This Position is for a Mental Health Therapist with a behavioral health services location in Greenville.

Responsibilities: Provide Strength-based, solution-focused supportive therapeutic services in the community; Be knowledgeable of clients, including their strengths, diagnosis, treatment goals and treatment plan; Assess each recipient for Strengths, Resources, and Goals within first 30 days of treatment; Provide Strength-based planning and treatment on an ongoing basis; Ensure each recipient has an Individualized Crisis Recovery Plan on file within 30 days to reduce risk of harm to self or others, identify precursors, reduce hospitalization, and restore stability; Participate in collaborative meetings with Agency staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed; Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and service definitions; Communicate client’s status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues; Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient; Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all “no shows,” and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff; Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed; Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Case Manager; Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline; Return phone calls promptly; Follow all safety rules; Actively participate in all evaluations conducted by Agency.

Qualifications: A Master of Social Work degree; or A Master of Arts, Science or Education degree in a mental health related field (an academic program with a curriculum content in which at least seventy percent of the required courses for the major field of study are based upon the core mental health disciplines) AND DMH credentialed as a Mental Health Therapist, Official University Transcripts, Proof of auto insurance and registration, A minimum of fifteen (15) hours of graduate-level coursework and/or practicum experience in applied intervention strategies/methods designed to address behavioral, emotional and mental disorders, as part of, or in addition to the Master's degree.

Job #655960