BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PRACTIONER: CERTIFIED PEER SPECIALIST - ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREAMTENT (ACT)

Brief Description

Pay Range: (Commensurate with experience)

Behavioral Health Practitioner: Starts at $22.29

Behavioral Health Practitioner Bachelor’s Degree or Higher: Starts at $24.69

Schedule: Full-Time Monday – Friday 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM

OPPORTUNITY

Central Minnesota Mental Health Center (CMMHC) is seeking a proven leader to serve as the Behavioral Health Practitioner: Certified Peer Specialist – Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program within our Monticello Team. This position provides a continuum of services including assessment, treatment, education, and support.

WHAT IS ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT?

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an intensive, non-residential mental health service for persons with serious mental illness. These individuals commonly experience multiple barriers to successful functioning, including co-occurring substance abuse or dependence, homelessness and unemployment. ACT teams help individuals treat and manage their mental illnesses and develop the skills they need for life in the community of their choice.

ACT Services Are

• Provided by multidisciplinary team
• A blend of treatment, rehabilitation, therapeutic, and supportive services
• Directed to persons with a serious mental illness who require intensive services
• Offered on a time-unlimited basis and available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
  
  

Duties And Responsibilities

• Functions as a role model to peers; exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills.
• Assists clients in developing empowerment skills and combating stigma through self-advocacy.
• Provides opportunities for people using mental health service to practice self-efficacy, through activities that emphasize the enhancement of skills needed to move forward in mental health recovery.
• Assists peers in regaining independence within the community and mastery over their own recovery process.
• Utilizes and teachers problem solving techniques with individuals and groups.
• Shares own experiences and what skills, strengths, support, and resources the peer specialist used in their own use of mental health services.
• As much as possible, will share their own recovery story and as a facilitator of these sessions, will demonstrate how they have directed their own recovery.
• Supports clients’ vocational choices and assists them in choosing a job that matches their strengths, overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications and providing interview tips.
• Assists the clients in obtaining decent and affordable housing of their choice in most integrated, independent, and least intrusive environment.
  
  

Requirements

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• HS Diploma or GED
• Peer Specialist Certification or enrolled in Peer Certification Training
• Mental Health Practitioner status.
• Experience in wellness coaching.
• Demonstrated experience in providing superior customer service.
• Clear DHS background study.
• Valid Driver’s License and acceptable driving record.
  
  

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience in Community Based Mental Health
• ACT Experience
  
  

Summary

WHY CMMHC?

For more than 60 years, CMMHC has provided comprehensive mental and chemical health services to residents of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns and Wright Counties. Our employees are our greatest asset. We are looking for compassionate people who want to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families struggling with mental and chemical health issues. We offer a great place to work, collaborative team environment, and resources to support your personal and professional development.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive benefits program (Medical and Dental Insurance, HSA, FSA, Vision, Company Paid Employee Life Insurance, Voluntary Term Life, Long-Term Disability, Short-Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program, & Optional Supplemental Insurance)
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 5.5% employer contribution
  
  

What Sets Us Apart

We Develop Our Team: We provide individual developmental experience beginning with our agency orientation and role specific onboarding program. We encourage team members to pursue educational and developmental opportunities through continuing education funds and on-site education programs.

We Take Care of Our Team: We encourage work-life balance with a generous paid time off program and flexible schedules. Our comprehensive benefits plan offers resources for team members to maintain emotional, physical, and financial well-being. In addition, all CMMHC sites are approved for the National Loan Repayment Program to facilitate repayment of Federal Student Loans.

We Support Each Other: Our mission is to foster healthy lives and thriving communities. We carry that mission through to our team in offering a supportive and collaborative work environment. Team members share consistent feedback in feeling supported professionally and personally by our leadership team.

We Celebrate Each Other: We work hard to support our communities and encourage our progress along the way. We offer team building and employee recognition programs that energize and inspire our work individually and as a team.

We Partner with Our Community: We offer dedicated volunteer time and encourage our team members to give back to causes they are passionate about. In addition, we offer volunteer opportunities through structured community partnerships.

CMMHC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity of expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.