Adult Services Mental Health Therapist or Clinical Trainee

As a Partner in Wellbeing, the Mental Health Therapist provides rehabilitative services to clients with mental illness in the form of instruction, support, and assistance to promote psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustments, and independent living skills. Mental Health Practitioner, under the oversight, direction, and evaluations of a mental health professional, may provide an adult client with client education, rehabilitative mental health services, functional assessments, level of care assessments, and treatment plans.

Essential Responsibilities

• Diagnose and treat mental health disorders in one or more of the following settings: home, office, school, or community settings.
• Facilitate sessions with individuals, couples, groups, or families.
• Refer clients to other necessary service providers.
• Complete initial and ongoing mental health outcome measurements.
• Create a treatment plan and implement it based on each client’s recovery vision and needs.
• Monitor client progress during treatment and modify approach as necessary.
• Communicate and coordinate with families and all treatment team members internally and externally (medical, legal, psychiatric, county, SUD) to coordinate care during treatment.
• Complete and update intake, screeners, releases, and forms/paperwork as needed.
• Participate in supervision, team meetings, and interdisciplinary coordination meetings.
• Participate in an on-call professional consultation role for the mobile crisis unit.