What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mental Health Specialist position at Rehab Services of Louisiana?
Behavioral Services of Louisiana is dedicated to providing comprehensive mental health support to individuals in the community. We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Mental Health Specialist to join our team. This role involves delivering strength-based, solution-focused therapeutic services in the community, with a focus on client-centered care. Our organization prides itself on offering consumer-driven and family-oriented services, conducted within the context of the consumers’ natural environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide strength-based, solution-focused supportive therapeutic services in the community.
- Deliver consumer-driven and family-oriented services within the consumers’ natural environment.
- Offer client-centered, individual Psychosocial Skills Rehabilitation (PSR) services in the community.
- Understand clients' strengths, diagnosis, treatment goals, and treatment plans.
- Assess each recipient for strengths, resources, and goals within the first 30 days of treatment; provide ongoing strength-based planning and treatment.
- Assist with 90-day reviews.
- Participate in collaborative meetings with Rehabilitation Services staff, other agencies, or community and natural supports as needed.
- Regularly communicate clients’ status, including changes in mood or functioning, medical issues, and all crisis and health and safety issues.
- Produce effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipients.
- Submit notes on time according to policy and document all “no shows.”
- Use computer interface for documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.
- Attend all office trainings and regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Team Manager.
- Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline.
- Return phone calls promptly and follow all safety rules.
- Obtain 20 training hours as required for a full-time MHP or 16 training hours as required for a part-time MHP yearly.
- Actively participate in all evaluations conducted by Rehabilitation Services.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Rehabilitation Services, Special, Early Childhood, or Secondary Education, Family & Consumer Sciences, Criminal Justice, or Human Growth & Development.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college with a minor in counseling, social work, sociology, or psychology.
