Relief Mental Health Counselor II

Program/Dept: MHRCReports to: Program DirectorClassification: Relief/ Oncall, Nonexempt

(5% differential pay if applicable to shift)

About Us: Caminar is a leading behavioral health organization that supported over 48,000 youth and adults across six counties in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area last year. ​
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Caminar's mission is to build strength and stability through comprehensive mental health and substance use treatment and wrap-around services delivered through evidence-based, whole-person care. The organization was founded in 1964, and our vision is to be a BEACON of SAFETY, COMPASSION, and FULFILLMENT, supporting all those in our communities who need it most. ​

Position Description: Under supervision of the Program Director, the Relief Mental Health Counselor 2 provides support and assistance to clients by encouraging them to participate in activities planned to meet their individual assessed needs, stimulate and support physical and mental capabilities to the fullest extent, and enable clients to maintain the highest attainable social, physical and mental functioning.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a respectful, caring, tolerant, ethical, and empowering relationship with all individuals served.
• Establish and maintain clear and effective communications with clients, ensure that their needs are met, assist them in the
  implementation of their treatment plans, and prepare them for the next level of care or other discharge options.
• Participate in client intake and discharge processes.
• Obtain initial client inventory list and maintain client inventory list through clients’ duration in the program.
• Document clients' progress in program charts daily.
• Assist program management in ensuring compliance with all agency policies and procedures, contractual agreements, licensing and certification requirements, and local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
• Provide accurate, timely, and complete transfer of program and client information to other staff as they begin their shift.
• Provide crisis intervention and including physically restrain clients, as necessary.
• Provide one-to-one services as necessary.
• Remain alert, perform job functions, and complete task lists.
• Orient new clients to the program, or, when possible, enable other clients to orient new clients.
• In conjunction with all other program staff members, actively participate in the effort to ensure that the facility environment is homelike, clean, safe, attractive, and comfortable at all times.
• Notify program management of all needs for repair or maintenance of the facility or program vehicles, involving clients when appropriate.
• Assist program management to create and maintain a safe and professional working environment free of hostility, harassment, and discrimination.
• Ensure safety of the facility perimeter and client safety at all times, reporting any unusual occurrence involving a client to licensed nursing staff or management immediately.
• Facilitate and lead structured program groups, indoor and outdoor activities, creative and educational activities, client government and exercise activities on a daily basis.
• Participate in staff meetings and attend other meetings, as assigned.
• Attend and participate in regularly scheduled supervision sessions.
• Attend training events and complete online training modules as assigned, completing a minimum of fifty-two (52) hours of in-service training annually.
• Motivate clients to complete their activities of daily living, attend groups and social activities, and take their medications as prescribed.
• Assist with scheduling client appointments.
• Assist clients with room maintenance, laundry, meal planning and preparation, shopping, and cooking.
• Monitor and report on clients’ whereabouts and status when in their room or elsewhere in the facility.
• Participate in promoting a safe, healthy, and clean working environment at all times consistent with applicable laws, industry standards and the agency’s own Health & Safety Program.
• Answer the main facility phone and log phone calls.
• Obtain visitor information and monitor visitors while onsite.
• Assist with maintaining facility cleanliness such as but not limited to cleaning bathrooms, taking out garbage, and cleaning the kitchen.
• Maintain food safety protocols.
• Complete and submit accurate time sheets and absence reports to program management in a timely manner.
• Assist with determining if clients meet eligibility requirements to attend a group outing.
• Promote within the agency and with the public the philosophy and practice of social rehabilitation.
• Drive agency vehicle to transport clients and on various activities as required, such as but not limited to client outings and clinic visits; documenting and reporting mileage according to agency procedures, so that services can be provided in a timely manner; comply with agency vehicle policy at all times;
• Actively nurture and advance the cooperative, harmonious, and teamwork-oriented environment Caminar strives to promote within the workplace; Through daily efforts and presentation promote an atmosphere of dignity and respect in line with the organization’s mission, philosophy, policies and procedures.
• Perform other related duties, responsibilities and special projects as assigned.