What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mental Health Practitioner, Full Time Brentwood Home, Marshall, MN position at Prairie Community Services, Inc.?
About the job: As a Mental Health Practitioner, you are responsible to provide respectful support and assistance to persons served in their homes and communities; to help maximize the self-help skills of persons served in the areas of daily living, coping, boundaries, education, employment, housing, benefits, medication monitoring, and mental and physical health.
Essential job responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Be available for persons served to provide positive social interaction.
- Establish and maintain appropriate boundaries with persons served.
- Provide encouragement and support for persons served and their families.
- Prepare and facilitate groups and group discussion.
- Monitor, report and document any and all unusual behavior and overall medical condition of persons served.
- Communicate concerns, suggestions and information to supervisors in a complete, accurate, prompt, respectful and timely manner.
- Complete, date, sign and submit all documentation in a timely fashion.
- Report neglect and/or abuse of persons served.
- Conduct appropriate activities in recipient’s home and community in conjunction with individual plans.
Qualifications:
- Must be 21 years of age or as dictated by certification requirements.
- Holds a bachelor’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university, and
- has at least 2,000 of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or
- is fluent in the non-English language of the ethnic group to which at least 50 percent of the practitioner’s clients belong, completes 40 hours of training in the delivery of services to persons mental illness and receives clinical supervision from a mental health professional at least once a week until the requirement of 2,000 hours of supervised experience is met;
- Completed 6,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness;
- Enrolled as a graduate student in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields and is formally assigned by an accredited college or university to an agency for facility for clinical raining; or
- Holds a master’s or other graduate degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university and has less than 4,000 hours post master’s experience in the treatment of mental illness.
Benefit Highlights:
- Employer contribution towards group medical plan single premium
- 401(a) Retirement Savings Plan with a 5% employer annual contribution. No match required.
- Accrue up to 4 weeks of PLT/ESST in the first year.
- Holiday Pay
- Employer-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary plan options available including Accident, Critical Illness, Dental, additional Life/AD&D, Vision and Short and Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Training
- Flexible Work Schedule
Why choose us:
At Prairie Community Services, we respect life, self, colleagues and others. We work with persons served living in our residential sites and Community Based Services Programs to help identify their challenges and disabilities and to assist, encourage, teach, and utilize their capabilities and skills to the limits of their potential hopes and dreams.
As part of a mission-focused nonprofit that values integrity, commitment, respect, excellence, service and stewardship, we will train you for success!
Prairie Community Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
