Intensive Care Manager, Adult (Nashville, TN)

Ranked one of Tennessee’s top places to work, MHC is a rare and special place where outstanding company culture is intentional. Where clients and associates are treated the same, as equals.

Mental Health Cooperative, Inc. (MHC) was formed in 1993 to serve individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.  Since then, we have expanded our services to children and adolescents with severe emotional disorders across Middle and East Tennessee.

Our sole purpose is to support and treat those challenged with serious mental illness and poverty. Although based out of Nashville, we serve several communities across middle and East Tennessee with satellite offices in Antioch, Gallatin, Dickson, Columbia, Cleveland, Murfreesboro, Clarksville, Cookeville, Chattanooga, and Memphis. 

If you are interested in joining a team that is caring, collaborative, innovative and energizing this might be a great place for you!

Job Title: Intensive Care Manager, Adult (Nashville, TN)

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (onsite/field)

JOB SUMMARY: This member of the multidisciplinary team has responsibility to carry out rehabilitation and support functions and assist in treatment, substance abuse services, education, support and consultation to families; and crisis intervention under the clinical supervision of staff with professional degrees.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide case management for an assigned group of consumers including coordination and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team.
• Responsible for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall treatment goals, plans and concurrent reviews in conjunction with Individual Treatment Team (ITT).
• Provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management.
• Educate and support consumers’ families.
• Advocate for the rights and preference of consumers.
• Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history, mental status, diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; and family structure and relationships.
• Act as liaison and consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.
• Perform shift management according to established policies and procedures.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention according to established policies and procedures.
• Document consumer progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established policies and procedures.
• Provide support services to the treatment and rehabilitation of consumers.
• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meeting and monthly all staff meetings.
• Provide on-going assessment of consumers’ mental illnesses symptoms and consumers’ response to treatment.
• Provide symptom education to enable consumers to identify their mental illness symptoms.
• Provide direct clinical services to consumers on an individual group and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting clients to adapt and cope with internal and external stresses.
• Provide multiple-stage individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings to develop a trusting relationship with clients so that they may more freely discuss substance use and its effect on mental and physical health and daily functioning.
• May participate in setting treatment goals and plans with clients to reduce or abstain from substance and to learn replacement behaviors.
• Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify clients and establish linkage to outpatient treatment, self-help programs, outpatient services and residential facilities.
• Participate in the provision of rehabilitation services.
• Provide individual vocation-supportive counseling to enable consumers to identify vocational strengths and problems, establish vocational or career goals and plans to reach them, and recognize and target symptoms of mental illness that interfere with work.
• Plan and provide work-related supportive services, such as assistance with grooming and personal hygiene, securing of appropriate clothing, wake-up calls and transportation.
• Provide benefits counseling.
• Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision (e.g., prompts, assignments, monitoring, encouragement) and environmental adaptations to assist clients with activities of daily livin