TITLE:             MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST

                       Licensed Preferred

                       Full-Time

                       Great Benefits

Date Posted:   August 11, 2008

Location:        Montrose, Colorado

Mailing Address: PO Box 1208, Montrose, CO 81402
Phone: For more information, please contact Marge Hanna, 970-252-3221
E-mail: mhanna@midwestmhc.org

Starting Salary, Annualized:          $43,058 (Colorado licensed)

                                                       $36,216 (not licensed)

Job Description:
Utilizes a variety of treatment approaches to work with a diverse client population. Service goals include, but not limited to, providing affordable services, preventing psychiatric hospitalization, preventing out of home placement of minors by improving family functioning, linking clients to other services and agencies and improving the functioning and coping skills of individuals and families. May be assigned to give greater concentration to one or more of the Center's priority populations and/or services.

• Delivers individual, group, family, crisis intervention and case management services to clients designated by the Center. These services may be delivered in the office or within the community.
• Conducts mental health status examinations to establish differential diagnosis and treatment plans.
• Maintains client charts according to the standards outlined in the record keeping procedures, administrative procedures, and quality assurance procedures of the Center.
• Maintains the Center's Standard of Productivity.
• Completes all administrative and clinical paperwork required by the agency.
• Attends regularly scheduled staff meetings, in-service meetings and peer review meetings.
• Participates in the design of client services through needs assessment and discussion with team members and supervisor
• Collaborates with other human service agencies within the community to coordinate client care plans.
• Collaborates with staff psychiatrists to coordinate client care plans.

• Responsible for keeping all client information confidential under the policies and procedures of the Center.

Qualifications: Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Professionally licensed in the State of Colorado required, or actively working toward
• Graduate degree in one of the recognized mental health professions required
• Ability to do mental health status exams to establish differential diagnosis, and treatment plans, service planning, assessment case management and treatment
• A working knowledge of individual, group, family and crisis treatment approaches and their application to clients with emotional, behavioral, and substance abuse problems
• Ability to produce written documentation of clinical work in a manner readily understood by other service providers
• Ability to summarize service themes from a variety of client contacts and communicate suggested improvements for service delivery
• Ability to assess level of risk and make appropriate clinical judgment for resolution of client emergencies to effect a safe outcome
• Must have ability to communicate and work professionally with other service agencies in the community and with others on the team
• Must have basic computer and keyboarding skills and have the ability to enter data in the Center’s computerized record keeping system
• Must have basic knowledge of psycho tropic medications and medical information relevant to mental disorders
• Ability to enter data on the Center's computerized record keeping system
• Ability to travel to the different service sites in the area