IRTS/RCS Mental Health Practitioner

Residential Services, Inc. (RSI) has a full-time Mental Health Practitioner opening with our Lotus Grace program in Cambridge, MN. This position will work within a 24/7 Residential Crisis Stabilization (RCS) and Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS) team to develop and implement treatment plans and services that enable the service recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, personal and emotional adjustment and independent living and community skills. If you are compassionate, warm-hearted, and reliable with a passion for advocating for others, apply to join our team!

This position is for 40 hours per week with every other weekend required. Hours will include 7am-3pm and 3pm-11pm shifts. Staff will also attend mandatory weekly team meetings. Schedule changes may be made upon short notice to meet program requirements.

Salary: $24.00-$25.00 per hour

About RSI Lotus Grace

Located on a serene 20-acre hobby farm in Cambridge, MN, RSI’s Lotus Grace IRTS & RCS setting is designed to support up to five people. The mission at Lotus Grace is to assist in addressing mental health in our community by providing services aimed to meet the immediate support needs of people experiencing mental health crises in a licensed residential setting. Our unique nature-based setting, complete with a variety of farm animals, creates a peaceful environment for healing, growth, and recovery.

What We Offer

• Health and dental insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching
• Paid Time Off (PTO) for full-time and part-time staff
• Paid training
• $500 refer a friend bonus
• Employee Assistance Program
• Long term/Short term disability and life insurance (Full-time)
  
  

Other benefits RSI employees enjoy include flexible scheduling, employee recognition and rewards, and every other weekend off. Eligible employees may also qualify for tuition assistance and student loan forgiveness through state and federal assistance programs.

What You’ll Do As a Mental Health Practitioner

As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will work with the treatment team in developing, implementing, and evaluating treatment programs for adults experiencing psychiatric instability. You will provide support and services that are rehabilitative and help the recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living skills. Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop treatment plans, functional assessments, individual abuse prevention plans, level of care assessments and discharge summaries and plans, ensuring that they are implemented, reviewed, revised as necessary and reported on as required by licenser/certification standard.
• Encourage consumer empowerment by promoting individual participation in support service development and provide service recipients with mental illness symptom management and relapse prevention skills to enable them to manage their mental illness.
• Safely monitor and guide the activities of each person, taking into account the person’s level of behavioral and psychiatric stability, cultural needs, and vulnerabilities.
• Provide supervision, assistance, and training to meet the physical and personal needs of people receiving services (e.g., health, grooming, bathing, toileting, eating, socialization).
• Provide appropriate supervision and crisis prevention intervention and resolution techniques, following agency policies and procedures, risk management plans and individual support plans.
• Provide accurate medication administration and documentation in accordance with RSI’s policies.
• Assist people receiving services with household responsibilities (e.g. shopping, meal preparation, laundry, cleaning, budgeting, banking) and transportation allowing them to achieve maximum independence based upon individual skills and abilities.
• Respond to the needs, desires and interests of people receiving services through proper review, implementation, and assessment of services, in accordance with the individual treatment support plans.
• Complete thorough and accurate documentation ensuring all documentation is completed within the required time frames.
• Attend trainings and meetings as required by RSI policy and licensing requirements, including weekly team meetings.
  
  

For This Position, You Will Need

• To pass a post-offer background and MVR check
• A valid driver’s license with no restriction
  
  

You will also need to meet one of the following qualification requirements:

• Have at least 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours in behavioral sciences or related field and 2000 hours of experience with individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury, or developmental disabilities; or
• Have at least 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours in behavioral sciences or related field and have completed a practicum or internship that focused on behavioral sciences or related field that required direct interaction with individuals served; or
• Have 4000 hours of experience in the delivery of services to individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury or developmental disabilities; or
• Have 2000 hours of experience providing services to individuals with mental illness, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury, or developmental disabilities and receive treatment supervision at least once per week until obtaining 4000 hours of experience; or
• Have a master's or other graduate degree in a behavioral sciences or related field.
  
  

How To Apply

You can apply online by visiting our employment website at www.rsi.jobs. You may also fill out a paper application at any of our office locations. Interviews are conducted over the phone, video chat, or in person.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, or participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department at (218) 740-7603 or info@residentialservices.org.

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Salary: $24.00-$25.00 per hour

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RSI is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, age, marital status, familial status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or status with regard to public assistance.

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Department: Program Services

This is a non-management position

This is a full time position