CCBHC Community Support Team (CST) Mental Health Professional

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Requires mobility and willingness to work with a community-based caseload.
• Ability to maintain assigned community and home-based services.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups.
• Must work some evenings and weekends and possible on-call.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a human services field or a bachelor’s degree in any field with two years of documented clinical experience in a mental health setting, required.
• Must obtain and maintain IM+CANS certification, required.
• Master's Degree in Social Work or Counseling from an accredited college or university. Must have applied to take LSW or LPC examination, preferred.
• Prior experience with Rule 132/140 or CST/ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) models strongly, preferred.
• Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) or experience working with clients experiencing substance use, preferred.

Additional requirements

• Satisfactorily pass all relevant screening and criminal background checks.

• Physical demands
• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch. The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal.

Metropolitan Family Services puts our people first with a top-of-the-line benefits package. Find out more by clicking here [https://www.metrofamily.org/careers/benefits/]!

Some highlights include

• Medical Coverage, Dental Coverage, and Vision Coverage.
• Metropolitan Family Services contributions of $2,000 to individual, and $4,000 to family, HSA accounts, pro-rated to your benefits start date.
• FREE General Medicine and Behavioral Health Teladoc services provided to all team members.
• Ascensus 401K plan services with a 4% employer match, vested at 100% on day one of eligibility.

• And so much more! Make sure you click here [https://www.metrofamily.org/careers/benefits/] to see the full suite of benefits offered!
• Some of the above benefits are available for part-time and temporary workers, but not all. Be sure to inquire upon your hire as to which benefits apply to you.

More about us

Metropolitan is Illinois' first comprehensive human services agency and reaches more than 122,970 individuals and families in Chicago, Evanston/Skokie, the southwest suburbs, and DuPage County with services promoting education, economic stability, emotional wellness, and empowerment.

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