Qualified Professional

Job Summary:

Ruth Family Services is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Qualified Professional (QP) to provide behavioral health service coordination, support, and oversight to individuals receiving mental health and community-based services. The QP plays a vital role in ensuring that clients receive person-centered, goal-oriented support that promotes emotional wellness, independence, and overall stability. The QP will work closely with individuals, families, CPSS staff, clinical providers, and community partners to assess needs, develop service strategies, monitor progress, and connect clients to essential resources. This role requires strong communication, organization, documentation, and problem-solving skills, as well as a solid understanding of behavioral health systems and Medicaid-compliant service delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Monitor service provision of CPSS. Provide education and training to & with each CPSS on your caseload related to crisis response, symptoms, behaviors, goals, intervention in the Person-Centered Plan. Assisting CPSS when needed to find resources, advising the peers of processes, and encouraging follow through with proposed resolutions, locating social activities, or providing other assistance as needed. Provide preventive and therapeutic interventions designed for direct peer activities. Assist with skill enhancement or acquisition and support ongoing treatment and functional gains. Therapeutic mentoring and Supportive counseling. Symptom monitoring and self-management of symptoms Inform the beneficiary about benefits, community resources and services. Being a back up for peer care when the CPSS absolutely can not be available. Assist with case management to arrange, link, or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and the reassessment of the beneficiary 's need for services are conducted within every 90 days to annually. Provide coordination of movement across levels of care, directly to the peer and natural support Coordinates discharge planning and completing discharge paperwork. Coordinates community re-entry following hospitalization, rehabilitation services, incarceration and other levels of care. First Responder crisis response on 24/7/365 basis when a peer is experiencing a crisis. Service coordination activities with other providers such as Schools, Psychiatric providers, Therapists, Vocational Rehabilitation Staff, medical, Department of Corrections, Primary Care Providers, Dentists, Optometrists etc. The QP is responsible for required documentation such as reviewing CPSS weekly notes, reviewing ongoing updates of PCP/crisis plan, facilitating team meetings with therapists, CPSS, and themselves or , conducting monthly supervision, and/ or as needed. Help with developing and updating the Person-Centered Plan (PCP) with the peers being served and their natural support. Provides and creates input into PCP modifications, as needed.

Pay:

$900.00 - $1,000.00 per week

Work Location:

In person