Professional Mental Health Practitioner

Prime Home Developmental Disabilities Services, Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Professional Mental Health Practitioner to provide essential treatment and support for individuals facing behavioral and emotional challenges. In this role, you will assess, plan, and implement comprehensive care strategies while collaborating with a diverse team of healthcare professionals. Your expertise will help manage members with severe mental illness and ensure they receive optimal care. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Requires 3000 hours of supervised experience in mental health.
• Must pass an examination approved by the board.

Responsibilities

• Assesses and plans to meet complex psychosocial health needs.
• Acts as a liaison between members, families, and healthcare providers.

Skills

Excellent listening skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Time management

Education

Master's or Doctorate in therapeutic mental health

Job description

The Professional Mental Health Practitioner provides treatment, assessment, psychotherapy, counseling, or equivalent activities to individuals or groups for behavioral, cognitive, social, mental, or emotional issues, including interpersonal and personal situations. Mental health practice also involves the initial assessment of organic mental or emotional disorders for the purpose of referral or consultation. Our Clinical Director and LIMHP will supervise this person.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Needs to obtain the required three thousand hours of supervised experience in mental health practice as specified in section 38-2122 to qualify for a mental health practitioner license shall obtain a provisional mental health practitioner license.
• To qualify for a provisional mental health practitioner license, such person shall: (a) Have a master's or doctorate degree that consists of course work and training which was primarily therapeutic mental health in content and included a practicum or internship and was from an approved educational program as specified in such section; (b) Apply prior to earning the three thousand hours of supervised experience; and (c) Pay the provisional mental health practitioner license fee. A provisional mental health practitioner license shall expire upon receipt of licensure as a mental health practitioner or five years after the date of issuance, whichever comes first. A person who holds a provisional mental health practitioner license shall inform all clients that he or she holds a provisional license and is practicing mental health under supervision.
• Has satisfactorily passed an examination approved by the board. An individual who by reason of educational background is eligible for certification as a certified master social worker, a certified professional counselor, or a certified marriage and family therapist shall take and pass a certification examination approved by the board before becoming licensed as a mental health practitioner.
• Excellent listening and communication skills and good problem solvers. A high tolerance of stressful and even dangerous situations. Excellent time management skills.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITY

• Assesses, plans, implements, monitors and evaluates options and services to meet complex psychosocial health needs of the patient.
• Manages members with severe mental illness who have high rates of behavioral health utilization and/or severe psychosocial vulnerability. Works towards achievement of optimal clinical and resource outcomes.
• Monitors and evaluates effectiveness of care plan and modifies plan as needed. Supports member access to appropriate quality and cost-effective care. Coordinates with internal and external resources to meet identified needs of the member's care plan and collaborates with providers.
• Acts as a liaison and member advocate between the member/family, physician and facilities/agencies. Provides clinical consultation to physicians, professional staff and other team members/supervisors to provide optimal quality patient care and effective operations.
• Interacts continuously with members, family, physician(s), and other resources to determine appropriate behavioral action needed to address psychological and medical needs. Reviews benefits options, researches community resources, trains/creates behavioral routines and enables members to be active participants in their own healthcare.
• Ensures members are engaging with their PCP to complete their care management treatment plan or preventive care services.
• Assists in obtaining benefits for members through community resources when benefits are exhausted or not available.

• Provide clinical intervention through the development of a care management treatment plan specific to each patient, monitor progress toward treatment goals, provide teaching and follow up care.
• Performs in compliance with the Mental Health Practice Act.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk or hear; and smell. The employee is required to drive a vehicle; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach and stretch with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 50 pounds or more. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.