What are the responsibilities and job description for the Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) position at AOC Outreach Services?
Job post summary
Date posted: February 10, 2026
Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour
Job description:
Job Description
QMHP-CS Headquarters
AOC Outreach Services is a community-based child mental health care agency serving children between 3-17 years-old. Our Agency is seeking to award contracts to community partners in the Houston area, who want to become self-employed business-owners working in the mental health field.
Job Description:
The purpose of this position is to provide a range of services geared toward engaging, supporting, and coaching parents, children, and youth in child welfare. The goal is to develop rapport with the child/youth and aid in optimizing the child's functioning in the most efficient and effective manner possible. The Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP-CS) will provide goal directed interventions to stabilize children and youth in transition. We are seeking qualified QMHP-CS with a degree in the field and at least one year of experience in the field. Completion of Daily session notes with 24 hours after session.
QMHP-CS providers are eligible to deliver MHTCM and MH rehabilitation services and must meet the following minimum credentialing requirements:
- Schedule & attend weekly client sessions.
- Complete & submit session notes within 24 hours after session.
- Achieve 80 % of client’s weekly hours target goal.
- Attend continuing education meetings such as Community Partner Clinical Supervision meeting (virtual) by-weekly.
- Participate continuing education meetings such as in person community partner meetings by-weekly.
- Participate continuing education meetings such as Community Partner Coaching session (In-person & virtually) by-weekly
- Completed a standardized training curriculum
- Demonstrated competency in the work to be performed
- Must have at least 3-5 years of experience in the field
QMHP-CS providers are eligible to deliver Mental Health Targeted Case Management and Mental Health rehabilitative services and must meet the following minimum credentialing requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum number of hours that are equivalent to a major in psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, counseling, sociology, human growth and development, physician assistant, gerontology, special education, educational
- psychology, early childhood education, or early childhood intervention
- A license as a registered nurse (RN) Staff administering the assessment instruments must have documentation of current certification in the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment (CANS) or the Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA). Certification must be updated annually through an approved entity. An individual who possesses any of the following licenses is considered a Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA) and is automatically certified as a QMHP-CS:
- Physician
- Physician Assistant * Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
- Psychologist * Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) A QMHP-CS must be clinically supervised by another QMHP-CS. If a QMHP-CS is clinically supervised by another QMHP-CS, the supervising QMHP-CS must be clinically supervised by an LPHA.
- Completion of Daily session notes with 24 hours after session
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Work for yourself
- Flexible schedule
- Performance Coaching
- Fulfilling Career
- Entrepreneurship Training
Schedule:
- After school
- Choose your own hours
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Work setting:
- Hybrid work
License/Certification: (Within 30 days of being awarded AOC contract)
- State Driver's License
- Texas CANS 1.0 Certification for ages (3-6) & (6-17)
- Defiant Child Course Certification
- Aggression Replacement Training Certification
- Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA) Certification
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Certification
- Seeking Safety Course Certification
- Nurturing Parenting Course Certification
Shift availability:
- Day Shift
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Laredo, TX
Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Laredo, TX 78041
Salary : $20 - $25