QMHP, Intensive In-Home

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $21-$26 / hour

Position Summary

The Qualified Mental Health Professional is responsible for providing individual skills training, mentoring, case

management and care coordination services for clients in the Intensive In-Home Program. These services are

primarily provided in the home.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Manages a caseload of clients, providing services on an intensive basis and utilizing short-term, solution

focused treatment strategies

Clearly identifies problem areas and needs, strategies, and service objectives supports in determining and

meeting service objectives and to identify additional resources and supports

Prepares written service plan, incorporating input from clients, involved service providers and wraparound

team members, and clearly identifying problem

Provides psycho-educational service to clients, including individual, family, and interventions and

issues-specific or educational groups (parenting skills, anger management)

Responds to crisis situations with twenty-four hour a day availability

Documents case activities for both clinical and billing purposes

Prepares progress reports as required by referral source or service purchaser

Participates in Child Specific Team, Family Assessment and Planning Team, and other interdisciplinary,

diagnostic, or planning meetings

Collaborates and coordinates with other case involved service providers and professionals, such as attorneys,

school personnel, social workers, and probation counselors

Links clients with external programs or services, such as health services, recreational activities, childcare

services, financial resources, employment resources, AA / NA groups, transportation resources, and others

Attends court hearings when families are court-involved and presents testimony and treatment

recommendations as requested by attorneys, referral source, the court, or client

Guides, collaborates, and coordinates with follow up services with various community resources to include

mentoring services and case management services, and ensuring the adequate exchange of information is

provided

Meets every week with Clinical Director to provide clinical guidance, assess dynamics and needs of each

case, determine the appropriateness of therapeutic strategies, and assess progress of service delivery and

planning

Works with Clinical Director to increase effectiveness of therapeutic interventions

Prepares written Discharge Summary and Plan

Apprises Clinical Director of workload, case activity, service barriers, and procedural problems in staff and

one-on-one meetings

Required Licenses / Certifications :

• QMHP Certification
• CPR / First Aid
• TOVA

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, there must be an ability to perform a range of motions, including but not limited to, sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, climbing / descending stairs and driving for periods exceeding one hour. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. The employee will be required to complete a tuberculosis screening upon hire.