Evening Mental Health Support Specialist (2nd Shift)

National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Student Loan Repayment assistance

22 Days Off Each Year

11 Paid Holidays Per Year

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Summer Hours Off

Tuition Assistance

Work Anniversary Trips

Peace leave

Parental leave

Job summary

National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP) seeks a Mental Health Support Specialist for the Center for Family Engagement and Well-Being in Chicago, IL. This is a 2nd shift position (3pm–11pm), Tuesday through Saturday, located at 777 N.

Green Street. You will provide timely mental health evaluation, crisis intervention, and front-end assessments to determine appropriate service placement, working as part of the care team to support youth and families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with mental health experience.
• Ability to relate therapeutically with customers, display cultural sensitivity and a strong sense of empathy.
• Knowledge of Medicaid Rules and other funder expectations.
• Knowledge of psychiatric diagnosis and recognizes signs/symptoms of psychiatric illness and substance related diagnoses.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, automotive insurance requirement 100,000/300,000 bodily injury, and a good driving record.
• Capacity to organize data, plan, provide written and very feedback, utilize electronic health systems.
• Proficient use of desktop and laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, printers, fax machines and photocopiers as well as software including word processing, spreadsheet and database programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation support.
• Screen referrals for mental health services determine severity and what type of services are needed.
• Work as a member of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support program goals.
• Applies clinical skills to help screen individuals for the program.
• Fostering people skills to be able to connect with clients.
• Develops comprehensive front-end assessment of potential clients.
• Completes clinical assessment of potential clients.
• Utilizes standardized assessment/screening tools effectively in order to help gauge client appropriateness for services.
• Provides individual therapy, depression, anger management, medical providers for related medical conditions.
• Demonstrates the technical and behavioral competencies necessary in the implementation of standardized assessment tools.
• Complete all related screening documentation in a timely manner.
• Completes all required performance tracking, data collection and documentation.
• Performs other duties as requested.

Skills

Empathy

Cultural sensitivity

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Customer service

Education

Bachelor's degree in mental health field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Word processing

Spreadsheets

Databases

Job description

National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP) seeks a Mental Health Support Specialist for the Center for Family Engagement and Well-Being in Chicago, IL. This is a 2nd shift position (3pm–11pm), Tuesday through Saturday, located at 777 N.

Green Street. You will provide timely mental health evaluation, crisis intervention, and front-end assessments to determine appropriate service placement, working as part of the care team to support youth and families.