Northern Pines Mental Health Center is proud to offer competitive wages and an exceptional benefits package!
We are seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Mobile Crisis Outreach team. This full-time position will work primarily daytime, weekday shifts and work throughout our six-county service region. Candidates must be qualified as a Mental Health Practitioner per MN DHS. Travel is a function of this position; ability to operate a motor vehicle along with a valid driver’s license is required.
Essential Functions include:
- Enable a recipient to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness
- Enable a recipient to regain and/or retain stability and functioning if the recipient is at risk of losing significant functionality or being admitted to a more restrictive service setting without these services
- Instruct, assist, and support a recipient in areas such as medication education and monitoring; and basic social and living skills in mental illness symptom management, household management, employment-related, or transitioning to community living. This may include transporting recipients in order to effectively accomplish these tasks in a timely fashion.
- Provide interim services when no other resources are immediately available to meet critical consumer need. The service is provided based on need, not program eligibility.
- Connect recipients to mental health continuum of care and resources as needed for ongoing stability after ICTS services completion.
Qualifications include:
- Travel is a requirement of the position; valid driver’s license and ability to operate a motor vehicle are required
- Must meet Mental Health Practitioner status per the State of Minnesota
Benefits include:
- Health, Dental, Disability and Life insurance with other additional voluntary options for spousal life, short term disability, accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness plans
- Health Savings account with employer contribution
- 401K with employer match
- Generous paid time off (1st - 3rd year, full-time employees earn 19 days/152 hours per year. Increases with longevity!)
- Nine holidays observed per year as follows: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and a Weather Float Day.
- Supportive of time off for a healthy work/life balance
- Bereavement Pay
- Travel reimbursement
- Paid Supervision if working toward independent licensure
Northern Pines Mental Health Center is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. Please submit a resume and cover letter if interested in applying.
Keywords: Mental Health, Practitioner, Mental Health Practitioner, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Response, Crisis Response, Mobile Crisis Outreach, Non-profit, Community, Social Work, Minnesota
