Jonesboro Mental Health Professional

PROGRAM: Mental Health Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Services, LLC

REPORTS TO: Clinical Manager (LMHP); MHP Team Manager

SUPERVISED BY: Regional Manager; Regional and agency Clinical Manager (LMHP); MHP Team Manager; Corporate Compliance Officer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Provide Strength-based, solution-focused supportive therapeutic services in the community.

 Be knowledgeable of your clients including their strengths, diagnosis, treatment goals and treatment plan.

 Assess each recipient for Strengths, Resources, and Goals within first 30 days of treatment; provide Strength-based planning and treatment on an ongoing basis.

 Ensure each recipient has an Individualized Crisis Recovery Plan on file within 30 days to reduce risk of harm to self or others, identify precursors, reduce hospitalization, and restore stability.

 Participate in collaborative meetings with Rehabilitation Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed.

 Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and service definitions.

 Communicate client’s status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.

 Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient.

 Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all “no shows,” and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff.

 Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.

 Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Team Manager.

 Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline.

 Return phone calls promptly

 Follow all safety rules

 Obtain 20 training hours as required for a full time MHP or 16 training hours as required for a part time MHP yearly

 Actively participate in all evaluations conducted by Rehabilitation Services

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:  A Mental Health Professional (MHP) must meet the following educational criteria:

A Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology or Sociology