Title: Mental Health Clinical Practitioner

Department: Primary Care - Shelter Base Care

Shift: FT/ 8:30AM - 5:00PM CST / M-F

Location: 4009 W Broadway | 4730 N Winthrop

*Willing to work from more than one HAH location during the week.*

Heartland Alliance Health’s (HAH) mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable – particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses – improving health for all and the well-being of our community.

Join us and provide a variety of specialized services to the homeless chronically mentally ill or other special populations. The employee in this position travels to various shelters around the Chicago area to provide supportive services. Individual accountabilities and work volume will be established through the development of annual Success Objectives, within the framework outlined below. This clinician will provide therapy services to individuals in a shelter based care setting all over the Chicago area. Required to be onsite 5 days a week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides short term, solution focused therapy to shelter based participants.
• Collaborate with medical team including doctors, nurses, medical assistants, psychiatrists and interns.
• Manages and implements, on a weekly basis, grand rounds to ensure in-depth problem solving and quality assurance of overall client case management.
• Manages and implements, on a weekly basis, specialized group programming for clients (e.g. medication, self-help and daily living skills development.)
• Reports, in writing, to the Administrator on all grand rounds and in-service schedules. Posts all schedules for staff. Ensures that all staff attends such seminars.
• Monitors, on a weekly basis, all client reviews to ensure that a client case record report is complete and accurate.
• Provides intense advocacy, crisis intervention, counseling and problem solving in a variety of areas for all clients.
• Establishes and maintains a professional and therapeutic relationship within the standards of client profiles, confidentiality laws and the newest clinical research available.
• Assesses, plans and supplements the client’s level of functioning.
• Develops, implements, oversees and follows-up with client treatment plans to ensure that realistic goals and deadlines of accomplishments are being met.
• Maintains documentation of client’s individual and group treatment.
• Maintains the volume of work designated by project standards and utilizes the mental health theory and concepts integrating in clinical practice. On an ongoing basis, assimilates the knowledge of resources available to implement the clinical concepts.
• Assumes all clinical responsibility for clients.
• Manages and participates in all project meetings and maintains the minutes of meetings on a rotating basis.
• Presents clinical case reviews.
• Develops and maintains relationships with outside providers, case managers and hospitals.
• Coordinates and attends clinical rounds of all outside client resources.
• Attends a minimum of 15 educational trainings per fiscal year.
• Maintains medications as specified by the Psychiatrist and keeps legible and accurate records of all medication issues.
• Consults with the Psychiatrist regarding treatment reviews.
• Manages and signs for Medicaid, Medicare and other third party liability billings.
• Adheres to professional standards as outlined by governmental bodies, NASW (and/or other appropriate professional associations), private funding sources, Organization plans/policies and Unit guidelines. Participates in periodic evaluative reviews and/or in-house and external staff training to ensure that he/she understands and continues to adhere to such standards. Initiates requests for assistance from Supervisor to address new issues or complex concepts affecting adherence to professional standards.
• Other duties may be assigned

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and/or Experience: Master’s degree (M.A.) in clinical social work, counseling or clinical psychology; and three years of clinical practice experience in either a hospital or community setting providing group and/or individual therapy.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: MSW, LSW or LPC.
• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Other Qualifications: A valid driver’s license may be required.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Heartland Alliance makes all hiring and employment decisions, and operates all programs, services, and functions without regard to race, receipt of an order of protection, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, amnesty, physical or mental disability, protected veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, use of FMLA, VESSA, military, and family military rights, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight, or HIV infection, in accord with the organization's AIDS Policy Statement of September 1987.