**Competitive pay, paid time off, paid holidays, employer matched IRA**
Reputable Community Mental Health Agency is currently recruiting for Qualified Professional in its school based Day Treatment program.
Why Work at Getting Ready?
Getting Ready, Inc is a reputable, growing community mental health agency headquartered in Black Creek, NC. It provides child/adolescent mental health services to clients across Eastern NC. Getting Ready, Inc was founded in 2007 by a retired school teacher who understood that the earlier children can receive help for their behavioral and emotional problems, the more success they will have in the future. Getting Ready’s mission is to provide quality services to its consumers and families through dedicated professionals using evidenced based practices to ensure accountability and professionalism at all times. It currently is contracted with Eastpointe MCO, Trillium MCO, NC Health Choice, HealthyBlue Medicaid, and Carolina Complete Health Medicaid. Services provided include School-based Outpatient Therapy, Intensive In-Home Services, Substance Abuse treatment, and Child/Adolescent Day Treatment. Getting Ready currently provides services or has licensed facilities in the following NC Counties: Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck, Craven, Dare, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Nash, Onslow, Pamlico, Pitt, Sampson, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson. Despite consistent growth over the last 15 years, Getting Ready continues to boast a “family-like” atmosphere for its employees. When working at Getting Ready, employees are provided with the support and flexibility they need to provide the most effective services possible for their clients. Getting Ready boasts a low turn-over rate and large potential for individual growth/promotion within the agency. We offer highly competitive salaries and a growing array of benefits. Go to http://gettingreadywilson.net/ to learn more about all Getting Ready has to offer.
Job Summary
The Qualified Mental Health Professional (QP) is part of a Day Treatment team consisting of a Licensed Professional Team Leader (LP), Day Treatment Program Director, other QP’s, and Associate Professionals (AP)/Paraprofessionals (PP). The QP is responsible for up to 6 clients in the Day Treatment program. The QP assists their clients in learning, developing, and utilizing coping strategies, social skills, and other skills to become successful and improve functioning in the school, home, and community settings. The QP provides daily group therapy sessions utilizing psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic interventions/activities with their clients.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Provides daily psychoeducational/psychotherapeutic groups and activities for up to 6 clients and for up to 6 hours per day.
- Coordinates Child and Family Team meetings with all those involved in client’s care.
- Develops and implements the Person Centered Plan for each client, revises and updates the PCP as needed, including adding psychoeducational/psychotherapeutic interventions to the client’s PCP as needed.
- Provides additional case management functions of linking, arranging for services, and referrals for each client.
- Keeps in close contact with families and people involved in the client’s care to encourage and promote family involvement.
- Provides first responder crisis plans, which may require face-to-face and/or telephonically services at times.
- Assures proper administration of all medication and proper documentation (if applicable).
- Develops the daily/weekly/monthly activities schedule with the clients.
- Documents each client’s progress and the effectiveness of the strategies and interventions outlined in the PCP. This includes a daily written progress note for each client.
- Collaborates with the medical and treatment providers.
- Collaborates with school staff and administration.
- Completes NCTopps questionnaires with clients/families.
- Is part of a Day Treatment Team that works closely together and meets weekly to review client updates, effectiveness of interventions used, and additional support.
Qualifications and Skills
Minimum Qualifications: Meets qualifications for a Qualified Professional according to state definitions 10A NCAC 27G.0104,
(a) an individual who holds a license, provisional license, certificate, registration or permit issued by the governing board regulating a human service profession, except a registered nurse who is licensed to practice in the State of North Carolina by the North Carolina Board of Nursing who also has four years of full-time accumulated experience with the population served; or
(b) a graduate of a college or university with a Master’s degree in a human service field and has one year of full-time, post-graduate degree accumulated experience with the population served; or
(c) a graduate of a college or university with a bachelor’s degree in a human services field and has two years of full-time, post-bachelor’s degree accumulated experience with the population served; or
(d) a graduate of a college or university with a bachelor’s degree in a field other than human services and has four years of full-time, post-bachelor’s degree accumulated experience with the population served.
AND
is required to have the skill, knowledge, and experience with child/adolescent Mental Health.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing to undergo a background check?
Education:
- Bachelor’s (Required)
Experience:
- child and adolescent mental health: 2 years (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver’s License (Required)
Work Location: One location
Source: Indeed.com
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