Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker

$500 Sign-On Bonus

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The People:
We have built amazing teams of healthcare workers who are compassionate, out-of-the-box thinkers, who come to work everyday to knowing that their job will throw them in a few different directions and they like that! We employ people who genuinely like other people, and who embrace differences. You will soon find yourself immersed in a strong team atmosphere where support is in abundance.

Responsibilities:

A Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker provides direct care services to the clients including assisting in maintaining a clean, safe living environment, meal preparation and supervising, training and assisting the clients in every aspect of their life.

• To provide an atmosphere that will stimulate clients’ development of self-confidence and self-worth.
• Maintain a clean, safe and well maintained environment in client living and staff areas.
• Oversee client domestic responsibilities, educating and assisting them as needed to promote self-worth.
• Verbally communicate with clients in a supportive and positive fashion throughout daily interactions.
• To supervise and be actively involved with clients at all appropriate times, stimulating positive social interaction.
• Be available to clients at all times doing at least quarter hour checks.
• Act as an appropriate role model for clients.
• Plan and be actively involved in all recreational and programmatic aspects of scheduled shift.
• Provide appropriate supervision, assistance and training in meeting clients’ physical and emotional needs such as nutrition, grooming, socialization, family involvement, etc.
• To provide supervision, assistance, and training to clients in meeting their medical and health care needs.
• Supervise administration of medications according to healthcare providers’ prescriptions and policies of the organizations.
• Assist in making and keeping healthcare provider, psychological, and dental appointments.
• Document all medical concerns, appointments, medical administrations, destruction, etc.
• To provide education and assistance to clients in managing their personal funds.
• Assist clients in filling out any needed forms for application M.A., S.S.I., G.A. or requested assistance forms.
• Assist clients in budgeting personal funds to meet personal needs on a monthly/weekly basis.
• Assist clients in developing a plan to pay or defer any previous bills presently being billed for.

Qualifications: (a) A mental health rehabilitation worker must:

(1) have a high school diploma or equivalent;

(2) have the training required under section 245I.05, subdivision 3, paragraph (c); and

(3) meet one of the following qualification requirements:

(i) be fluent in the non-English language or competent in the culture of the ethnic group to which at least 20 percent of the mental health rehabilitation worker's clients belong;

(ii) have an associate of arts degree;

(iii) have two years of full-time postsecondary education or a total of 15 semester hours or 23 quarter hours in behavioral sciences or related fields;

(iv) be a registered nurse;

(v) have, within the previous ten years, three years of personal life experience with mental illness;

(vi) have, within the previous ten years, three years of life experience as a primary caregiver to an adult with a mental illness, traumatic brain injury, substance use disorder, or developmental disability; or

(vii) have, within the previous ten years, 2,000 hours of work experience providing health and human services to individuals.

(b) A mental health rehabilitation worker who is exclusively scheduled as an overnight staff person is exempt from the additional qualification requirements in paragraph (a), clause (3).