight

Seeks professional growth

Rotates on-call for emergency consultation and must be able to return to work on short notice as needed

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences from an accredited college or university

4,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or holds a graduate degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields and has at least 2,000 post-BA hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness

License which may be required based on education and standards determined by educational/degree guidelines

All Practitioners are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner

The agency encourages staff to seek license at the highest standard permitted by his/her education and experience

Ability to conduct functional assessments, develop treatment plans, provide crisis and behavioral management, provide goal-directed individual counseling, facilitate groups, teach skills, provide case management, problem-solve, and communicate effectively, orally, and in writing

Demonstration through training and testing within a designated time frame of the following core competency areas: First Aid/CPR, Data Privacy (HIPAA), Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, Medication Monitoring/Administration, Principles and Techniques of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (including Overall Rehabilitation Goal Setting, Functional Assessment, Skills Teaching and Programming), Empathy/Motivational Training, Working with Persons Experiencing Mania, Hallucinations, and Delusions, and Relapse Prevention Planning

About our Line of BusinessSpringPath Mental Health Services is a leading agency in providing recovery-oriented and psychiatric rehabilitation services. Our agencies provide care and treatment for clients who are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, demonstrating significant functional impairments, and may have co-occurring chemical dependency. Founded on the core principles and values of hope, partnership, choice, and self-direction, our program and services help individuals develop the skills and access the resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in the living, learning, working, and social environment of their choice. Services provided include Intensive Residential Treatment Service (IRTS), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), with a focus on the evidence-based practices of Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Supported Employment, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The cornerstone of our work is the relationship with the person served during the recovery process. For more information, please visit

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Salary RangeUSD $55,000.00 / Year

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