Mental Health Specialist II

JOB SUMMARY:

Under general supervision, provide behavioral health rehabilitation and case management services to clients. Services to be provided include individual/group rehabilitation, child/parent support groups, case management, wellness outreach/consultation, and system navigation. This position reports to the SMH Clinical Manager.

• 1. Provide rehabilitation, case management services, and support; interview clients and family members; conduct initial and ongoing strength-based assessments.
• 2. Develop initial and ongoing treatment plans on assigned clients; identify and pursue necessary resources to implement treatment plans.
• 3. Conduct individual, group, and family rehabilitation services; provide education on behavioral health care symptoms and the role of medication in alleviating such symptoms; assist in reducing symptoms caused by mental health disorders.
• 4. Prepare and maintain psychosocial case histories for use in diagnostic evaluations and clinical monitoring of client progress.
• 5. Notify clients and families of community resources and make referrals as necessary to meet basic needs such as housing, medical, financial care, and employment.
• 6. Participate in clinical case presentations and peer reviews.
• 7. Achieve and maintain clinic performance standards established for percent of time devoted to direct claimable services.
• 8. Provide services in school, home, clinic, and field settings, often independently.
• 9. Collaborate with schools, county departments, community agencies, and primary care clinics to coordinate referrals and ensure continuity of care for clients.
• 10. Participate in weekly individual supervision meetings as assigned.
• 11. Participate in staff meetings, training, peer review meetings, and consultations as assigned.
• 12. Maintain timely and accurate service contacts per appropriate standards and regulations.

• Fosters an environment that promotes trust and cooperation among clients and staff.
• 2. Enforces clinic policies and procedures, including maintenance of client confidentiality under HIPAA privacy rules, to ensure that the principles of AHS are implemented.
• 3. Plays an active role in planning organization-wide activities such as AHS general membership meetings, fundraisers, special clinic days, and other events.
• 4. Participates in general membership meetings, fundraisers, and other public events, as required.
• 5. Participates in outreach activities, agency advocacy, and serves on ad hoc committees, as requested.
• 6. Attends AHS staff retreats and Board of Directors meetings, as required.
• Participates in agency-wide quality improvement program processes and performance improvement teams to ensure excellence in the quality of services provided across the agency.

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology or other humanities-related fields from an accredited college or university plus 2 years of work experience in the human services field

• Commitment to working in the Asian community, to community health care with familiarity with community health clinics preferred
• Bilingual/bicultural in an Asian language

• Knowledge of current theories, practices, and principles and practices for services to clients with serious behavioral health care symptoms and diagnosis; psychological diagnostic methods and terminology; and cultural and social factors affecting behavioral patterns.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in providing individual, group counseling, and clinical case management in API communities.
• Knowledge of cultural issues, community resources, and family dynamics.
• Knowledge of Medi-Cal documentation standards

• The physical demands described here 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 the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to lift to 15 pounds with assistance.
• The job requires mobility to work in a clinical setting and to travel to the AMSHO sites as necessary; strength to lift, carry and position supplies and equipment; touch to conduct physical health assessments; vision to read handwritten and printed materials and examine and observe patients; hearing and speech to converse in person and by telephone. The job is performed in a moderate-to-loud work environment.