Mental Health Therapist II (Team- 227)

WellPower • Denver, CO

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support. The Mental Health Therapist provides comprehensive psychological and behavioral case management services within a continuum of high to low intensity services designed to improve or maintain each mental health consumer’s abilities to function in the community. This role is responsible for assessing, monitoring, and following up with consumers' ability to meet basic needs in moving toward recovery, as well as all clinical documentation of consumer interaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor (MHTI) or Master (MHTII) Degree in psychology, social work, or other related human services degree.
• One (1) year of experience in mental health or human services preferred.
• Must have a valid Colorado Driver’s license and a recent clean driving record.
• Ability to transport the people we serve in your vehicle.
• Ability to obtain and carry Business Use coverage on your auto policy (additional cost is reimbursed).
• Master's Degree in social work, psychology, or similar field.
• Minimum of three years experience in clinical social work.
• Experience working with moderate to severe and persistently mentally ill populations.

Nice To Haves

• Current license as a LCSW/LPC/LMFT in the State of Colorado preferred.

Responsibilities

• Help consumers in meeting basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, personal safety, and general medical and dental care, and assist them with applications for income, medical, housing, or other benefits which they may need and to which they are entitled.
• Identify consumers for whom establishment of a protective payee-ship is necessary and arrange this assistance.
• Ensure consumers access to needed services and community resources by arranging for transportation, or if necessary, by taking the consumers to the service in personal vehicle (business insurance on vehicle reimbursed by WellPower).
• Provide comprehensive psychosocial services that include a continuum of high and low intensity services designed to improve or maintain consumers’ abilities to function in normal social roles.
• Help consumers evaluate both their strengths and symptoms, and facilitate in consumers setting their own goals, and plan for appropriate services.
• Guide and instruct consumers in daily living skills such as medication use, diet, exercise, personal hygiene, shopping, cooking, budgeting, housekeeping, use of transportation, and other community services.
• Help consumers develop social skills, interests, and leisure time activities to provide a sense of participation and personal worth, including opportunities for age-appropriate, culturally appropriate daytime and evening activities.
• Help consumers find and make use of appropriate employment opportunities, vocational rehabilitation services, or supported work environments where appropriate.
• Assist consumers who need special living arrangements in locating a rehabilitative or supportive housing arrangement.
• Offer support, assistance, consultation, and education to families, friends, landlords, employers, community agencies, and others who come into contact with consumers, in order to maximize benefits and minimize problems associated with the presence of these persons in the community.
• Identify and work with potential natural support systems such as neighborhood networks, churches, and community organizations.
• Make full utilization of the consumer’s support systems in order to encourage treatment program engagement.
• Reach out to program eligible consumers, inform them of and educate them about available services at WellPower and in the community.
• Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.
• Provide psychological evaluations/problem identification, crisis interventions, and individual, group, and/or family therapy to assigned clients.
• Provide case management services to clients as needed or assigned.
• Develop treatment plans; monitor treatment progress and follow-up at disposition times.
• Assist clients with psychological development, social development, and rehabilitation.
• Coordinate client's use of other WellPower programs and outside community resources.
• Coordinate medication/medicinal needs of clients with psychiatrists, nurses, and other medical sources.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records consistent with WellPower standards.
• Participate in team/department meetings, in-services, and supervisory sessions as required.
• Perform 27-10 (M-1) “mental health hold” evaluations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Assist with program supervision of students/volunteers as determined appropriate.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement match
• Free licensure supervision for LCSWs/LPCs/LMFTs
• Paid time off
• Paid volunteer time
• Paid holidays (including Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
• Gainsharing bonus
• Employee Resource Groups
• Sports leagues

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level