Intern: Family Based Mental Health Professional

Intern: Family Based Mental Health Professional
 

Summary
The Intern: Family Based Mental Health Professional will provide family therapy, individual, group or other treatment modalities or interventions within the home, school, and community as necessary to maintain the family in a stable home condition; The Family Based Mental Health Professional will serve as the lead therapist within the team.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for screening, assessing, treatment planning and after-care discharge planning for all families assigned.
• Attend and participate in appropriate conferences, meetings, training sessions and treatment sessions as they relate to the families in this project when possible.
• Conduct family, individual and group therapy and case management goals will be linked directly to the treatment plan, treatment plan reviews and case notes.
• Ensure that psychotherapeutic and case management goals will be linked directly to the plan, treatment plan reviews and case notes.
• Establish a close and extended family like relationship with identified families as a unit.
• Provide links to community resources, and all other appropriate services for the family.
• Provide 24-hour emergency services 7 days per week, as scheduled, and provide back-up for other team members when appropriate.
• Perform case management activities or monitor them as necessary to ensure the success of the treatment plan.
• Through collaboration and/or supervision, ensure the involvement of the mental health worker in the assessment, treatment, planning, treatment delivery, relationship with the family and discharge planning.
• Arrange for relief services as required by the treatment plan.
• Present, with the mental health worker, the progress and status of the plan at staffing.
• Responsible to the program supervisor for program statistics and other needed documents, which may include weekly productivity reports and other basic administrative duties.
• Ensure proper disbursement of FSS funds.
• Attend weekly staff meetings.
• Attends quarterly general staff meetings.
• Participates in ongoing in-service training programs.
• Utilize NTC’s Electronic Health Records (E.H.R.) during tenure of employment. Initial training and on-going training will be provided to employee by respective supervisor and/or assigned team member.
• Employee will be proficient in their job position within six (6) months. If at any time an employee feels they need more training/education, employee submits a request for such through their supervisor, manager, and/or director.
• Other duties and functions as assigned.

• Must possess the ability to analyze complex issues and solve them correctly and creatively. 
• Must possess the ability to meet established deadlines and schedules. 
• Must be able to maintain confidentiality in all matters relating to the clients and the client’s family. 
• Must be organized and efficient in the performance of their job. 
• Must possess leadership qualities. 
• Ability to make clear and pertinent statements both orally and in writing.
• Takes initiative - seek ways to complete assignments with a minimum of guidance.
• Job Knowledge - consider relationship in length of time in assignment. 
• Problem Solving - take on new responsibilities and work toward solutions.  
• Communication - effectively communicate both verbal and written format with peers, consumers, management.
• Commitment to continued learning - works to improve self and team members.
• Continuous quality Improvement - works to eliminate waste and make improvements.
• Teamwork - acts as team player, supports team goals, can lead and follow.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Attendance - works as scheduled.
• Positive Attitude - gets involved in company groups.
• Flexibility - ability to accept new directions on short notice.
• Cross Training - works to share knowledge with others in a helpful way.

• Knowledge of psychotherapy modalities, principles and practices as well as demonstrative capacity to further develop the same.
• Knowledge of individual and group behavior and interrelationships between families, social, economic, psychological and physiological factors.
• Good knowledge and ability in the utilization of therapeutic skills and principles.
• Ability to plan and integrate all clinical services received by the family or child involved in the program.
• Ability to analyze, interpret and evaluate clinical records, make clinical and formulate service plans and family goals.
• Ability to supervise and work as lead therapist in conjunction with a secondary family based mental health worker.
• Ability to perform basic administrative duties and tasks assigned by the program supervisor.
• The Intern Mental Health Professional must be enrolled in a graduate program in psychology, social work, nursing, education or any other graduate degree in the field of human services, plus two years’ experience in like system or be a licensed RN with 5 years psychiatric experience plus certification by the office of Mental Health as a Family Based worker or enrollment in an OMH approved Family Based Training Program, or a bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology , social work, nursing or any degree in the field of human services plus certification by the office of mental health as a family based mental health worker.

• Must be able to travel.
• Current/Valid Driver’s License.
• Position may/will require use of own vehicle.
• Sedentary work: duties require exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry push, and pull articles such as files and computer binders.

• Works in well-lit office environment.
• Works in the home, community, and school.

• Ability to write reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Timeliness
• Respectful and professional communication with all clients, peers and supervisors.
• You will be expected to contribute fully to the development of your learning goals.
• Be open to receiving feedback and open to new learning opportunities.
• Maintain all client confidentiality.
• Adhere to all guidelines and policies set forth for employees by Northern Tier Counseling, Inc.

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