Professional Mental Health Practitioner

Job Description

Job Description

Salary :

The Professional Mental Health Practitioner provides treatment, assessment, psychotherapy, counseling, or equivalent activities to individuals or groups for behavioral, cognitive, social, mental, or emotional issues, including interpersonal and personal situations. Mental health practice also involves the initial assessment of organic mental or emotional disorders for the purpose of referral or consultation. Our Clinical Director and LIMHP will supervise this person.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Needs to obtain the required three thousand hours of supervised experience in mental health practice as specified in section 38-2122 to qualify for a mental health practitioner license shall obtain a provisional mental health practitioner license.
• To qualify for a provisional mental health practitioner license, such person shall : (a) Have a master's or doctorate degree that consists of course work and training which was primarily therapeutic mental health in content and included a practicum or internship and was from an approved educational program as specified in such section; 6 (b) Apply prior to earning the three thousand hours of supervised experience; and (c) Pay the provisional mental health practitioner license fee. (2) A provisional mental health practitioner license shall expire upon receipt of licensure as a mental health practitioner or five years after the date of issuance, whichever comes first. (3) A person who holds a provisional mental health practitioner license shall inform all clients that he or she holds a provisional license and is practicing mental health under supervision and shall identify the
• (3) Has satisfactorily passed an examination approved by the board. An individual who by reason of educational background is eligible for certification as a certified master social worker, a certified professional counselor, or a certified marriage and family therapist shall take and pass a certification examination approved by the board before becoming licensed as a mental health practitioner.
• Excellent listening and communication skills and good problem solvers. A high tolerance of stressful and even dangerous situations. Excellent time management skills

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITY

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 the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS :

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY :

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

WORK ENVIRONMENT :