Licensed Mental Health Practitioner

Position Description

Position Title:  Licensed Mental Health Practitioner

Department:  Student Services

FLSA Status:  Exempt 

Contract Days: 185

Supervisor:  Director of Student Services

Provides consultation, crisis intervention, advocacy with community agencies, school personnel, and others as needed.  Communicates on a regular basis with the student's team and provides necessary documentation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be
assigned.

• Provides therapy to meet student needs in individual and group settings.
• Educates, shares and presents knowledge/skills on mental illness.
• Communicates with students, families, administrators, teachers and community agencies.
• Provides documentation of phone logs, communication with students, families, administrators, teachers, and community agencies, therapy sessions and other individual crisis management plans.
• Provides consultation/coaching for students and home attendance school staff.
• Provides, teaches and reteaches life skills, social skills, crisis intervention strategies and problem solving skills.
• Contributes to the process that includes mediation/problem solving.
• Facilitates, develops and maintains behavior intervention plans, functional behavior assessments and safety plans.
• Collaborates with outside agencies to provide documentation and receives supports for students and families.
• Participates in meetings, as requested.
• Participates to define a student's present levels of performance, provides documentation as needed.
• Maintains a safe educational environment for students, staff and community members.
• Regular and reliable attendance on-site is an essential function of this position.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential
duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge,
skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience 

• Master's Degree in counseling, psychology, social work or a related field required
• Proven experience providing mental health services to children and adolescents, preferably within a school or educational setting
• In-depth knowledge of child and adolescent development as well as common mental health issues faced by students in K-12 settings.
• Strong understanding of evidence-based therapeutic interventions and approaches suitable for school-based mental health services
• Experience in developing and implementing interventions to address mental health challenges and enhance academic success
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with students, parents, teachers, and school administrators
• Empathy, patience, and the ability to establish rapport with students from diverse backgrounds
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities within the school-based setting
• Proficiency in using electronic record keeping systems and other relevant software

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Valid license as a mental health practitioner (e.g., Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, School Psychologist, Licensed Mental Health Practitioner).
• Licensure from Health Department
• Valid driver's license

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here 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, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand and sit.  The employee is occasionally required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually mild to moderate.

Benefits

• Health & Dental Insurance - 85% of premium paid by ESU 6
• Vision Insurance (VSP)
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• Nebraska Public Employees Retirement System (NPERS)
• Wellness Program
• 403b
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account