Mental Health Worker - Outpatient/School Based

REQUIREMENTS:

Academic – meets one (1) of the criteria below:
Mental health worker—A person acting under the supervision of a mental health professional to provide services who meets one of the following:

1. Has a bachelor's degree from a college or university that is accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the CHEA in a recognized clinical discipline including social work, psychology, nursing, rehabilitation or activity therapies.
2. Has a graduate degree in a clinical discipline with 12 graduate-level credits in mental health or counseling from a program that is accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the CHEA.
3. Has an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated by the AICE or the NACES. The Department will accept a general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalency.

Physical Requirements:

1. Must have audio/visual/verbal activity to provide clinical services to the clients and to perform essential job functions.

Emotional Requirements:

1. Must have emotional stability to perform essential job functions.

Other Requirements:

1. Ability to accept supervision. Any individual hired in this position is required to have a minimum of two hours of supervision per month (1 of which, must be individual).
2. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with agency personnel and community agencies.
3. Ability to adjust hours to job requirements.
4. Ability to work independently.
5. Must possess good written and verbal communication skills.
6. Ability to protect the confidentiality of the clients.
7. Ability to identify with the agency’s mission statement and support the agency’s core values.
8. Have current PA State Police clearance, PA Child Abuse History clearance, and FBI Clearance.

KNOWLEDGE AREAS:

• Individual and Family Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Couples Counseling
• Theological Sensitivity
• Positive Discipline
• Therapeutic Interventions and Approaches
• Child Protective Services Law
• Trauma Treatment
• Behavioral Modification
• DSM 5 Diagnoses

What You'll Do: 

1. Provide individual, family, group and couples counseling to clients as defined in an individualized treatment plan generated within 15 days or 2 sessions of date of admission and updated at a minimum of 120 days. Treatment plan goals are to be measurable with progress documented in a progress note for each session.
2. Complete clinical file documentation in a timely manner (initial paperwork within 72 hours, psychosocial within 2 weeks, payroll according to agency schedule) and in accordance with agency policies and procedures. Maintain case documentation according to DHS requirements.
3. Consult with psychiatrist, other involved program areas or providers on a regular basis to ensure continuity of care and coordination of services.
4. Attend regularly scheduled supervisory sessions with clinical supervisor and psychiatrist. Present/Review case files as required by supervisor.
5. Complete the agency's orientation and keep up to date with personnel and training requirements
6. Must meet identified productivity expectations.