Mental Health Specialist - (PLMHP) Urgent Care

As our Mental Health Specialist (PLMHP), you will have the opportunity to help youth and their families in rural Nebraska by providing behavioral health crisis intervention and prevention services, while working as part of an interdisciplinary team at our new behavioral health urgent care facility in Kearney.  

Schedule:  Full Time, 1p-8p

*Supervision provided by an LIMHP.  Candidate's who plan to obtain their independent licensure in the next 6 months are desired. 

The skills set we are seeking include crisis assessment that focuses on first session stabilization, provision of initial intervention skills, and brief treatment planning. The follow-up care or bridge care will be brief evidence based solution focused strategies that match the patients presenting issue(s) with the patients/families capacity to implement.  Specific modalities might include: CBT, DBT, ACT, MI, crisis assessment, parent training, individual, group and family therapy. It will be essential that successful candidates are trauma care informed. 

Learn more about how Children’s Nebraska Behavioral Health team is making an impact:

Project COPE: Partnering with Primary Care Providers to Strengthen Pediatric Mental Healthcare

Project ECHO Behavioral Health Program

Behavioral Health & Wellness Centers future expansion 

At Children’s, the region’s only full-service pediatric healthcare center, our people make us the very best for kids. Come cultivate your passion, purpose and professional development in an environment of excellence and inclusion, where team members are supported and deeply valued. Opportunities for career growth abound as we grow our services and spaces, including the cutting-edge Hubbard Center for Children. Join our highly engaged, caring team—and join us in providing brighter, healthier tomorrows for the children we serve. Children's is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

A Brief Overview
Provides professional mental health services for patients and families in assigned areas of the hospital/clinics, and on an as needed basis in other areas of the hospital/clinics. Enhances the psychosocial functioning of patients/families and evaluates mental health status, develops treatment plans, and provides group, family, and individual therapy while under provisional supervision. Develops and maintains a positive and long-term credible relationship with patients, physicians, mental health providers, and nursing staff to ensure a team-based approach and effective continuum of care for the patient.

Essential Functions

• Under Provisional Supervision, conducts psychological diagnostic clinical interviews (DCI): • Completes DCI documentation including a differential diagnosis and treatment plan • Completes and document crisis assessment plans. • Collaborates with and facilitates multidisciplinary team discussions to understand the mental health needs of the patients/families. • Appropriately documents all clinical services in chart. • Formulates patient goals and monitors the progression of the plan of care utilizing strength based interventions. • Provides appropriate patient education and documents in the patient’s EMR. • Communicates psychological assessment and plan of care with patient care team. • Assesses high risk individuals and families intervention focusing on the safety and mental health of the patient/family and collaborates with the healthcare team to ensure a safe environment.
• Under Provisional Supervision, provides crisis/supportive counseling and coaching to patients/families • Supports self-management by assisting families with problem-solving, adjustment to illness, and management of comorbid mental and physical health, utilizing evidenced based clinical intervention strategies. • Provides interventions which reflect knowledge of how disease impacts social well-being and is enhanced by disease specific knowledge. • Provides crisis intervention in a variety of situations. • Documents interventions appropriately in chart. Provides recommendations and warm hand-offs to health care team members. • Facilitates support groups as needed.
• Provides referrals for patient and family care navigation in team work with BSW support team. • Gathers information from patients/families. • Shares appropriate resource materials and information with patie