CCBHC Client Engagement Specialist Mental Health Professional

About the role

Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. Since 1857, MFS has been the engine of change that empowers families to reach their greatest potential and positively impact their communities.

Essential Job Functions

• Aid in conducting IM+CANS assessments and implementing treatment plans.
• Perform open access as assigned.
• Provide case management, support financial budgeting, assist with public benefits, counseling, advocacy, health education, and community support services.
• Identify practical barriers and utilize agency and community resources.
• Assess community conditions affecting clients to identify resource gaps and problems.
• Offer individual and group counseling, and skills training.
• Respond to client and family needs outside of scheduled sessions, including during crises.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary professionals and community agencies to provide a continuum of coordinated care.
• Coordinate care with family members, internal providers, and external partners such as schools, DCFS, hospitals, and community organizations.
• Serve on regional or agency-wide committees.
• Maintain agency expectations for direct service quantity and quality, fidelity to evidence-based practices.
• Maintain timely and accurate client records and necessary agency and CCBHC required reporting.
• Participate in agency and site-based required meetings and trainings.
• Work effectively with diverse staff and service population.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a human services field or a bachelor’s degree in any field with two years of documented experience in a mental health setting, required.
• Must obtain and maintain IM+CANS certification, required.
• Eligibility for, or possession of, the Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) credential, preferred.
• Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) or experience working with clients experiencing substance use, preferred.
• IM+CANS certification, preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Satisfactorily pass all relevant screening and criminal background checks.
• Transportation/Travel Requirements: Driving for work required with transportation of clients preferred in a personally owned vehicle.

Physical Demands

• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal.

Pay

The average starting salary for this position will fall in the range of $45,000 and $49,000 annually. Final salary will be determined based on years of experience, licensure level, and relevant credentials. A $2,500 sign-on bonus for first-time employees with MFS!

Schedule

Will include some evenings, weekends, and possible on-call.

Benefits

Includes medical coverage, dental coverage, and vision coverage. Metropolitan Family Services contributes $2,000 to individual and $4,000 to family HSA accounts, pro-rated to your benefits start date. Free general medicine and behavioral health Teladoc services provided to all team members. Ascent 401K plan services with a 4% employer match, vested at 100% on day one of eligibility. And so much more!

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