ARMHS Practitioner

canvashealth; Stillwater (MN); On-site; USD 54,549 - 63,163; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

canvashealth is hiring an ARMHS Practitioner in Stillwater, MN. This role involves supporting individuals with serious mental illnesses through rehabilitative services. Collaborating with various community resources is essential as practitioners aim to help improve clients' daily living and social skills.

The position offers a salary range from $54,549 to $63,163 annually, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that encourages applicants from all backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Meet DHS qualifications for a Mental Health Practitioner.
• Complete supervised services hours with mental health clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide rehabilitative mental health services to clients.
• Assist individuals in developing basic living and social skills.

Skills

Interpersonal communication skills

Crisis assistance skills

Medication education

Health care directives

Healthy lifestyle practices

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in behavioral sciences

Job description

ARMHS Practitioner

All are welcome! People of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply!

Salary Range

$54,549.47 - $63,162.54 annually. This is a good faith estimate; actual compensation may vary based on factors such as knowledge, training, skills, work location, experience, and/or FTE.

Benefits Eligibility

• Generous paid time off, including holidays and personal days.
• Wide-ranging healthcare coverage with options to fit your needs.
• Flexible accounts for medical savings and expenses.
• Supportive services through the Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, dining, and more.
• Retirement savings plan with employer contributions.
• Recognition opportunities through performance-based awards.

About Us

This mission of Canvas Health is to bring hope, healing, and recovery to people's lives. Canvas Health's mental health and substance use disorder providers, clinicians, and staff bring their diverse lived experience to help inform and guide the care they provide to clients. Our integrated programs and services offer coordinated care to people of all ages in their homes, the community, and in our clinics. We strive for excellence in clinical care as we serve those living with mental illness, substance use disorders, crisis, unstable housing, and trauma. Canvas Health is a non‑profit, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) specializing in serving clients who are on Medicaid.

Position Summary

The ARMHS staff provide adult rehabilitative mental health services that instruct, assist, and support the recipient in basic living and social skills to individuals with serious mental illnesses or serious and persistent mental illnesses. These activities are to help restore a recipient's skills for managing their illness and everyday independent living. Service areas include interpersonal communication skills, community resource utilization and integration skills, crisis assistance, relapse prevention skills, health care directives, budgeting and shopping skills, healthy lifestyle skills and practices, cooking and nutrition skills, transportation skills, medication education and monitoring, mental illness symptom management skills, household management skills, employment‑related skills, and transition to community living services. It is collaborative in nature and requires working closely with Community Services, Court Services, private providers, outside resources, and programs at Canvas Health. Requires ability to drive to individuals' homes or in the community when needed. Primarily serving individuals in Ramsey and Washington counties.

Location

Stillwater, MN

Schedule

40 hours per week between 8am – 5pm, Monday -Friday.

Minimum Qualifications

Meet DHS qualifications for a Mental Health Practitioner in one of the following ways:

• Completed 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours in behavioral sciences or related fields AND completed 2,000 hours of delivering supervised services to clients with mental illness, substance use disorder, emotional disturbance, traumatic brain injury, or developmental disabilities.
• Completed 4,000 hours of delivering supervised services to clients with mental illness, substance use disorder, emotional disturbance, traumatic brain injury or developmental disabilities.
• Completed 2,000 hours of delivering supervised services to clients with mental illness, substance use disorder, emotional disturbance, traumatic brain injury, or developmental disabilities.
• Currently possess a bachelor's or master's degree with any one of the following:
  • Possess a master's degree or graduate degree in behavioral sciences or related fields.
  • Possess a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences or related fields AND completes a practicum or internship that:
    • Requires direct interaction with adults or children served.
• Currently and actively participating in a graduate student internship AND is formally assigned by an accredited college or university to an agency or facility for clinical training.
• Currently possess a bachelor's degree or higher (i.e. masters) in behavioral sciences or related field AND is formally assigned by an accredited college or university to an agency or facility for clinical training.

AND completes training on mental illness, recovery from mental illness, mental health de‑escalation techniques, co‑occurring mental illness and substance abuse, and psychotropic medications and side effects.

AND receives clinical supervision as required at least once a week from a mental health professional until the requirement of 4,000 hours of supervised experience is met.

A practitioner is qualified as a vendor of medical care if the practitioner meets the definition of vendor of medical care in section 256B.02, subdivision 7, paragraphs (b) and (c), and is serving a federally recognized tribe.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in social work, family therapy, professional counseling, or psychology or other behavioral science
• Experience as an ARMHS worker
• Experience working in home.
• Experience with electronic health records

Canvas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. Canvas Health will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based upon a person's race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, status with regard to public assistance, age, sexual or affectional orientation, familial status, ancestry, local human rights commission activity, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other protected class.