Behavioral Health Specialist 2 - Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP)

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Behavioral Health Specialist 2 - Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP)

GRANTS PASS, OREGON - ROGUE VALLEY YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

Are you a passionate and dedicated mental health professional? Join our Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP)!

The Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) is currently seeking a permanent, full-time Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) to provide mental and behavioral health treatment and service. You will join a team of professionals to develop and maintain the treatment milieu for the assigned living unit(s) and support and maintain a dynamic environment that moves youth through a developmental and reformative process that promotes the acceptance of responsibility, healthy habits, productive lifestyle, and socially acceptable conduct. In cooperation with the Living Unit Manager (LUM), the Skills Development Coordinator, and unit Case Coordinator (CC), the QMHP provides leadership to their assigned living unit and across facility units for implementing and sustaining evidence-based intervention in a group living environment.

Your Role:

• Develop and monitor unit treatment schedules to ensure that youth are receiving the services identified on their case plan.

• Participate in community groups, one on one meetings, and other activities to model appropriate relationships and to allow for youth and staff to have meaningful participation in the program.

• Monitor behavioral and mental health case plan domains, long and short-term goals, determining appropriate clinical and youth development interventions, etc.

• Perform professional casework in counseling and guidance of youth.

• Develop unit guidelines and protocols to inform the living unit on best practice approaches in dealing with trauma-based reactions.

• Provide clinical consultation, technical expertise, advice, and training for staff on appropriate ways to attend to youth who present with mental and behavioral health needs.

• Work with the MDT to develop and oversee the living unit behavior management system including any point/level or grading and tag system, tag or level reviews and ensures that it is in alignment with best practices, is strengths based, and is developmental in design.

• Leads the MDT in the development of special programs, youth incentive or restrictive programming and ensures programs are balanced with appropriate treatment and skill building opportunities, restrictions, and are developmental in their approach.

• Conduct treatment (groups or individual sessions) with youth dealing with specific mental/behavioral health programming needs and or on elevated suicide precaution programs aimed at crisis prevention and youth wellness.

• Conduct family therapy as indicated and as youth families are available.

• Engages in clinical consultations with treatment service supervisor, the consulting psychologist/psychiatrist/PMHNP to review youth progress, therapy, and paperwork.

• Monitors, assesses, and provides intervention for suicide risk with youth.

• Staff youth with other facility QMHPs and Program Director during weekly meetings

• Provide crisis assessments and assess youth suicide risks

Would you like to learn more about this position or how our application process works? Join our Recruitment team during our OYA Career Chat Sessions every other Wednesday from 11:00am-11:30am. We can assist you with all your application and agency questions!

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Additional Information:

• Open Until Filled: This recruitment will remain open until filled but we may close the announcement at any time when we have received an adequate number of applications. We cannot guarantee that we will consider applications received after this screening date. We encourage interested applicants not to delay applying.

• We may use this recruitment to fill future vacancies.

• Comprehensive and equitable base salary offer within the listed range based on your experience, skills and education. For more information on pay equity, click here.

• The salary range listed is the non-PERS participating rate. If you are already a participating PERS member or once you become PERS eligible, the salary range will increase by 6%. Please review the Classification and Compensation page for more details.

• This position receives annual increases on anniversary date until the maximum of the salary range is reached.

• Please save a copy of this job announcement for your reference, as it may not be available for you to view after the job closes.

NOTE: Please ensure you've provided a thorough and updated application as it pertains to the position for which you are applying. Your application materials will be used to determine salary based on a pay equity assessment. For further information, please visit the Pay Equity Project homepage.

Working Conditions: Must be able to work under the following conditions with or without reasonable accommodation:

• All OYA locations are tobacco-free environments.

• Counseling and casework management is performed in a group living milieu. This may involve the treatment of emotionally unstable clientele, and the danger of physical assault is present.

• Daily face to face contact with adjudicated youth and youth from the Department of Corrections who may exhibit hostile, aggressive or assaultive behavior. This position is expected to enforce rules and to restrain youth during crisis situations.

• May be subject to a hostage situation.

• Employees are subject to recall during facility emergencies.

• May deal with angry and hostile family members and visitors.

• Weekend, holiday, or evening work may be required.

• Stand-by, or on-call duty may be required.

• Travel to other OYA locations or to training throughout the state may be required.

• There is potential exposure to communicable diseases. The consistent and effective use of appropriate infection-control materials and techniques is required.

ABOUT OYA

At OYA, diversity, equity, and inclusion are more than just words on a page.To meet our mission and live our values as an agency, DEI must be at the heart of all we do. We support cultural competence, develop teams and cultivate leaders in ways that are equitable to everyone, especially people of color, those who identify as LGBTQ+, or those from other marginalized communities. We are explicit and intentional as we identify resources that all our youth and staff need to grow and prosper. Our DEI work connects closely with our culture of positive human development, with safe and supportive environments where everyone is held accountable and connected to their community. The end goal is to protect the public and reduce crime by holding youth accountable and providing opportunities for reformation in safe environments.

If you are looking to join a team that values individual and cultural differences, with the opportunity to contribute to youth reformation by enriching our workforce with diversity, OYA wants to hear from you! People of color, women, and other members of historically marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply!

For more information please visitwww.oregon.gov/oya.

What's in it for You?

OYA values our employees. We believe that your time outside of the workplace is as valuable as it is inside the workplace. We offer a great work/life balance with flexible work schedules on most positions and a competitive benefits package, including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and a competitive retirement plan.

Discover moreabout working in Oregon state government byclicking here.

This position is represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU/OPEU). By joining and maintaining your membership with SEIU Local 503, the following benefits are available to you such as:

• $2,500 life insurance policypaid for by your union, SEIU Local 503. This policy is in effect if you are an active member.

• Up to $200,000 of additional life insurancecan be purchased. Up to $100,000 member life, $40,000 spouse and $10,000 child is guaranteed within the first 90 days of new union membership.

• Short Term Disability insuranceis guaranteed if purchased within the first 90 days of new union membership.

• Legal insuranceenrollment is available to purchase within the first 90 days of new union membership.

• Tuition reimbursement.

For more information on SEIU, please click here.

What We Are Looking For:

• A Bachelor's degree in nursing or occupational therapy AND licensed by the State of Oregon AND three years of progressively responsible experience related to the series concept; OR

• A Master's degree in psychology; social work; recreational, art, or music therapy; or behavioral health science AND two years of progressively responsible experience related to the series concept.

Special Qualifications:

A Qualified Mental Health Professional at the time of application.

NOTE:To be qualified as a Qualified Mental Health Professional you must have:
* Graduate degree in psychology; or
* Bachelor's degree in nursing and be licensed by the State of Oregon; or
* Graduate degree in social work; or
* Graduate degree in a behavioral science field; or
* Graduate degree in recreational, art, or music therapy; or
* Bachelor's degree in occupational therapy and be licensed by the State of Oregon:

AND

Education and experience which demonstrates the competencies to identify precipitating events; gather histories of mental and physical disabilities, alcohol and drug use, past mental health services and criminal justice contacts; assess family, social and work relationships; conduct a mental status examination; document a multiaxial DSM diagnosis; write and supervise a treatment plan, conduct comprehensive mental health assessment; and provide individual, family, and/or group therapy within the scope of practice.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES/APPLICATION SCORING CRITERIA:If you have these qualities, let us know! It's how we will choose whom to move forward!

Note: You do not need to have all of these qualities to be eligible for this position.

• Preference given to those candidates that have received licensure in their discipline.

• Certificates and/or work experience related to substance use treatment.

• Certificates and/or work experience related to adolescent mental health treatment (group and individual therapy).

• Strong clinical skills with adolescents and young adults, with the ability to provide clinical work independently.

• Experience providing treatment in gang affiliation, anger management, fire setting, and violent offending.

How to apply:

1. Complete the application or upload a completed resume.

2. Complete questionnaire.

3. After you submit your application, be sure to respond to the public records request authorization. This screen will come after you submit and will complete the process. If you are an employee, the public records request task will come to your Workday inbox.

4. If you are a veteran, the task to claim preference will come after the public records request question. Please do not attach your DD214/DD215/civil service preference letter to your application. We will ask you for your documents later in the process.

Additional Information:

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we are here to serve. OYA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be individualized based on merit, competence, performance, and business need.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. The more diverse we are, the better our work will be.

Applicants with a disability may request reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process. For assistance regarding reasonable accommodation or for alternative format please contact OYA Recruitment at 971-345-1236. Oregon Relay Service can be reached by calling 7-1-1.

Pre-employment Checks:

In keeping with our mission, OYA will conduct a criminal record check, per OAR 416 Division 800, a driving record background check and a vulnerable population abuse and neglect check. Information obtained about an individual is confidential. An individual who refuses to consent to a criminal records/background check shall be disqualified from consideration in the position for which you applied. All applicants are subject to additional pre-employment check(s) such as fingerprint based on criminal records check, pre-employment drug screening and/or education verification as required for the position.

In 2003 Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the first federal civil statue focused specifically on addressing sexual violence in juvenile facilities, jails, prisons, and other facilities. In recognition of the rights, safety, and well-being of the youth we serve you will be asked specific questions about your background to ensure our hiring and promotion practices comply with the National PREA standards.

All positions in OYA will require the incumbent to serve as a "mandatory reporter" of child abuse.

Visa Sponsorship:

We do not offer Visa sponsorship. If you are hired, you will be required to fill out the US Department of Homeland Security's I-9 form confirming you are able to work in the US. OYAuses E-Verify to confirm that applicants are authorized to work in the United States.

Have Questions?:

For questions about the job announcement, email OYAJobs@oya.oregon.gov.