Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker ---Overnights **$1000 SIGN ON BONUS**

Position Description

Purpose Statement:
Northstar Behavioral Health Intensive Residential Services IRTS is a team of professionals that specialize in co-occurring treatment through a multi-faceted programming structure for those battling mental health and substance use disorders.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: (Essential Functions)
Supervise residents to assure their health and safety; plus:

• Respond immediately to emergency situations following established policies and procedures.
• Facilitate one to one and group interventions and educational lessons using Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) or Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)materials or materials provided by the MH Professional.
• Consult with the mental health professional on any psychiatric emergency, and follow directions as given.
• Provide a supportive, recovery model and strengths based perspective with all residents • Complete all client skill building and mental health interventions as assigned by the mental health professional
• Closely monitor activities throughout the facility
• Conduct hourly room checks throughout the facility.
• Regularly conduct fire drills, severe weather drills.
• Maintain safe access to medications for residents
• Follow instruction and direction from lead staff.

Required Skills and Experience (Minimum requirements in terms of educational background, work experience, licenses/certifications or other knowledge skills and abilities).

• Must pass required Applicant Background check
• Be 21 years of age or older
• Meets the standards for Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker per DHS guidelines as listed below.

Mental Health Rehabilitation Workers must meet the following 4 requirements:

Have a high school diploma or equivalent.

Must successfully complete 30 hours of training during the two years prior to hiring in each of the following areas:

• Recipient rights
• Recipient-centered individual treatment planning
• Behavioral terminology
• Mental illness
• Co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
• Psychotropic medications and side effects
• Functional assessment
• Local community resources
• Adult vulnerability
• Recipient confidentiality

Meets one of the qualifications in A. or B.

A. Have associate of arts degree in one of the behavioral sciences or is a registered nurse without a bachelor’s degree, or within the previous 10 years has :

• Three years personal life experience with serious and persistent mental illness.
• Three years personal life experience as primary caregiver to an adult with a serious mental illness or brain injury.
• 4000 hours supervised paid work experience in the delivery of mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness or brain injury.
  
  

B. Is fluent in non-English language or competent in culture of ethnic group to which at least 20 percent of rehab worker’s recipients belong, and

• receives monthly documented individual clinical supervision during the first 2000 hours employment.
  
  
• has 18 hours of documented field supervision by a mental health professional or practitioner during the first 160 hours of contact work with recipients and at least 6 hours of field supervision quarterly during the following year.
• has review and co-signature of charting of recipient contacts during field supervision by a mental health professional or practitioner, and
• has 15 hours of additional continuing education on mental health topics during the first year of employment and 15 hours during every additional year of employment.