QMHP, Intensive In-Home

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary
The Qualified Mental Health Professional is responsible for providing individual skills training, mentoring, case
management and care coordination services for clients in the Intensive In-Home Program. These services are
primarily provided in the home.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Manages a caseload of clients, providing services on an intensive basis and utilizing short-term, solution
focused treatment strategies
Clearly identifies problem areas and needs, strategies, and service objectives supports in determining and
meeting service objectives and to identify additional resources and supports
Prepares written service plan, incorporating input from clients, involved service providers and wraparound
team members, and clearly identifying problem
Provides psycho-educational service to clients, including individual, family, and interventions and
issues-specific or educational groups (parenting skills, anger management)
Responds to crisis situations with twenty-four hour a day availability
Documents case activities for both clinical and billing purposes
Prepares progress reports as required by referral source or service purchaser
Participates in Child Specific Team, Family Assessment and Planning Team, and other interdisciplinary,
diagnostic, or planning meetings
Collaborates and coordinates with other case involved service providers and professionals, such as attorneys,
school personnel, social workers, and probation counselors
Links clients with external programs or services, such as health services, recreational activities, childcare
services, financial resources, employment resources, AA/NA groups, transportation resources, and others

Attends court hearings when families are court-involved and presents testimony and treatment
recommendations as requested by attorneys, referral source, the court, or client
Guides, collaborates, and coordinates with follow up services with various community resources to include
mentoring services and case management services, and ensuring the adequate exchange of information is
provided
Meets every week with Clinical Director to provide clinical guidance, assess dynamics and needs of each
case, determine the appropriateness of therapeutic strategies, and assess progress of service delivery and
planning
Works with Clinical Director to increase effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
Prepares written Discharge Summary and Plan
Apprises Clinical Director of workload, case activity, service barriers, and procedural problems in staff and
one-on-one meetings

Required Licenses/Certifications:

• QMHP Certification 
• CPR/First Aid
• TOVA

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, there must be an ability to perform a range of motions, including but not limited to, sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, climbing/descending stairs and driving for periods exceeding one hour.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The employee will be required to complete a tuberculosis screening upon hire.