Minnesota Specialty Health System (MSHS) in Wadena is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join our team in providing rehabilitation and supportive residential services for individuals with serious mental illness and possible co-occurring disorders. As an Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS) facility, MSHS Wadena focuses on rehabilitative education, building interpersonal skills, and developing community engagement skills to increase each client’s independence and self-management of their illness, behavior, and emotion. Job Duties: • Assess client treatment needs, behaviors, and progress towards goals as a basis for developing or modifying treatment plans. • Guide program staff in the implementation of treatment plans and personal interactions with residents to develop and reinforce adaptive behaviors. • Conduct skill development activities to help individuals improve skills needed for discharge, such as cooking, personal hygiene, budgeting, and household organization. • Coordinate client reintegration and placement into the community to promote consumers' independence, autonomy, personal responsibility, and personal control. • Participate as a team member to coordinate and collaborate consistently with established team operations. • Serve as lead worker to ensure delivery of the medication program and other services during a designated shift.

To qualify, applicants must: • Possess and maintain a valid MN Driver's License and meet the requirements for a Mental Health Practitioner as defined in MN Statute 245I.04, subdivision 4; AND 2 years of combined experience in at least 4 of the 6 activities listed below: • Providing direct care and therapeutic support of individuals • Assisting with assessment of behavior health challenges including data collection • Experience leading and/or facilitating educational groups or therapeutic activities with individuals with mental health symptoms • Experience developing or implementing support plans or treatment plans that addresses behavior through adaptations, activities, interventions, education, engagement, and support • Assisting in planning and hand-off communication of support plans and strategies for supporting individuals upon discharge • Developing/assisting in development of behavioral interventions and recommendations for interdisciplinary staff implementation *1 year of relevant experience requirement may be substituted by a bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or behavior analysis; the experience requirement also may be substituted by a bachelor's degree in human services or a related behavioral health field that includes substantial behavioral health coursework such as: individual or group counseling, clinical interviewing, clinical assessment, crisis intervention, or similar behavioral health courses.

• Experience with treatment plans, assessments, and clinical documentation • Direct care experience within a mental health or behavioral health treatment setting

Available upon request.