Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Response

Job Description

Northern Pines Mental Health Center is proud to offer competitive wages and an exceptional benefits package!  

We are seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Mobile Crisis Outreach team. Travel throughout the six-county region will be required. The purpose of this role is to triage crisis calls and provide mental health assessments for evaluation of any immediate needs or crisis situations. Dedicated Practitioners will consult with the professional on duty after each assessment. MCO staff will work in teams with rotating shifts. Some holidays may be required. To allow appropriate response to crisis situations, this role may include on-call hours that achieve coverage 24 hours a day/7 days per week/365 days a year.

 Essential Functions include:

• Provide consultation to staff regarding crisis situations
• Provide training to staff regarding assessments in crisis situations
• Conduct crisis assessments, an immediate, face-to-face evaluation to: identify any immediate need for emergency services, determine that the recipient’s behavior is a serious deviation from his/her baseline level of functioning and caused by either a mental health crisis or emergency, provide immediate intervention to relieve the recipient’s distress
• Determine the need for crisis intervention services, or referrals to other resources, based on crisis assessments
• Promptly provide crisis interventions, face-to-face, short-term, intensive mental health services provided during a mental health crisis or emergency in order to help recipients: cope with stressors, identify and use available resources, avoid unnecessary hospitalization and loss of independent living, develop action plans, begin to return to his/her baseline level of functioning
• Develop culturally appropriate crisis intervention treatment plans with clients and update as necessary
• Refer clients to different/ additional mental health services
• Provide crisis stabilization services: mental health services, provided after crisis intervention, to help the recipient return his/her functioning to the level it was before the crisis by: considering the crisis assessment and intervention treatment plan, consider the need for further assessment and referrals, update the crisis stabilization treatment plan, provide supportive counseling, conduct skills training, collaborate with other service providers in the community, provide education regarding mental illness support to the recipient’s people network

 Qualifications include:

• Travel is a requirement of the position; valid driver’s license and ability to operate a motor vehicle are required
• Must meet Mental Health Practitioner status per the State of Minnesota

Compensation & Benefits include:

• A starting wage of $25.00/ hour
• Health, Dental, Disability and Life insurance with other additional voluntary options for spousal life, short term disability, accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness plans
• Health Savings account with employer contribution
• 401K with employer match
• Generous paid time off (1st - 3rd year, full-time employees earn 19 days/152 hours per year. Increases with longevity!) 
• Nine holidays observed per year as follows: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and a Weather Float Day.
• Supportive of time off for a healthy work/life balance 
• Bereavement Pay
• Travel reimbursement
• Paid Supervision if working toward independent licensure

Northern Pines Mental Health Center is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. Please submit a resume and cover letter if interested in applying.

Keywords: Mental Health, Practitioner, Mental Health Practitioner, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Response, Crisis Response, Mobile Crisis Outreach, Non-profit, Community, Social Work, Minnesota

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