Mental Health Clinical Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Chicago, United States Heartland Alliance Health Full time

**Title**: Mental Health Clinical Practitioner

**Department**:Primary Care - Shelter Base Care

**Shift**:FT/ 8:30AM - 5:00PM CST / M-F

**Location**: 4009 W Broadway | 4730 N Winthrop
- **Willing to work from more than one HAH location during the week.**_

**Heartland Alliance Health’s (HAH)** mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable - particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses - improving health for all and the well-being of our community.

Join us and provide a variety of specialized services to the homeless chronically mentally ill or other special populations. The employee in this position travels to various shelters around the Chicago area to provide supportive services. Individual accountabilities and work volume will be established through the development of annual Success Objectives, within the framework outlined below. This clinician will provide therapy services to individuals in a shelter based care setting all over the Chicago area. Required to be onsite 5 days a week.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provides short term, solution focused therapy to shelter based participants.
- Collaborate with medical team including doctors, nurses, medical assistants, psychiatrists and interns.
- Manages and implements, on a weekly basis, grand rounds to ensure in-depth problem solving and quality assurance of overall client case management.
- Manages and implements, on a weekly basis, specialized group programming for clients (e.g. medication, self-help and daily living skills development.)
- Reports, in writing, to the Administrator on all grand rounds and in-service schedules. Posts all schedules for staff. Ensures that all staff attends such seminars.
- Monitors, on a weekly basis, all client reviews to ensure that a client case record report is complete and accurate.
- Provides intense advocacy, crisis intervention, counseling and problem solving in a variety of areas for all clients.
- Establishes and maintains a professional and therapeutic relationship within the standards of client profiles, confidentiality laws and the newest clinical research available.
- Assesses, plans and supplements the client’s level of functioning.
- Develops, implements, oversees and follows-up with client treatment plans to ensure that realistic goals and deadlines of accomplishments are being met.
- Maintains documentation of client’s individual and group treatment.
- Maintains the volume of work designated by project standards and utilizes the mental health theory and concepts integrating in clinical practice. On an ongoing basis, assimilates the knowledge of resources available to implement the clinical concepts.
- Assumes all clinical responsibility for clients.
- Manages and participates in all project meetings and maintains the minutes of meetings on a rotating basis.
- Presents clinical case reviews.
- Develops and maintains relationships with outside providers, case managers and hospitals.
- Coordinates and attends clinical rounds of all outside client resources.
- Attends a minimum of 15 educational trainings per fiscal year.
- Maintains medications as specified by the Psychiatrist and keeps legible and accurate records of all medication issues.
- Consults with the Psychiatrist regarding treatment reviews.
- Manages and signs for Medicaid, Medicare and other third party liability billings.
- Adheres to professional standards as outlined by governmental bodies, NASW (and/or other appropriate professional associations), private funding sources, Organization plans/policies and Unit guidelines. Participates in periodic evaluative reviews and/or in-house and external staff training to ensure that he/she understands and continues to adhere to such standards. Initiates requests for assistance from Supervisor to address new issues or complex concepts affecting adherence to professional standards.
- Other duties may be assigned

**Qualifications**:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- **Education and/or Experience**:Master’s degree (M.A.) in clinical social work, counseling or clinical psychology; and three years of clinical practice experience in either a hospital or community setting providing group and/or individual therapy.
- **Certificates, Licenses, Registrations**:MSW, LSW or LPC.
- **Language Skills**:Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- **Mathematical Skills**:Ability to add, subtract, multi

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