Mental Health Worker

Join our team as a Mental Health Worker with strong potential for permanent placement. This role offers a great opportunity to demonstrate your skills, contribute in a fast-paced environment, and grow with the organization.

Requirements

• Assist the therapist in the provision of individual/family and/or group therapy sessions
• Empower consumers and families with identifying and building upon their strengths
• Maintain regular collaboration with all systems involved with consumer and family
• Provides emotional support, time structured activities, and positive behavioral reinforcement
• Assist with decreasing the likelihood of admission/re-admission to residential, mental/behavioral treatment programs of inpatient psychiatric settings
• Evaluate consumer and family needs, interests, and response to treatment
• Helps family access community resources and supports
• Follows up on all consumers needing hospitalization
• Intervenes as needed when problem behaviors are exhibited
• Make and track 24-48 hour reminder calls
• Provide transportation support for consumers
• Ensure that medical records are prepared for MHP prior to contact
• Schedules appointments and co-facilitates all interagency and discharge meetings
• Obtains and updates all consents as needed
• Make any necessary recommendations and referrals to other programs within and outside of Warren E. Smith
• Complete and submit all progress notes and required documentation in a timely, comprehensive, and legible manner
• Be flexible in scheduling appointments to meet consumer and family needs
• Contribute to any quality improvement/ outcome measurement tracking and data gathering as assigned
• Meet productivity standards for your position

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Health Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Life Insurance