ACCEND SERVICES Children's Mental Health Practitioner Salary in the United States

Overview

The Children's Mental Health Practitioner's focus is to improve functioning for adults and children with mental illness or behavioral disorders by teaching skills to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills, when these abilities are impaired by the symptoms of mental illness.

Type Part-time & Full-time, not less than 0.6 FTE
Location Metro 
Pay Hourly, $16.25- $17.25

Responsibilities

The Children's Mental Health Practitioner works as part of an integrated treatment team, adhering to standards to serve adults and children diagnosed with mental illness by doing the following:

• Assessing functional strengths, resources needs
• Developing individualized, person-centered treatment/community support plans
• Implementing the interventions identified in the plan
• Referring persons served to other needed services, resources & supports coordinating and monitoring the quality these services
• Maintaining detailed records of all activities

Mental Health Practitioner Qualifications

*Experience with children is preferred for Children's Mental Health Practitioners.

Education + Experience Qualifications (Group home experience DOES qualify)

Education: Has completed at least 30 or 45 quarter hours in behavioral science or related fields.

Experience: At least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults or children with mental illness, substance use disorder, or emotional disturbance; or traumatic brain injury or developmental disabilities and completes training on mental illness recovery from mental illness, mental health de-escalation techniques, co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, and psychotropic medications and side effects.

Education Only Qualifications

Holds a master's degree or higher in the behavioral sciences or related fields;

or

holds a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences or related fields and completes a practicum or internship that (1) requires direct interaction with adults or children served, and (2) is focused on behavioral sciences or related fields.

Experience-Only Qualifications

Has at least 4,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults or children with mental illness, substance use disorder, or emotional disturbance; or traumatic brain injury or developmental disabilities and completes training on mental illness, recovery from mental illness, mental health de-escalation techniques, co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, and psychotropic medications and side effects.

Has at least 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults or children as described above, and receives clinical supervision as required by applicable statutes and rules at least once a week from a mental health professional until the requirement of 4,000 hours of supervised experience is met.

Graduate Internship Placement

Is a graduate student in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields and is formally assigned by an accredited college or university to an agency or facility for clinical training.

Alternatives for Persons Serving Non-English Speaking Populations

A Practitioner is fluent in the non-English language of the ethnic group to which at least 50 percent of the practitioner's clients belong, completes 40 hours of training in the delivery of services to adults with mental illness or children with emotional disturbance, and receives clinical supervision from a mental health professional at least once a week until the requirement of 2,000 hours of supervised experience is met.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Competitive compensation and progressive pay scales
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(K)
• PTO
• Flexible Scheduling Options
• Training & Career Development
• Mileage, and other expense reimbursements
• Employee Assistance Program