Responsibilities:Provide strength based, solution focused supportive therapeutic services in the community.Be knowledgeable of your clients including their strengths, diagnosis, treatment goals and treatment plan.Ensure each recipient has an Individualized Crisis Recovery Plan on file within 30 days to reduce risk of harm to self or others, identify precursors, reduce hospitalization, and restore stability.Participate in collaborative meetins with MS Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed.Provide Crisis intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and sevice definitions.Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient.Communicate client's status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all "no shows" and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff.Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manger and/or Case Manager.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:A Master of Social Work degree; ORA Master of Arts, Science or Education degree in a mental health related field(an academic program with a curriculum content in which at least seventy percent of the required courses for the major field of study are based upon the core mental health disciplines); AND
DMH credentialed as a Mental Health TherapistA minimum of fifteen hours of graduate level course work and/or practicum experience in applied intervention strategies/methods designed to address behavioral, emotional and mental disorders, as a part of or in addition to the masters degree.