ROGRAM: Mississippi Behavioral Health Services, LLC

REPORTS TO: Case Manager, Clinical Director, Corporate Compliance

SUPERVISED BY: Regional Manager; Regional and agency Clinical Manager

(LMHP); Corporate Compliance Officer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide Strength-based, solution-focused supportive therapeutic

services in the community.

Be knowledgeable of your clients including their strengths, diagnosis,

treatment goals and treatment plan.

Assess each recipient for Strengths, Resources, and Goals within the

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 the risk of harm to self or others, identify

precursors, reduce hospitalization, and restore stability.

Participate in collaborative meetings with Mississippi Behavioral Health

Services 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 the recipient.

Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all “no shows,”

and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with the 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 Mississippi

Behavioral Health Services

Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A Mental Health Therapist (MHT) must meet the following educational

criteria:

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

A minimum of fifteen (15) hours of graduate level course work and/or

practicum experience in applied intervention strategies/methods

designed to address behavioral, emotional and mental disorders, as a

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