What are the responsibilities and job description for the MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL position at GEO Secured Services?
**Salary offered is based on licensure and experience**
Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package with options for you and your family including
* Paid Time Off | * Paid Holidays |
* 401(k) Matching | * Health Insurance |
* Vision Insurance | * Life Insurance |
* Health Savings Account | * Tuition Reimbursement |
* Employee Discount | * Reduced Tuition Rates |
* Disability Insurance | * Employee Assistance Program |
* 401(k) | * Pet Insurance |
* Dental Insurance | * Paid Training |
* Flexible Spending Account |
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The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Overview
Are you looking to join a company where you can make a real difference? If you are passionate about people and believe that everyone deserves the highest quality of mental healthcare, we have the role for you! You will be responsible for providing a full range of mental health outpatient services such as initial assessment, treatment planning, supportive counseling, case management, aftercare planning, group psychotherapy, suicide risk assessment, and crisis intervention. Keep reading to get to know us and learn what we have to offer.
Join A Community That Cares
Joining GEO means contributing to our mission to provide the best rehabilitation and community reintegration programs and services to those in our care. GEO is a place for professional growth, exploration, creativity, and valuable interpersonal relationships. Interested in achieving extraordinary things? Send in your application. Every one of our employees makes us who we are.
We're looking for individuals from different backgrounds
Building an inclusive culture where every employee can perform to their maximum potential is the center of GEO's employee value proposition. Our success is based on diversity in our workforce and the inclusion of eclectic perspectives, ideas, and backgrounds. Everyone is encouraged to apply. Here's to unlimited ideas, increased productivity, and innovative solutions!
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Conduct mental health interviews, screenings, and evaluations to determine appropriate mental health services and treatment plans to address specific mental health needs.
- Provide supportive mental health services: brief individual counseling, group counseling (process or psycho-educational), and specialty group counseling (anger management, coping skills, end of sentence, life term, etc.).
- Provide case management services to ensure continuity of ongoing service delivery.
- Prepare all related mental health documentation following applicable organizational and state standards in a clear, thorough, and timely manner.
- Consult with Security, Medical, Classification and other departments as needed.
- Respond to psychological emergencies and provide crisis intervention (involuntary hospitalization, placement under observation due to suicide risk, or inability to adjust within general population due to symptoms of mental illness).
- Conduct post-release planning and communicate with community based mental health facilities for referral and continuity of care.
Qualifications
Review minimum requirements before applying:
Please note licensed interns may be considered based on our client's requirements. To be considered, you must have a clinical supervisor who has been approved by the state board.
Ideally, you should have experience providing mental health services in an institutional setting for at least one year.
Minimum Requirements
- Master's degree as a Mental Health Clinician who has full licensure, provisional licensure, or registered intern status as a mental health provider under Chapter 491 (Florida Statutes).
- State licensure as a Clinical Social Worker or Mental Health Counselor (if claiming license eligibility, applicant must be able to provide proper documentation). Licensed interns may be considered based on client requirements.
- One (1) year experience providing mental health services in an institutional setting is preferred.
- Ability to work in crisis situations in a professional and mature manner.
- Strong counseling and motivational skills.
- Must be able to work individual and in a team environment.
- Above average verbal and writing skills.
- Must be able to develop clear and concise reports in a timely manner.
- Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.
Physical Requirements
In this position, you will frequently divide your time between sitting and walking. Candidates should also be able to occasionally: lift, carry, push, or pull up to 40 lbs.; stand, bend, stoop, and reach above shoulder level.
GEO Secured Services
The GEO Group is an equal opportunity employer. Geo will recruit, hire, train, promote, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, and disability, or other category protected by law, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. As a federal government contractor, it is GEO's policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment minorities, females, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. GEO will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.
