Therapist - IDD
Region 8 MH-MR•Mendenhall, MS
•Onsite
About The Position
The Mental Health Therapist provides direct services to consumers in assigned program according to program requirements and participates in center programs as needed. This role involves maintaining documentation, providing direct face-to-face services, offering crisis intervention, completing intake evaluations, developing and implementing treatment plans, and participating in clinical and general staff meetings.
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Mental Health, Psychology, Social Work, or related field.
- Must possess a professional license (LPC, P-LPC, LMFT, LCSW, or LMSW) or be eligible to earn a DMH credential as a Mental Health Therapist, Intellectual and Developmental, Disabilities Therapist, or Addictions Therapist (as appropriate to the service and population being served).
- Must maintain a valid MS driver’s license.
- Must pass a criminal background check
Responsibilities
- Maintains documentation as evidence that all duties are completed in accordance with program requirements contained in the Department of Mental Health Operational Standards.
- Maintains proper training, continuing education, qualifications, and other certifications required for this position as written in the Department of Mental Health Operational Standards.
- Provides a minimum of 5 hours/day of direct face-to-face services to consumers.
- Provides 24-hour telephone “on-call” crisis intervention referral (as scheduled).
- Completes intake evaluation interviews with responsibility for seeing that proper routing of consumers and records are performed.
- Responsible for development and implementation of treatment plans.
- Provides therapy services to consumers in accordance with treatment plans.
- Participates in clinical staff meetings, general staff meetings and in-service training.
- Provides immediate emergency crisis intervention services.
- Maintains a “Consumer-Oriented” focus in the provision services to Region 8 Consumers.
- Assists in providing and implementing consultation and education services as directed by the Center Coordinator and/or Clinical Director.
- Participates in continuing education by attending workshops, seminars and other professional meetings.
- Builds and promotes community relationships with referral sites.
- All other duties as assigned by supervisor
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
