Mental Health Professional

Job Description

Job Description

The Co-Occurring Professional provides advanced clinical services in coordination with the treatment team consistent with Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Standards of Care. The primary purpose is to provide group therapy and individual counseling/therapy services to people with co-occurring substance abuse disorders and mental health conditions. This role integrates mental health treatment with addiction recovery within a 12 Step, abstinence-based model.

In the residential setting, the Co-Occurring Professional provides intensive, milieu-based treatment within a 24/7 therapeutic environment. This includes continuous observation and assessment of patient functioning, real-time intervention, integration of clinical services into daily living activities, and active participation in the therapeutic community. Residential services require increased frequency of patient contact, immediate crisis response, and coordination of care across all aspects of the patient’s daily routine to support stabilization and recovery.

The Co-Occurring Professional participates as a member of a multidisciplinary team, providing mental health and substance use treatment services to patients and clients, including assessment and diagnosis, individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and ongoing care planning.

In the absence of the program manager, assume leadership and as possible, supervisory responsibility, of the clinic to ensure coordination of staff and clinical services and continuity of patient care. Provide clinical supervision to students and interns to facilitate development of clinical competency and ethical practice.

• Provide Residential care for Co-Occurring Enhanced substance use disorder and mental health treatment services within a 24/7 structured therapeutic environment, utilizing continuous assessment, milieu-based interventions, and high-frequency patient engagement, according to the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation standards of care, policies, and procedures. (All Addiction Counselor 1 & 2 Key Results Areas and Activity standards are expected to be present.)
• To represent Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation services to various audiences to ensure consistent knowledge about services, processes and participation.
• Facilitate and demonstrate communication of patient information to internal and external resources for patients according to Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation policy and procedures and consistent with Federal Confidentiality (CFR 42) and Health Information Portability and Privacy Act (CFR 45) and mandated reporting requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in behavioral health
• License to independently practice mental health and SUD services in state working in:
• • MN: LPCC, LMFT, LICSW
• MN: Must be trained in Rule 31
• Current CPR certification or obtain within 30 days (fully remote work employees exempt).
• • Certification must be from American Red Cross or American Heart Association.
• Must satisfactorily pass a state/license specific background check
• Individual National Provider Identification (NPI) number

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