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Mental Health Practitioner - ARMHS
Description
The ARMHS staff will provide adult rehabilitative mental health services that instruct, assist, and support the recipient in basic living and social skills. These activities are to help restore a recipient’s skills for managing his or her illness and everyday independent living. The service areas would include: interpersonal communication skills, community resource utilization and integration skills, crisis assistance, relapse prevention skills, health care directives, budgeting and shopping skills, healthy lifestyle skills and practices, cooking and nutrition skills, transportation skills, medication education and monitoring, mental illness symptom management skills, household management skills, employment-related skills, and transition to community living services. .
Responsibilities
- Provide skills training, assessment and monitoring in the areas identified in the client’s Diagnostic Assessment and Functional Assessment.
- Creating and Reviewing of Treatment Plans and Functional Assessments
- Provide services in a one to one and group format, in the recipient’s home and in the office
- Participate in regular staff/team meetings
- Maintain records of contact with other providers regarding client care.
- Assist clients to create a treatment plan
- Coordinate and cooperate with other agency and community providers to provide the best possible care for the client
- Monitor client's progress and with the clinical team, modifies the treatment plan as appropriate.
- Meet regularly with Clinical Supervisor/Mental Health Professional/Treatment Director for individual and group reviews of client needs and receive direction for treatment
- Complete all paperwork, reports, and charting contemporaneously and in an organized manner
- Participate actively in on-going professional growth and development; maintain appropriate professional behavior and participate in appropriate supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science or related field
- 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of clinical services in the treatment of adults with mental illness
- Able to work with immigrant populations and interpreters
- Ability to work cooperatively as a team member
- Must be able to work flexible work schedule including evenings
- Superb organizational skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients and their families
Job Types: Part-time, Contract
Pay: $22.00 - $27.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Professional development assistance
Medical Specialty:
- Home Health
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $22 - $27