Mental Health Practitioner

Family Service Rochester is seeking a Full-Time Mental Health Practitioner. This position provides skills-based training to youth, families, and/groups within Children’s Therapeutic Support Services (CTSS) program. CTSS services are designed to rehabilitate skills disrupted by a child’s mental illness and are provided within homes and/or the community.
In this role you will:

• Provide individual skills training to youth as directed/documented in youth’s treatment plan.
• Provide family skills training to the youth's family that supports skills needed to enhance the youth's skill development and to help the youth's ongoing use of the skills, as directed/documented in youth’s treatment plan.
• Facilitate/co-facilitate group skills training to multiple recipients who, because of the nature of their emotional, behavioral, or social dysfunction, can derive mutual benefit from interaction in a group setting, as directed/documented in youth’s treatment plan.
• Facilitate/co-facilitate multi-family group directed toward meeting the identified treatment needs of each recipient as indicated in the youth’s treatment plan.
• Collaborate with referral sources and other service providers involved with the family system when appropriate.

Successful candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree in social work or a related human services field. Have a minimum of 2 years of experience providing services to children with a mental illness, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury or developmental disability. Must qualify as a Mental Health Practitioner in the State of MN. Experience working with severe emotional disturbances in children is preferred. Valid driver's license and proof of auto insurance.

For your expertise, FSR will provide a collaborative and safe work environment where all identities are welcomed and valued. You can expect agency-lead continuous improvement in understanding our own privileges and how that may impact our work with others.

FSR offers a competitive compensation program and full benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life and disability insurance, 100% match on retirement plan contributions as well as continuing education and professional development opportunities, we are a Public Service Loan Forgiveness. We provide EAP resources, including 8 free mental health therapy sessions to each employee and their family members, we offer flexible scheduling to meet individual employee and family needs, 4 ½ weeks of PTO to start and 11 ½ paid holidays per year. We offer a culture of learning, listening and growth where employees regularly meet with senior leadership to provide ideas and feedback.

At Family Service Rochester (FSR) we believe that our employees are our greatest asset. We are guided by our values in where we believe that everyone needs to be understood, and that partnership is a process. We believe that everyone desires respect and that partners share power. We believe that everyone has strengths and that judgements can wait. We are a dynamic and compassionate organization committed to making a positive impact on the lives of individuals and families in our community. If you share our values and desire to listen to what people need and together build better lives, we have an opportunity for you.

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