Mental Health Professional II, Employee Assistance Program

The Mental Health Professional II provides treatment and support services to clients in either natural community settings or office-based setting.

Job duties and responsibilities

• Provide service coordination for clients may include coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assume responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall treatment goals in collaboration with the client and team; provide individual and supportive therapy and symptom management.
• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history, mental status, diagnosis; physical and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; and family structure and relationships.
• Provide direct clinical services including supportive psychotherapy to clients on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medications.
• Provide ongoing assessment of clients’ symptoms and response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put client or others at risk for harm.
• Provide symptom education to enable clients to identify their mental illness or relapse symptoms.
• Provide ongoing assessment, problem-solving, side-by-side skill training, supervision (e.g. prompts, assignments, monitoring, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist clients with activities of daily living, securing housing, and having adequate financial support (department specific).
• Plan, structure, and prompt social and leisure-time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays to improve social skills of clients (department specific).
• Provide on-call crisis interventions and serve as back up after hours on rotating schedule (department specific).
• Maintains confidentiality of all materials handled within the Network/ Entity as well as the proper release of information.
• Complies with Network and departmental policies regarding issues of employee, patient and environmental safety and follows appropriate reporting requirements.
• Demonstrates/models the Network’s PCRAFT values during interactions with all customers.
• Demonstrates
• Performance
• Improvement in the following areas as appropriate: Clinical Care/Outcomes, Customer/Service Improvement, Operational System/Process, and Safety.
• Demonstrates financial responsibility and accountability through the effective and efficient use of resources in daily procedures, processes and practices.
• Complies with Network and departmental policies regarding attendance and dress code.
• Demonstrates competency in the assessment, range of treatment, knowledge of growth and development and communication appropriate to the age of the patient treated.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical and sensory requirements

• Must have ability to sit for 2 total hours per day, and up to 1 total consecutive hour.
• Must be able to stand for 8 total hours per day and up to 2 total consecutive hours.
• Must be able to walk 6 total hours per day and up to 10 total consecutive minutes.
• Must have the ability to frequently use fingers/hands for fingering and handling.
• Must have the ability to use upper extremities for frequent pushing of objects up to 10 pounds and occasional pushing of objects up to 75 lbs.
• Must have the ability to transport patients weighing up to 250 lbs. via wheelchair, stretcher and/or bed.
• Must have the ability for frequent stooping and bending.
• Must have the ability for frequent reaching above shoulder level.
• Must have the ability for touching as it relates to feeling objects by touching with the skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Must have the ability for hearing as it relates to normal conversation, high frequency and low frequency hearing sounds.
• Must have the ability for seeing as it relates to general vision, near vision, color vision and peripheral vision.

Education

A Master’s degree with major course work in sociology, social work, psychology, criminal justice, theology, counseling or education. Licensure in Social Work, Psychology or Professional Counseling preferred but not required.

Training and experience

Understanding of principles of mental illness, ability to learn and implement them, and crisis management planning. Direct service experience with mental health consumers. Graduate course work or post-graduate training/experience working with individuals and families presenting with symptoms of mental or co-occurring disorders is preferred. For Family Based Services Programming – A Master’s degree in mental health/human services and a minimum of two years of experience in child/adolescent mental health services or certification in family based mental health services training program and have a least 4 or more years’ experience in Family Based Mental Health Services.

HOURS • Tuesday and Thursday 3

15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

Office location

311 N. Sumneytown Pike, Colmar, PA

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