QMHP Juvenille TCOOMMI

Are you looking for a purpose-driven career? At Metrocare, we serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying.

Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, accessible pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services.

Alongside clinical care, researchers and teachers from Metrocare’s Altshuler Center for Education & Research are advancing mental health beyond Dallas County while providing critical workforce to the state.

The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to quality gender-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families and adults we serve.

The Juvenile TCOOMMI QMHP position provides psychosocial/rehabilitative service to juveniles referred from the Dallas county Juvenile Probation Department. Services may include, but are not limited to, assessment, development of measurable treatment goals and objectives, engagement into treatment, referral, linkage, advocacy, monitoring, crisis intervention and continuity of care. The overall goal of this position is to maximize the individuals potential level of functioning, reduce hospitalization or out home placements and aid in the successful reintegration of individuals into the community.

The essential functions listed here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the job.

Conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the ethical standards of conduct, state contract, appropriate professional standards and applicable state/federal laws

Analytical skills, professional acumen, business ethics, thorough understanding of continuous improvement processes, problem solving, respect for confidentiality, and excellent communication skills.

Provide overall service coordination, psychosocial rehabilitation, emergency services/ assessment, referral, transportation, linkage, and advocacy to juveniles and their families with varying needs. Perform duties in concert with other members of an interdisciplinary treatment team.

Ensure authorization for clinical services.

Ensure TCOOMMI Program Guidelines are being met.

Formulate individual recovery plan based on assessment findings on all new admissions.

Develop measureable objectives and goals agreed upon by the individual.

• Actively assists in obtaining and modifying goals as needed.
• Document all attempts to involve individual, service providers, and caregivers (unless opposed by the individual) in service plan process.

Review service plans every 90 days or as clinically

Participate in interdisciplinary team staffing. Present psychosocial assessment findings. Update team on progress or lack of progress in reaching agreed upon goals. Provide relevant information that might affect course of treatment.

Follow-up with assigned individuals who miss a scheduled appointment. Documents attempts to contact individual. Report repeated unsuccessful efforts to contact the treatment team.

Oversees and assists assigned individuals medication adherence.…