Health Officer (Part-time)

Appleseed Community Mental Health Center•Ashland, OH

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About The Position

Appleseed Community Mental Health Center is seeking to fill a part-time position for a mental health crisis prescreener. This position requires evening and weekend hours with a flexible schedule depending on the needs of the persons served. This position involves assessing people in a secure setting who are in the midst of a psychiatric crisis to determine their level of safety and secure proper level of care, providing community psychiatric supportive treatment, and diagnostic assessment. Knowledge of crisis interventions and psychiatric hospitalization requirements is preferred.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree required.
Licenses or other required certifications: Minimum Licensed Social Worker ( LSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW), or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC ) required.
Experience: Strong clinical skills with experience in a correctional or community mental health counseling.
Specialized knowledge, skills, or abilities: Demonstrated knowledge about mental illness, motivational interviewing, family systems treatment, trauma informed care, and crisis interventions, and knowledge and skill in the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V/ICD-10.
Must have strong commitment to client rights.
Must have a car available during working hours, carry and maintain automobile insurance that includes a payable liability of $100,000/$300,000, as well as the ability to legally drive a car.
Must pass background and driving record checks and drug test.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of crisis interventions and psychiatric hospitalization requirements is preferred.

Responsibilities

Assessing people in a secure setting who are in the midst of a psychiatric crisis to determine their level of safety and secure proper level of care
Providing community psychiatric supportive treatment
Diagnostic assessment

Benefits

Staff work to make the agency a positive, progressive, and supportive environment.
Personally and professionally, we put our best foot forward for our clients and for each other
Our staff are amazing.
Flexibility with our schedules.
Family environment.
Knowing we are doing something that makes a difference.
The people and atmosphere
Making a difference in other people’s lives and great coworkers!
The ability to do what excites you as long as it helps other with mental health progress.
The team approach to client care.
Paid County Mental Health Officer Training
Earn $100 per on-call shift
Earn an additional $110 or more per active pre-screen
No minimum commitment required
Flexible Schedule