Mental Health Professional I - Transitions Specialist (Forensics)

Job Responsibilities

Under general supervision of the Program Manager I for the Office of Transitions Programs, you will identify and execute activities that result in patient discharge from ED, jail, or detention center settings to integrated community residences and community resources, to include discharge plan development, accessing residential setting, patient assessment and linking to community-based providers.

• Quality Management: Responsible for conducting CMHC Initial Clinical Assessments and DLA20s with patients choosing CMHC for outpatient provider to support continuity of services from ED, jail, and/or detention center to outpatient settings; coordinates and locates community-based residential settings options, based on patients' discharge plan; collects data for performance improvement; Utilize the EMR to document services provided.
• Leadership: Coordinate staffing with CMHC regarding program placement for patient when discharged; provides face-to-face and/or video introduction of patient to community providers to include care coordinator and peer support specialist; attends treatment team meeting, discharge committee meetings, patient staffing and discharge staffing to provide community-based resources and/or options for discharge planning.
• Initiative: Identify, collect, and routinely update an inventory of integrated community-based residences for Transition Team distribution/ resource directory; brokers needed community resources/services and develops resources where gaps exist.

Minimum and Additional Requirements

• A master’s degree in guidance, counseling, the social sciences or a related field.
• Additional Requirements - Ability to bend, stoop, climb, drive from location to location, lift and file; must perform duties in multiple settings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Six (6) months to one (1) year experience in a clinical program.
• Bilingual abilities in English and Spanish (or another language) are a plus.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance for employees, spouse, and children.
• 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
• 15 days sick leave per year
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• S.C. Deferred Compensation Program available (S.C. Deferred Compensation)
• Retirement benefit choices *

Note

• The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions including, but not limited to, lactation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.