Mental Health Practitioner - Permanent Supportive Housing

About the role

Metropolitan Family Services empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. We are now hiring for a Full-time Mental Health Practitioner at our Calumet office.

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive, in-depth clinical assessments for a variety of program services.
• Performs intake as assigned.
• Provides a full range of case management, counseling, advocacy educational and related services.
• Provides services in a non-judgmental and non-discriminatory manner that considers cultural diversity so that autonomy, rights and dignity are preserved.
• Learns and utilizes agency and community resources.
• Assesses community conditions affecting clients to identify resource gaps and problems.
• May recommend financial assistance for clients.
• Provides group services as indicated by program need.
• May be responsible for meeting contractual requirements such as evening hours coverage.
• Represents and interprets programs of agency in community.
• May serve on regional or agency-wide committees.
• Meets agency expectation for quantity of direct service.
• Complies with agency recordkeeping expectations and programmatic documentation requirements.
• Displays cultural competency when working with diverse staff and service population.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Satisfactorily pass