QMHP-A

Must meet and maintain QMHP-A/C/T Registration or LMHP or License eligible status with the Virginia Board of Counseling regarding education, experience, and continuing education; must have a working knowledge of the areas of need for adults with serious mental illness; must have appropriate clinical skills to facilitate training in daily living skills to adults with serious mental illness; must be able to work from a person-centered framework when providing training services; must have clinical interviewing skills; must have the understanding or ability to train in appropriate mental health skill-building, and crisis interventions; must be able to identify clinical risk factors for suicide, violence and other risk-taking behaviors. A valid Virginia Driver’s License is also required for employment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide intensive crisis services in the client’s residence, hotel (if homeless), and/or community at a frequency based on the need of the individual
• Provide goal-directed short/Long-term counseling interventions to stabilize an individual’s mental health condition and prevent the individual from being at risk for hospitalization due to psychiatric instability
• Monitor psychiatric symptoms and refer individual for crisis intervention evaluation/inpatient admission if symptoms intensify to the degree the individual is at risk for imminent harm to self or others
• Monitor medication adherence and ensure individual completes a psychiatric evaluation during crisis admission
• Refer client for community resources and professional mental health and medical supports needed to stabilize their condition
• Collaborate with wraparound service providers through service coordination efforts that is documented in the client record
• Complete daily progress notes, discharge reports, service authorization reports, incident reports and other case documentation according to agency procedures
• Ensure that service documentation is individualized based upon the needs and progress of the individual
• Submit all documentation by agency deadlines
• Attend weekly clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor (LMHP) at a time designated by the Supervisor
• Attend company meetings as scheduled
• Remain in compliance with agency policies and procedures
• Other duties as required