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BrightSpring Health Services

MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER - IRTS - 2500 SIGN-ON

BrightSpring Health Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55400

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Our Company SpringPath Mental Health Services

Overview The Mental Health Practitioner/Case Manager works as part of an Assertive Community Team that provides care and treatment for clients that are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring chemical dependency and or personality disorder. The Practitioner is viewed as a primary agent of hope and change and is required to work in full partnership with the client in his/her recovery process. The practitioner has a two focused level of responsibility: first, for the care, welfare, treatment, and safety of the clients as individuals and secondly, for the facilitation of a work and a treatment culture that promotes trans-disciplinary team work, professionalism, cultural competency, and adherence to best practice principles and interventions. The Practitioner has responsibility for client specific and program outcomes. Primary duties include assessment, crisis assessment and management, planning, individual counseling, skills teaching, group work, case management, household management, financial eligibility assistance, and on-call.

Responsibilities

Conducts self in a professional and ethical manner in all work-related functions

Demonstrates productive individual and teamwork behaviors

Conducts over-all rehabilitation goal planning, which may include living, learning, working, social, and spiritual environments

Conducts assessments: mental health status review, suicidal, vulnerable adult & immediate needs, functional, living skill, resource, chemical dependency, and vocational/employment

Interprets and summarizes findings with recommended treatment/rehabilitative activities and goals

Develops the individual treatment/rehabilitative plan

Monitors the individual treatment/rehabilitative process

Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies

Prevents crisis at the lowest level of escalation

Manages and over-sees client financial needs, living arrangement services, and monitors medication

Facilitates transition and recovery support services

Adheres to Data Privacy Practices/HIPPA

Communicates, receives, and writes information clearly and accurately

Reads and interprets clinical assessments and findings

Writes crisis/treatment/behavioral plans with differential goals and objectives

Writes progress notes, summaries, and discharges

Monitors and records medication administration activities

Provides objective verbal and written critical incident analysis

Documents essential activities related to licensure, welfare and safety

Maintains service standards

Achieves client specific and program outcomes

Participates in the 360 degree performance evaluation process

Increases knowledge and skills based on client and program needs

Teaches others

Seeks supervisory oversight

Seeks professional growth

Rotates on-call for emergency consultation and must be able to return to work on short notice as needed

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in one of the behavioral sciences from an accredited college or university

4,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness; or holds a graduate degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields and has at least 2,000 post BA hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness

License which may be required based on education and standards determined by educational/degree guidelines

All Practitioners are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner

The agency encourages staff to seek license at the highest standard permitted by his/her education and experience

Ability to conduct functional assessments, develop treatment plans, provide crisis and behavioral management, provide goal directed individual counseling, facilitate groups, teach skills, provide case management, problem-solve, and communicate effectively, orally, and in writing

Demonstration through training and testing within a designated time frame of the following core competency areas: First Aide/CPR, Data Privacy (HIPPA), Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, Medication Monitoring/Administration, Principles and Techniques of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (including Over-All Rehabilitation Goal Setting, Functional Assessment, Skills Teaching and Programming), Empathy/Motivational Training, Working with Persons Experiencing Mania, Hallucinations, and Delusions, and Relapse Prevention Planning

About our Line of Business SpringPath Mental Health Services, an affiliate of BrightSpring Health Services, assists individuals with emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric disorders which result in functional impairments in traditional day-to-day life activities. Our services focus on developing social skills, developing coping skills, being an active participant in the local community, offering community choice, and psychoeducation. We help individuals develop skills and access resources needed to live more positive, active and social lives. For more information, please visit www.springpathmentalhealth.com. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Salary Range USD $53,000.00 - $55,000.00 / Year

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