Mental Health Clinician Licensed or Pre-Licensed, Vietnamese-Speaking

Are you a person who enjoys helping others? Are you currently seeking fulfillment in your professional life?

Hope Services is Silicon Valley’s leading provider of services to people with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. We seek candidates who share our inspirations & aspirations. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging at all levels..

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We are currently seeking Vietnamese-speaking Licensed or

Pre-Licensed Mental Health Clinicians for our world-class Mental Health Services program!

*Salary Range: $5,815.42 - $10,762.50/month commensurate with experience and qualifications

Hope Services offers an OUTSTANDING benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Retirement, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement and a comprehensive Scholarship Program, Generous Paid Vacation and Sick Time accrual plans and more!

About the Mental Health Clinician role:

Mental Health Clinician - Purpose

Under clinical supervision, the Mental Health Clinician provides assessment and diagnosis to clients with dual diagnosis, provides individual, group and family psychotherapy, prepares individual service and coordination plans, documents clinical outcomes and acts as an advocate.

Mental Health Clinician - Principal Responsibilities

The following responsibilities represent the essential functions of the position.  An employee in this classification is responsible for carrying the following functions:

1.  Provides individual, group and family therapy to persons with a

developmental disability who are diagnosed with severe mental

 illness.

2. Utilize professional education and training to diagnose and treat

  the clients’ mental illnesses.

3. Provide psychotherapy to empower clients to identify and

 manager their psychiatric symptoms to enable them to be

  maximally functional in the larger community.

4. Constantly assess clients for potential harm to self, harm to

  others, or potential victimization and take appropriate measures

  to maintain safety.  This includes, initiate involuntary

  hospitalizations when necessary to maintain safety.

5. Provide 24-hour on-call crisis intervention.

6. Use professional training and credential to advocate for clients

  with other agencies, educate other agencies to recognize and

  deal with the needs of clients who have a developmental

  disability and are diagnosed with a mental illness.

7. Develop relapse prevention strategies with clients and their

  support systems to prevent future psychiatric hospitalizations

  and loss of community placements.

8. Participate as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team  

 designed to maximally meet the psychiatric and psychological

  needs of clients.

9. Regularly attend training to update and keep current skills and

  maintain license.

10. Maintain appropriate treatment records and documentation as

  required.

11. Other duties as assigned to assure efficiency of the program.

Mental Health Clinician - Minimum Qualifications

The Mental Health Clinician should be enrolled in a Masters or Doctoral degree program (MSW, MFT, PhD) that is eligible for licensure to provide psychotherapy by the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners, or the Board of Psychology.

Qualifications of the Licensed Mental Health Clinician:

The Licensed Mental Health Clinician should possess current licensure current as a LCSW, LMFT, or Clinical Psychologist and experience working with persons with developmental disabilities. All licensed clinicians, upon hire or upon obtaining licensure, are required to be Medicare credentialed by submitting a Medicare enrollment application. 

Mental Health Clinician - Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

1. Basic computer skills in work processing and spreadsheet

  application.

2. Ability to observe, evaluate, document and communicate

  verbally and in writing.

3. Ability to accept supervision and work cooperatively as a team  

 member with co-workers as well as with the client and

  community resources.

4. Knowledge of disabilities and the biological, psychological and

  social models.

5. Ability to utilize critical thinking skills in decision making

  situations, good organizational and record keeping skills, and

  good independent judgment.

6. Knowledge of psychotherapy.

7. Knowledge and understanding of multidisciplinary team and

  family dynamics.

8. Ability to be flexible with scheduling and prioritization of tasks.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Primarily works in an office environment. Long periods of sitting. Some use of computer for record keeping, periods of intense concentration. Some travel to satellite locations, exposure to outdoor conditions.

Do you have what it takes to make a difference? Inspire and be inspired! Hope Services takes immense pride in maximizing our employee engagement. Will you join us??

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Hope Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees not regardless of, but with consideration and appreciation for race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family or parental status, or any other status.