Qualified Mental Health Professionals Licensed or Licensed Eligible
Location: Henrico, Virginia
Description: Empowering Youth for Positive Change is at present recruited Qualified Mental Health Professionals Licensed or Licensed Eligible right now, this position will be placed in Virginia. More complete informations about this position opportunity please give attention to these descriptions.
Job Title: QMHP -C, QMHP -A License Eligible
Immediate Supervisor: Program Director and Clinical Supervisor
Qualified Mental Health Professional - Child -Adult
- QMHP - supervised by the Program Director and Clinical Supervisors, this contractor works in conjunction with other personnel in order to provide in-home services. This person will provide psycho-educational support, mentoring services, crisis de-escalation, family relationship building, parenting skills training, social skills training, anger management skills, self-sufficiency and self-management skills, academic and vocational guidance, community awareness, and responsibility and goal setting. Case management and life skills training will also be provided to enhance independent living skills.
- This position works in the home and a flexible schedule is required, including on-call crisis intervention.
Interpersonal Contacts:
Continuous contact with individuals and other staff in planning and providing individual services. Regular contact with family members and memb ers of other service agencies providing additional services to individuals such as social workers, psychiatrist, juvenile court officials and police, teachers and other human services professionals.
Difficulty:
Appropriately relating to a variety of individual and family personality types requires the use of judgment and discretion. Training and support can be demanding and difficult. The counselor typically provides services to highly dysfunctional families and individuals.
Communications:
The incumbent will communicate effectively, in writing and orally, to caseworkers, individuals and family members, and staff of other service agencies. Incumbent must also maintain individual progress notes, monthly summaries, discharge summaries, and additional documentation as needed.
Working Conditions:
Work frequently involves traveling and visitation to individual homes of varying sanitary and health (emotional and physical) conditions. Incumbent may be exposed to hostile and/or aggressive individual behavior, presenting a personal risk of bodily harm.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
- Good knowledge of non-violent crisis intervention.
- Good knowledge of family life.
- Demonstrated skill in working with individuals and behavioral issues.
- Very good oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with individuals and staff.
Formal Training and Work Experience:
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in human services, a related field, or a degree deemed equivalent to those described, from an accredited college. A human services field includes social work, gerontology, psychology, psychiatric rehabilitation, special education, sociology, counseling, and human services counseling. Considerable experience working with emotionally troubled individuals and affected families , or equivalent experience as specified by VDBHDS/DMAS regulations. Must be able to show a minimum of one (1) year direct service to individuals and families. QPPMH meeting VDBHDS/DMAS regulations are also considered.
Licensure:
- Valid state driver’s license
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training certification (within 30 days of employment)
- Standard First Aid Training certification (within 30 days of employment)
- Training in non-violent crisis intervention (minimum 8 hours) Crisis Wave
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides MHS or IIH for families under the supervision of the Program Director (administrative) and Clinical Supervisor (Clinical).
- Provides psycho-educational, mentoring, and crisis de-escalation services.
- Provides training in parenting skills, social skills, and anger management.
- Provides training in self-sufficiency and self-management skills.
- Pr ovides academic and vocational guidance and education on community awareness and responsibility, and goal setting.
- Assists family and individual in implementing Individual Services Plans.
- Assists in providing non-violent crisis in intervention for individuals and families.
- Transports individuals to appointments, hearings, school and recreational activities.
- May provide individual and family therapy, training, and support (LMHP and license eligible MHP only).
- May provide supervision to QMHP staff.
- May provide supervision to an Intern
- Monitors and records individual behavior and documents individual progress per existing standards and policies and to assure protection of individual confidentiality.
Participates in face-to-face Clinical Supervision with the LMHP
As of January 3, 2018, All QMHP's are required to Register with the Board of Counseling. All QMHP's must be registered by December 31, 2018
Job Type: Part-time
Job Type: Part-time
Experience:
- Human services: 1 year (Required)
Education:
- Bachelor's (Required)
License or certification:
- Drivers license (Required)
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This position starts available on: Thu, 03 May 2018 15:35:12 GMT