Mental Health Court Therapist

Position Responsibilities

• Provide clinical behavioral health care services to adults, children and families.
• Participate in the planning and promotion of community mental health service programs.
• Meet established productivity expectations.
• Direct psychotherapy, assessments or treatment plans, involving a minimum of 10 hours per week individual, group, or family therapy.
• Maintain current clinical case records and other required documentation.
• Attend staff meetings and clinical meetings as scheduled.
• Provide on-going treatment to clients.
• Complete appropriate documentation and development treatment plans.
• Participate in clinical staffing.
• Participate in Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement activities as required.
• Report OMHIS/ECHO data for clients assigned to care.
• Confer with medical staff on problems related to clients in care.
• Confer with medical staff on appropriate cases.
• Keep paperwork up-to-date and turn in required paperwork/reports in a timely fashion.
• Support and promote a service environment for individuals needing behavioral health and/or co-occurring services.
• Perform a basic screening to determine if co-occurring disorders might exist and refer the consumer for a formal assessment.
• Engage clients to enhance and facilitate future interaction.
• De-escalate consumers who are agitated, anxious, angry, or in other vulnerable emotional states.
• Manage crises involving consumers, including threats of suicide or harm to others.
• Refer consumers to appropriate mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities and follow up to ensure care.
• Use knowledge of psychotropic medications and their actions.
• Collaboratively develop and implement an integrated treatment plan based on thorough assessment.
• Assess substance-related disorders and other mental health disorders using DSM-5 criteria.
• Provide and/or participate in ongoing in-service training.

Requirements

• Possession of a master’s degree in clinical counseling, social work, or other mental health related field from an accredited graduate school.
• Current, unrestricted license to practice (LPC, LMFT, or LCSW) or active registration as a candidate for licensure under approved clinical supervision.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to move from location to location, bending, stooping, lifting up to 25 pounds.
• Communicate clearly.
• Prepare written communications.
• Present information to other employees.
• Process complex information within established procedures/programs.
• Enter data to various programs.
• Must be able to climb stairs and access non-handicapped equipped residences/facilities.