Legal​/Mental Health Rehabilitation Specialist

Legal/ Mental Health Rehabilitation Specialist

The Legal/MH Rehabilitation Specialist provides case management and legal rehabilitative services for clients in the Outpatient Competency Restoration Program. This position's duties will include the following:

• Provide and coordinate Outpatient Competency Restoration Continuity of Care Services
• Perform assessment and treatment planning
• Plan and provide discharge planning and services
• Maintain continuous working contact with jail staff, court officials, bond supervisors, and supporting service staffs
• Assists in restoring individuals to legal competency through teaching basic legal terms, concepts and procedures
• In and out of region travel required

What's in it for you:

• Awesome Benefits for you and your family
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Company-paid Life and Disability insurance, HSA/FSA
  • Retirement Options with Company Match!
  • Mental health and wellness support from our Employee Assistance Program
• Financial Wellbeing
  • Say goodbye to those pesky loans- we're a Federal Student Loan Forgiveness qualified employer!
  • Weekly Pay deposited directly into your account (get paid every Friday!)
  • Mileage Reimbursement
• Work-Life Balance
  • 9 Paid Company Holidays PLUS 2 Personal Holidays (VIP Days)
  • Paid Time Off begins accruing on your first day (increasing with tenure!)
  • Casual Dress Code (Wear jeans every day!)
• Meaningful work in the mental health and intellectual disabilities community!
• Requires Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral Science Field.
• Must qualify as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) under Texas Administrative Code (TAC) credentialing requirement (Rule §353.1415)
  • Not sure if you qualify as a QMHP?
• Clear criminal record validated by a TDCJ NCIC check prior to beginning work and annually.
• Ability to pass computer literacy testing.
• Background Experience with the Criminal Justice System preferred.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English Fluency) paid at a higher rate.
• Applicants must have a valid driver's license and be insurable through Tri-County.

Effective January 1, 2017, all Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare campuses are smoke free.

NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES

Tri-County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all Federal and State laws pertaining to employment. Tri-County is committed to Affiate Effort Plan.

The Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 533.007, allows Tri-County to check conviction records on applicants. Tri-County completes background checks in accordance with Texas State Health and Safety Code, Chapters 250-253:
Criminal history check through the Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS), Employee Misconduct Registry (EMR), Nurse Aide Registry and for Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Tri-County will check the CARE System to determine if an applicant has a confirmed allegation of abuse, neglect or exploitation and will not hire any individual with a confirmed allegation.

The Texas Administrative Code, Title 25, Chapter 414, Subsection K, has established the following list of offenses that are an absolute bar to employment: criminal homicide, kidnapping and unlawful restraint, indecency with a child, continued sexual abuse of young child or children, sexual assault, aggravated assault, injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual, abandoning or endangering a child, aiding suicide, agreement to abduct from custody, sale or purchase of a child, arson;

robbery, aggravated robbery, conviction under the laws of another state, federal law, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice for an offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense listed above, felony conviction for theft which occurred in the previous five (5) years, indecent exposure, improper relationship between educator and student, improper photography or visual reporting, deadly conduct, aggravated sexual assault, terroristic threat;

online solicitation of a minor, money laundering, Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud, cruelty to animals, false identification as a peace officer, disorderly conduct, and discharges of a firearm in a public place other than a public road or a sport shooting range, as defined by Section 250.001, Local Government Code. Offenses that are not an absolute bar to employment but may be considered a contraindication will also be considered during the pre-employment process.

Tri-County will also complete a driver's license check. All applicants, employees, contractors and volunteers will be checked prior to hire and monthly through the Texas…