Clinician - Mental Health - Portsmouth, United States - City of Portsmouth, VA

Description

Salary: $ $35.97 Hourly

Location : Portsmouth, VA

Job Type: Part-Time Regular

Job Number: FY

Department: Behavioral Healthcare Services

Opening Date: 05/02/2024

Closing Date: 5/16/2024 11:59 PM Eastern

General Statement of the Job & Essential Functions

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB
Under general supervision, performs professional, administrative, operational, and developmental work in the Children's Community Crisis Stabilization Services (CCCSS) program. Work involves developing and implementing treatment plans. Employee designs training programs to meet individual needs of children and youth. Work involves maintaining records according to program standards. Employee facilitates individual and/or group-counseling sessions and conducts case management as needed. Work involves assessing members' needs and contacting agencies that provide appropriate programs and services. This is a grant funded position and continuation is subject to the availability of funds. Reports to the Program Administrator CCCSS.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Assists members in gaining and utilizing interpersonal skills and essential skills necessary to participate at home and school as well as obtaining support, behavior control, social skills, communication skills, successful interpersonal behavior, and coping skills. Assists members in gaining access to community resources and services as needed; serves as advocate in consumers' obtaining appropriate services. Seeks resources weekly for clients.

Develops and implements treatment plans; documents daily. Provides all documentation for treatment, as required by Medicaid, Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), and Department of Behavioral Healthcare Services (DBHS). Provides crisis intervention, as needed; documents accordingly. Offers instruction on mental health management, symptomology and recovery. Consults with therapists to coordinate care quarterly. Monitors, evaluates, and modifies interventions as needed with respect to treatment goals.

Plans and implements group education classes in mental health, physical health, activities of daily living (ADL's), social interaction, co-occurring issues to assist members in dealing with substance abuse, mental and physical illness, poverty, unemployment, or physical abuse. Problem solves, supports, supervises members related to unit activities. Resolves emergency situations; maintains discipline; and enforces program rules and ensures consumer safety.

Transports and supervise consumers to CCCSS, social and recreational activities, medical, linking them to services as needed. Teaches and models positive social skills, leadership, and advocacy building. Participates in case review and staff meetings weekly. Maintains assigned unit including ensuring an inventory supply, and documentation.

Performs other related work as required.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Knowledge of Job: Has considerable knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of psychosocial rehabilitation, crisis intervention, case management, and mental health issues. Has considerable knowledge of the literature, trends and developments in the field of psychosocial rehabilitative services. Is skilled in promoting the integration of services for psychosocial rehabilitation among a variety of service agencies. Is skilled in assisting, coordinating, and supervising the activities of mentally ill consumers. Is able to use standard office equipment, including a telephone, calculator, copier, facsimile, etc. Is able to compile information from a variety of sources and prepare clear and concise reports. Is able to respond quickly and effectively in a variety of emergency and nonemergency situations. Is able to effectively express ideas orally and in writing. Is able to exercise considerable discretion in handling confidential files and cases. Is able to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.

Quality of Work: Maintains high standards of accuracy in exercising duties and responsibilities. Exercises immediate remedial action to correct any quality deficiencies that occur in areas of responsibility. Maintains high quality communication and interacts with co-workers, consumers and the general public.

Quantity of Work: Maintains effective and efficient output of all duties and responsibilities as described under
"Essential Job Functions."

Dependability: Assumes responsibility for doing assigned work and for meeting deadlines. Completes assigned work on or before deadlines in accordance with directives, policies, standards and prescribed procedures. Accepts accountability for meeting assigned responsibilities in the technical, human and conceptual areas.

Attendance: Attends work regularly and adheres to policies and procedures regarding absences and tardiness. Provides adequate notice to higher management with respect to vacation time and time-off requests.

Initiative and Enthusiasm: Maintains an enthusiastic, self-reliant and self-starting approach to meet job responsibilities and accountabilities. Strives to anticipate work to be done and initiates proper and acceptable direction for the completion of work with a general level of supervision and instruction.

Judgment: Exercises analytical judgment in areas of responsibility. Identifies problems or situations as they occur and specifies decision objectives. Identifies or assists in identifying alternative solutions to problems or situations. Implements decisions in accordance with prescribed and effective policies and procedures and with a minimum of errors. Seeks expert or experienced advice and researches problems, situations and alternatives before exercising judgment.

Cooperation: Accepts supervisory instruction and direction and strives to meet the goals and objectives of same. Questions such instruction and direction when clarification of results or consequences is justified i.e., poor communications, variance with policies or procedures, etc.

Relationships with Others: Shares knowledge with supervisor for mutual benefit. Contributes to maintaining high morale among all consumers and employees. Develops and maintains cooperative and courteous relationships with department employees, staffers and managers in other departments, to project a good image. Tactfully and effectively handles requests, suggestions and complaints from other departments and persons in order to maintain good will. Emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive image within the City and surrounding regions. Interacts effectively with fellow employees, program consumers, supervisors, professionals and the general public.

Coordination of Work: Plans and organizes daily work routine. Establishes priorities for the completion of work in accordance with sound time-management methodology. Avoids duplication of effort. Estimates expected time of completion of elements of work and establish a personal schedule accordingly. Attends meetings, planning sessions and discussions on time. Implements work activity in accordance with priorities and estimated schedules. Maintains a calendar for meetings and deadlines.
Safety and Housekeeping: Adheres to all safety and housekeeping standards established by the City and various regulatory agencies. Sees that the standards are not violated. Maintains a clean and orderly workplace.
Education, Experience & Special Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Graduation from a college or university with a degree in Social Work, Psychology, Education, or a related field. Requires 1 to 3 years related experience; or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Master's Degree is preferred.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Requires a professional certification in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP), Adult or Child, or QMHP Eligible.

Must possess Red Cross First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certifications or have the ability to obtain certifications within 90 days from date of hire and maintain them as a condition of employment.

Requires a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record.

Requires an acceptable general background check to include a local, state, and federal criminal history check along with a sex offender registry check.
Physical Demands

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of automated office equipment which includes telephones, calculators, copiers, computer terminals, facsimile, etc. Must be able to exert up to 20 pounds force occasionally and up to 50 pounds to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects or resisting individuals.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.

Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to unit members, volunteers or assistants. Includes receiving instructions from immediate supervisor.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, documents, evaluations, assessments, summaries, forms, charts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare consumer records, reports, charts, reviews, and treatment plans, using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to interact with individuals and groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems and emergencies, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret a variety of technical or medical instructions in verbal or written form.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of medical or professional languages, including counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract, multiply, and divide.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using automated office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, office equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Sensory Discrimination: Does not require the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with persons acting under stress.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear: (talking - expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing - perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) REQUIREMENTSThe City of Portsmouth is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the City to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.This is a class description and not an individual position description. A class specification defines the general character and scope of duties and responsibilities of all positions in a job classification, but is not intended to describe and does not necessarily list the essential job functions for a given position in a classification.

01

Please select the highest level of education completed.

• Less than High School
• High School Diploma or GED
• Some College
• Associates/Vocational/Technical
• Bachelor's Degree or Higher

02

Do you have Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, or a related field?(preferred)

• Yes
• No

03

Do you have a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record?

• Yes
• No

04

Do you have 1-3 years of related experience?

• Yes
• No

05

Do you have a professional certification in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP - Adult or Child) or QMHP eligible?

• Yes
• No

06

Do you have or able to pass Red Cross Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid Certifications or have the ability to obtain certifications within 90 days from date of hire and maintain them as a condition of employment?

• Yes
• No

Required Question