Are you looking for an exciting new venture that can truly make a difference in people's lives?

Nueces Center for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities is your place.

The Nueces Center for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities (MHID) is dedicated to helping the residents of Nueces County who are living with mental illness and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve over 10,000 people each year with psychiatric and behavioral health care outpatient services, counseling, training, employment assistance, housing support, homeless outreach, children's mental health care and more. 

*This position will remain open for seven (7) calendar days, or until filled. Posted 9/4/2024* 

Salary: "Please note that the job posting rate for this position is $13.30 to $14.75, the salary offered will follow the starting salary guidelines which are typically made at or near the minimum of the salary range. However, a salary may be negotiated above the minimum range depending on applicable years of experience and qualifications."

Full-Time, 40 Hour Work Week, Paid Bi-weekly

General DescriptionPerforms receptionistduties that include serving visitors by greeting, welcoming, and directingappropriately; notifies staff of visitor arrival; maintains visitor sign-in-logfor security purposes, performs data entry as assigned; performs feecollections for services provided to consumers and acts as backup telephoneoperator as needed. Collects Initial Contact forms and verifies consumer'sinsurances daily. Works under supervision with minimal latitude for the use ofinitiative and independent judgment. Refers problems to a lead supervisor. Performs related work as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited highschool or GED, plus some experience in clerical duties. Must have reliable transportation.

Preferred: One year of progressively responsible receptionistexperience. One year of face-to-facecustomer service and answering the public's questions and or/directing them tothe right person. One year of computerexperience entering data into a database.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Inthe course of being employed, understands and implements trauma informed carepractices.
• Knowledge of business terminology,office practices and procedures; of spelling, punctuation, grammar, andarithmetic.
• Skill in using Word-Processing and Excelformats.
• Ability to make basic mathematicalcomputations; maintain and prepare fee collections and tabulations.
• Skillsrequired operating office machines.

MHID cares about the health and well-being of our employees, we are dedicated to providing a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. 

We offer a very competitive benefits package

• excellent health, hospitalization, dental and vision insurance plans
• life Insurance, $25,000 provided at no cost to employees
• very generous retirement plan- MHID contributes 6% of employee annual salary on the first day of employment and the employee contributes 1%
• employee referral program
• 16 hours of paid time off (PTO) each month, with increases
• 10 holidays plus 2 personal holidays each year
• career ladder incentives/opportunities
• mileage reimbursement if personal vehicle is used for work

• employee appreciation events and annual employee recognition banquet
• Employee Assistant Program (EAP)

Student Loan Repayment

• MHID is a qualified employer for the PSLF program to repay student loans https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service

Education

• MHID offers flex scheduling for educational assistance to full-time employees 
• Free LPC-A supervision

We are a tobacco free workplace
EOE/AA

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters