Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker Supervisor

Purpose Statement:

Northstar Behavioral Health Intensive Residential Services IRTS is a team of professionals that specialize in co-occurring treatment through a multi-faceted programming structure for those battling mental health and substance use disorders.

Key Result Areas:

• Maintain Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker labor hours to be 556 hours per pay period.
• Grocery Budget $600 per month.
• Staff turnover 1 per quarter.
• 3.5 OT hours per person per payroll.
• 100% completion of staff documentation.
• 100% completion of monthly trainings.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: (Essential Functions)

• Supervise residents to assure their health and safety; plus:
• Weekly 1:1 meetings with the Treatment Director/Treatment Supervisor.
• Weekly 1:1 meetings with the Program Director.
• Review time cards and approve time bi-weekly (Monday).
• Attend weekly IRTS Leadership meetings..
• Conduct monthly Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker meetings as a group, along with the Treatment Director.
• Follow the on-call procedure for site.
• Audit all daily checklists.
• Audit kitchen for Department of Health standards.
• Ensure Program Director and Treatment Director are involved in all Disciplinary Action meetings.
• Complete monthly rounding and keep on file.
• Email Program Director maintenance requests within 24 hours if non-emergency.
• Respond to emergency situations following established policies and procedures.
• Notify the Program Director about hiring needs.
• Train and develop new hires.
• Complete and assist Practitioners with intake/admission procedures, and orientation of new Recipients.
• Participate in Recipient recreational activities with a positive attitude.
• Administer Recipient medications and document accordingly.
• Use sound decision making skills, exhibiting good judgment and realistic understanding of issues.
• Objectively document Recipient-related topics in Recipient files and communication logs.
• Continuously seek out to improve by suggesting solution to operational struggles through soliciting input from co-workers including the treatment director and program director.
• Respond constructively to feedback with an open mind.
• Interact, communicate and collaborate with team members to support the mission of NBH IRTS.
• Participate in staff meetings.
• Plan work tasks to coincide with programming requirements.
• Set priorities in monitoring Recipients, completing rounds, documentation of pertinent information and completion of other assignments.
• Available, in a friendly, respectful, dignified manner to Recipients for questions and other assistance.
• Handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Is highly dependable and can be counted on to work independently, having the ability to work with little direction.
• Consult with the treatment director/mental health professional on any psychiatric emergency, and follow directions as given.
• Closely monitor activities throughout the facility.
• Conduct hourly room checks throughout the facility.
• Regularly conduct fire drills, severe weather drills.

Required Skills and Experience (Minimum requirements in terms of educational background, work experience,
licenses/certifications or other knowledge skills and abilities).

• Must pass required Applicant Background check
• Be 21 years of age or older
• Meets the standards for Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker per DHS guidelines as listed below.

Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker Supervisor must meet the following 4 requirements:

• Have a high school diploma or equivalent.

Must successfully complete 30 hours of training during the two years prior to hiring in each of the following areas:

• Recipient rights
• Recipient-centered individual treatment planning
• Behavioral terminology
• Mental illness
• Co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
• Psychotropic medications and side effects
• Functional assessment
• Local community resources
• Adult vulnerability
• Recipient confidentiality

Meets one of the qualifications in A. or B.

A. Have associate of arts degree in one of the behavioral sciences or is a registered nurse without a bachelor’s degree, or within the previous 10 years has :

• Three years personal life experience with serious and persistent mental illness.
• Three years personal life experience as primary caregiver to an adult with a serious mental illness or brain injury.
• 4000 hours supervised paid work experience in the delivery of mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness or brain injury.

B. Is fluent in non-English language or competent in culture of ethnic group to which at least 20 percent of rehab worker’s recipients belong, and

• receives monthly documented individual clinical supervision during the first 2000 hours employment.
• has 18 hours of documented field supervision by a mental health professional or practitioner during the first 160 hours of contact work with recipients and at least 6 hours of field supervision quarterly during the following year.
• has review and co-signature of charting of recipient contacts during field supervision by a mental health professional or practitioner, and
• has 15 hours of additional continuing education on mental health topics during the first year of employment and 15 hours during every additional year of employment.

Additional Skills and Experience (Preferred or helpful)

• Ability to handle confidential information responsibly.
• Ability to effectively relate to residents in a community or facility.
• Availability and flexibility to work additional hours, as need dictates.
• Successfully complete a background study
• Must know and understand the implications of 245G, sections 245A.65, 626.557, and 626.5572, and Chapter 260E.
• Free of chemical use problems for at least two years immediately preceding hire date and sign a statement attesting to that fact
• Must have a valid Minnesota driver’s license and acceptable driving record
• Proficient working knowledge of Google Suite and internet research

Skills needed: Clarity in verbal and written communication, sensitivity, accuracy, good logic, adaptability and flexibility, teamwork in an interdisciplinary setting, sense of humor, initiative, stress tolerance and safety awareness