Mental Health Caseworker/QMHP

Lakes Regional Community Center • Paris, TX

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About The Position

The Mental Health Case Worker provides person-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented services to adults, children, and adolescents experiencing severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), co-occurring disorders, or other behavioral health challenges. The role helps individuals access medical, social, educational, and other needed resources through rehabilitative and skills training, case management, care coordination, treatment planning, and crisis services. It also includes documenting client progress and providing supported employment and telemedicine services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with a major in a qualified human services field such as psychology, social work, counseling, sociology, human development, gerontology, educational psychology, special education, nursing, or medicine.
• Valid Texas driver's license and acceptable driving record.
• Personal liability insurance as required by the State of Texas.
• Working computer skills, including Microsoft Office.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university, with a major in one of the qualified human services fields listed.
• Two years of related work experience in a mental health setting.
• Knowledge of psychotropic medications and DSM V.
• Bilingual skills in English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Help individuals access medical, social, educational, and other needed resources.
• Provide rehabilitative and skills training.
• Provide case management and care coordination.
• Participate in treatment planning.
• Provide crisis services.
• Document client progress.
• Provide supported employment and telemedicine services.

Benefits

• Loan forgiveness
• Employer-cost sharing of health insurance
• Employer-paid short-term disability insurance
• Pet insurance
• Employer-paid term life insurance
• Employer-match retirement contributions up to 5% of base salary
• Optional dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance
• Wellness program
• 13 paid holidays per year
• Two weeks of paid vacation leave per year, with a graduating accrual rate
• Two or more weeks of paid sick leave per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time