Qualified Mental Health Professional - A
Location: Blackstone, Virginia
Description: Gentlemen of Tomorrow, LLC is looking of Qualified Mental Health Professional - A right now, this career will be arranged in Virginia. More complete informations about this career opportunity kindly read the description below.
Job Description
Job Objective for MHSS:
Provide the necessary mental health supports for adults and qualifying adolescence to gain independent living skills.
Primary Responsi bilities:
Clinical Services are provided via face-to-face involvement with the client and other family members in the clients home and in various community settings for MHS Services. The QMHP-A is required to assist in the development and implementation of the person-center, recovery-based treatment plan.
The activities associated with the primary responsibility of the Qualified Mental Health Professional are:
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Continuous assessment of treatment needs.
- Assist in the development and ongoing monitoring and implementation of Individual Service Plan.
- Work with clients to foster the development of new improved coping, problem solving, and communication skills.
- Maintain continuous contact with the identified consumer and other key stakeholders (with signed authorization to release information) in planning and service delivery. These stakeholders might include but are not limite d to social workers, psychiatrists, juvenile court officials and police, teachers and other human service professionals.
- Educate family members regarding existing community services, and act as an advocate in connecting family members to these services.
- Maintain up-to-date client records, and prepare required/necessary reports in a timely and accurate manner.
- Attend court when necessary.
- Establish a good working relationship with other public and private agencies/services and interface collaboratively with them.
The QMHP-A is required to provide service coordination activities for the ISP development and implementation as such they must have the following knowledge skills and abilities:
- Ability to provide and/or deliver various skill building activities.
- Ability and skills for enhancing caregiver roles.
- Ability to assist consumers in developing daily and community living skills.
- Ability to assist consumers in development of leisure time interests/ activities.
- Knowledge skills and ability for symptom monitoring and management.
- Ability to assist consumers in developing behavior and anger management skills.
- Ability and skills to maintain required confidentiality regarding client case materials in compliance with the Commonwealth of Virginia Human Rights and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- Knowledge skills and abilities to provide closure and aftercare planning for each family/client.
- Ability and skills to work with adults who have serious emotional disturbances and who may be hostile, oppositional and volatile, while at all times maintain composures and behave in a dignified manner.
- Knowledge and a firm understanding of family developmental issues. Skills and abilities necessary to develop/write the required direct or collateral/stakeholder contacts in progress note format.
- Knowledge of effective parenting skills
The applicant must meet one of the following criteria’s in Academic/Work Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Special Education, Human Services, Counseling or a related field and with at least one year of clinical experience providing direct services to adults with a diagnosis of mental illness.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an unrelated field that includes at least 15 semester credits (or equivalent) in a human services field and who has at least three years of clinical experience providing direct services to adults with a diagnosis of mental illness.
Additional Requirements:
- Must be certified as being tuberculosis free
- Must clear criminal background and CPS registry checks
- Must have a valid driver's license and provide proof of auto insuranc e.
Preferred Training:
- Trained certified in: Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), First Aid, TOVA.
Required education:
- Bachelor’s Degree
Required experience:
- 1-year Clinical experience providing direct services (with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Human Services Field)
- 3-year Clinical experience providing direct services (with a Bachelor’s degree in an unrelated field which includes 15 semester credits in a human services field.)
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: $20.00 to $23.00 /hour
Education:
- Bachelor's
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This career starts available on: Fri, 18 May 2018 00:44:01 GMT