Description:
Position Description
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.
Requirements:
Job Duties and Responsibilities:(Essential Functions)
Supervise residents to assure their health and safety; plus:
- Respond immediately to emergency situations following established policies and procedures.
- Facilitate one to one and group interventions and educational lessons using Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) or Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)materials or materials provided by the MH Professional.
- Consult with the mental health professional on any psychiatric emergency, and follow directions as given.
- Provide a supportive, recovery model and strengths based perspective with all residents • Complete all client skill building and mental health interventions as assigned by the mental health professional
- Closely monitor activities throughout the facility
- Conduct hourly room checks throughout the facility.
- Regularly conduct fire drills, severe weather drills.
- Maintain safe access to medications for residents
- Follow instruction and direction from lead staff.
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 Workers 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.
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