Our Licensed Mental Health Rehabilitation Practitioner will establish helping relationships with 24 people who have psychiatric and co-occurring substance abuse disabilities.  The primary role of the practitioner is to assist individuals to connect with and utilize formal and natural resources critical to attaining and maintaining productive, healthy, and satisfying lifestyles. Key activities include individual rehabilitative goal planning, group and individual work using a psycho-educational format, training staff, providing on-site coverage and teamwork with multi-disciplinary colleagues within an OMH licensed PROS program.

 

 

 

The successful candidate should possess or be quickly able to acquire the following skills and abilities:

• Manage a caseload of a minimum of 24 participants
• Facilitate Psychoeducational Groups
• Complete all required documentation in the time frame it is due
• Complete additional assessments for non LPHA staff
• Create, Organize, and Distribute Group Schedule of Psychoeducational Groups
• Assist in monitoring for quality and compliance
• Assist in trainings of new procedures and documentation to PROS staff
• Assist with extracurricular activities to enhance member satisfaction
• Assist with client feedback collection
• Provide on-site coverage for clinical and crisis support
• Attend and participate in staff meetings
• Attend and participate in assigned trainings

 

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Establish relationships with PROS participants to develop person centered goals
• Learn and use Electronic Health record
• Excellent Inter-personal Communication Skills
• Organize and manage time efficiently
• Work collaboratively as a team
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to think creatively and innovatively
• Sound clinical judgment and decision-making skills

 

Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a human service/health discipline with an active NYS licensure in one of the following LPHA disciplines: LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LCAT
• 2+ years’ experience working in the mental health field

 

 

 

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