Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Response - Northern Pines Mental Health
Brainerd, MN 56401
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Northern Pines Mental Health Center is proud to offer competitive wages and an exceptional benefits package!
We are seeking aMental Health Practitionerto join ourMobile Crisis Outreach/ Mental Health Urgent Careteam.Travel throughout the six-county region will be required.The purpose of this role is to triage crisis calls and provide mental health assessments for evaluation of any immediate needs or crisis situations both in a community-based setting and in our Mental Health Urgent Care Clinic. Dedicated Practitioners will consult with the professional on duty after each assessment. MCO staff will work in teams with rotating shifts. Some holidays may be required. To allow appropriate response to crisis situations, this rolemay include on-call hours that achieve coverage 24 hours a day/7 days per week/365 days a year.
Essential Functionsinclude:
- Provide consultation to staff regarding crisis situations
- Provide training to staff regarding assessments in crisis situations
- Conduct crisis assessments, an immediate, face-to-face evaluation to: identify any immediate need for emergency services, determine that the recipient’s behavior is a serious deviation from his/her baseline level of functioning and caused by either a mental health crisis or emergency, provide immediate intervention to relieve the recipient’s distress
- Determine the need for crisis intervention services, or referrals to other resources, based on crisis assessments
- Promptly provide crisis interventions, face-to-face, short-term, intensive mental health services provided during a mental health crisis or emergency in order to help recipients: cope with stressors, identify and use available resources, avoid unnecessary hospitalization and loss of independent living, develop action plans, begin to return to his/her baseline level of functioning
- Develop culturally appropriate crisis intervention treatment plans with clients and update as necessary
- Refer clients to different/ additional mental health services
- Provide crisis stabilization services: mental health services, provided after crisis intervention, to help the recipient return his/her functioning to the level it was before the crisis by: considering the crisis assessment and intervention treatment plan, consider the need for further assessment and referrals, update the crisis stabilization treatment plan, provide supportive counseling, conduct skills training, collaborate with other service providers in the community, provide education regarding mental illness support to the recipient’s people network
Qualificationsinclude:
- Travel is a requirement of the position; valid driver’s license and ability to operate a motor vehicle are required
- Must qualify as a mental health practitioner as defined by the Minnesota Department of Human Services in one of the following ways:
- Has at least 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours in Behavioral Sciences or related fields AND has completed a practicum or internship that required direct interaction with adults or children served, and was focused on behavioral sciences or related fields
- Has at least 2,000 hours (approximately one year working full-time) of supervised work experience in the delivery of mental health services OR
- Holds a master's or other graduate degree in behavioral sciences or related fields
Benefitsinclude:
- Health, Dental, Disability and Life insurance with other additional voluntary options for spousal life,short term disability, accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness plans
- Health Savings account with employer contribution
- 401K with employer match
- Generous paid time off (1st - 3rdyear, full-time employees earn 19 days/152 hours per year. Increases with longevity!)
- Nine holidays observed per year as follows: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and a Weather Float Day.
- Supportive of time off for a healthy work/life balance
- Bereavement Pay
- Travel reimbursement
- Paid Supervision if working toward independent licensure
Northern Pines Mental Health Center is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. Please submit a resume and cover letter if interested in applying.
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