Outpatient Mental Health Clinical Trainee

Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center•Red Wing, MN

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About The Position

The Outpatient Mental Health Clinical Trainee provides outpatient mental health services to residents of Winona, Houston, Fillmore, Wabasha, and Goodhue counties and other participating county partners. The role is based in a nonprofit community mental health clinic and works with individuals, couples, families, and the wider community alongside licensed professionals and Center staff. The trainee assesses clients’ circumstances, symptoms, strengths, and needs; develops treatment plans; provides structured individual, family, or group psychotherapy; and coordinates care with Center staff, psychiatric prescribers, outside professionals, and agencies. The position also participates in clinical supervision, multidisciplinary meetings, community resource coordination, and staff development and training activities. The role requires timely, accurate documentation and scheduling in the agency’s electronic clinical record, adherence to productivity standards, completion of business-office forms, and maintenance of effective working relationships with referral sources and colleagues. The employee must have a vehicle, valid driver’s license, and auto insurance, and be willing to travel as needed to client or organizational locations throughout southeastern Minnesota.

Requirements

Applicable Minnesota Mental Health Professional license eligibility as a Clinical Trainee.
Minimum graduate degree in a mental health field of study.
Completed educational requirements for clinical trainee designation.
High level of human relations skills and effective decision-making ability.
Organizational skills and effective verbal and written communication.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills.
Ability to work well with a team of therapists and coordinate care in support of treatment.
Ability to work well with other agency staff and respond to reasonable requests outside clinical work.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Vehicle, valid driver’s license, valid auto insurance, and willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

Assess and document clients’ current life situations, referral reasons, mental health histories, developmental history, strengths, vulnerabilities, functioning, symptoms, and diagnoses using the DSM-5 or updated tools.
Provide needed outpatient mental health services.
Develop written intervention, treatment, and service plans with goals, objectives, strategies, schedules, and assigned providers.
Provide planned, structured individual, family, and/or group psychotherapy based on client diagnoses.
Coordinate therapeutic services with Center staff, including consulting with on-staff psychiatric prescribers.
Consult promptly with professionals and agencies regarding clients referred to or from the Center and mutual clients.
Participate in required multidisciplinary team meetings and clinical supervision.
Provide case or program consultation to health care and human service professionals and agencies.
Help coordinate agency and community resources.
Participate in conferences, seminars, and other educational activities required by the annual staff development plan or state licensure requirements.
Provide training to in-house staff and share approved, legally authorized session recordings for intra-agency training or at the Clinical Director’s request.
Perform other outpatient mental health activities, including presentations, staffing information booths, and participating in external activities as directed.
Maintain accurate, current documentation of client treatment activities in the agency’s electronic clinical record.
Complete progress notes within 48 hours of client sessions, treatment plans at the first therapy session, and diagnostic assessments within insurance compliance timelines or sooner when required.
Maintain accurate case closings and terminations, typically within three months of the most recent client session.
Maintain a thorough and accurate electronic health record schedule that includes productive and non-productive time and activities.
Meet the required minimum productivity standard, currently 65% of total paid time across billable and non-billable work.
Complete business-office forms and requests in a timely manner, including enrollment forms, prior authorizations, and requests for information or letters to doctors.
Develop and maintain good working relationships with referral sources and agency staff.
Travel as needed to client or organization locations throughout southeastern Minnesota.
Perform other duties assigned by the Program Director.