Mental Health Professional- Adolescent RTF

CSG•Manheim, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Mental Health Professional (MHP) is a member of the multidisciplinary team responsible for providing mental health treatment services. The MHP assists individuals and their families in achieving an optimal level of functioning through therapeutic services, including individual and group programming in home or community settings. The role involves providing responsible care to individuals in the program, managing the routine operation of the location while on duty, and contributing to the clinical aspects of the individual’s recovery process. This position is part of the Youth Mental Health Services Adolescent Residential Treatment Facility (RTF).

Requirements

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university; OR, at minimum, a graduate mental health degree and at least one year of experience in the behavioral health delivery system.

Nice To Haves

Licensure is preferred (LCSW, LSW, LPC)

Responsibilities

Ensures the individual’s health, safety, and welfare by monitoring their physical health and psychiatric health needs.
Enhances the quality of the individuals’ lives and their integration into the community by supporting established goals, and community integration.
Develops and implements program plans designed to enhance the individual’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and independent living skills.
Ability to conceptualize, plan and facilitate individual and group sessions and in some cases family therapies.
Performs clinical assessments and develops/implements treatment plans.
Completes all daily, weekly, and monthly records i.e., treatment plans, reports, logs, and other documentations.
Communicates and collaborates with team members, individual’s families, involved agencies, and the community in providing required relevant information.
Provides crisis management, intervention which may include verbal/physical altercations and/or suicidal/self-injurious thoughts or actions, and is on-call as assigned.
Willing to learn and model the five principles of trauma informed care; safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, and empowerment.
Commitment to promote cultural, racial, language and gender access, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Provides case administration to an assigned caseload.
Serves as team leader when needed.
Assists the family in the development and utilization of community and natural resources.
Responsible for transitioning and supporting the adolescent and family during the discharge and follow-up periods.