Lead Mental Health Practitioner, Full time Freshstart, Duluth, MN

About the job: As a Lead Mental Health Practitioner, you will encourage, teach and model employment related skills to persons served, review job readiness skills, conduct screening with team to assess persons served desires, needs and options for employment. You will be available for persons served to provide positive social interaction, complete or ensure completion of persons served admission and discharge paperwork, monitor, report and document information accurately and promptly. Starting wage is $26 per hour.

Qualifications:

• An individual is qualified as a mental health practitioner through relevant coursework if:
• the individual completes at least 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours in behavioral sciences or related fields and:
• has at least 2,000 hours of experience providing services to individuals with: (i) a mental illness or a substance use disorder; or (ii) a traumatic brain injury or a developmental disability and completes the additional training described in section 245I.05, subdivision 3, paragraph (c), after providing direct contact services to a client;
• is fluent in the non-English language of the ethnic group to which at least 50 percent of the individual's clients belong, and
• completes the additional training described in section 245I.05, subdivision 3, paragraph (c), after providing direct contact services to a client;
• is working in a day treatment program under section 256B.0671, subdivision 3, or 256B.0943;
• has completed a practicum or internship that (i) required direct interaction with adult clients or child clients, and (ii) was focused on behavioral sciences or related fields; or
• is in the process of completing a practicum or internship as part of a formal undergraduate or graduate training program in social work, psychology, or counseling.
• An individual is qualified as a mental health practitioner through work experience if the individual:
  • has at least 4,000 hours of experience in the delivery of services to individuals with: (i) a mental illness or a substance use disorder; or (ii) a traumatic brain injury or a developmental disability, and completes the additional training described in section 245I.05, subdivision 3, paragraph (c), after providing direct contact services to clients; or
  • receives treatment supervision at least once per week until meeting the requirement in clause (1) of 4,000 hours of experience and has at least 2,000 hours of experience providing services to individuals with: (i) a mental illness or a substance use disorder; or (ii) a traumatic brain injury or a developmental disability, and completes the additional training described in section 245I.05, subdivision 3, paragraph (c), after providing direct contact services to clients.

Benefit Highlights:

• Employer contribution towards group medical plan single premium
• Retirement contribution plan with employer match up to 5%.
• PLT/ESST.
• Holiday Pay
• Employer-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary plan options available including Accident, Critical Illness, Dental, additional Life/AD&D, Vision and Short and Long-Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Training
• Flexible Work Schedule

Why choose us:

At Prairie Community Services, we respect life, self, colleagues and others. We work with persons served living in our residential sites and Community Based Services Programs to help identify their challenges and disabilities and to assist, encourage, teach, and utilize their capabilities and skills to the limits of their potential hopes and dreams.

As part of a mission-focused nonprofit that values integrity, commitment, respect, excellence, service and stewardship, we will train you for success!

Prairie Community Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.