Mental Health Therapist (Coahoma/Quitman)

Mental Health Therapist (Must reside within 45 miles of Clarksdale) • Provide Strength-based, solution-focused supportive therapeutic services in the community. • Be knowledgeable of your clients including their strengths, diagnosis, treatment goals and treatment plan. • Assess each recipient for Strengths, Resources, and Goals within first 30 days of treatment; provide Strength-based planning and treatment on an ongoing basis. • Ensure each recipient has an Individualized Crisis Recovery Plan on file within 30 days to reduce risk of harm to self or others, identify precursors, reduce hospitalization, and restore stability. • Participate in collaborative meetings with Mississippi Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed. • Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and service definitions. • Communicate client's status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues. • Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient. • Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all "no shows," and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff. • Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed. • Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Case Manager. • Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline. • Return phone calls promptly • Follow all safety rules • Actively participate in all evaluations conducted by Mississippi Behavioral Health Services MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A Mental Health Therapist (MHT) must meet the following educational criteria: • A Master of Social Work degree; or • A Master of Arts, Science or Education degree in a mental health relatedfield (an academic program with a curriculum content in which at least seventy percent of the required courses forthe major field of study are based upon the core mental health disciplines); and o DMH credentialed as a Mental Health Therapist o A minimum of fifteen (15) hours of graduate level course work and/or practicum experience in applied intervention strategies/methods designed to address behavioral, emotional and mental disorders, as a part of, or in addition to the master's degree.