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. Services include helping individuals access medical, social, educational, and other needed resources; providing rehabilitative and skills training, case management, care coordination, treatment planning, and crisis services; and documenting client progress. The role also provides supported employment and telemedicine services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in a qualified human services field, including 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 listed qualified human services fields.
• 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 services and skills training.
• Provide case management and care coordination.
• Develop treatment plans.
• Provide crisis services.
• Document client progress.
• Provide supported employment services.
• Provide 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-matched 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.
• More than two weeks of paid sick leave per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time