Horizon House, Inc. is a nationally recognized provider of services to adults with support needs due to developmental disabilities, behavioral health issues, and substance abuse. Horizon House is Pennsylvania’s oldest psychiatric rehabilitation agency. Since 1952, we have been dedicated to helping people with mental illness, drug and alcohol addictions, developmental/intellectual disabilities, and homelessness to stabilize their lives and to help them live as independently as possible in the community. With over 100 locations throughout South and North Eastern Pennsylvania and the state of Delaware, Horizon House provides services to a diverse population focusing on individual strength and choice.

We are seeking a full time Mental Health Specialist to provide service coordination case management for an assigned group of participants including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team.

Responsibilities to help participants accomplish this goal include the following:

• In the delivery of treatment, rehabilitation and support services, the Mental Health Professional provides clinical supervision in assessment and treatment planning, and provides support and back-up to the Team Leader.
• Provide individual supportive therapy (e.g., problem solving, role-playing, modeling and support), social skill development, and assertiveness training to increase participants’ social and interpersonal activities in community settings.
• Provide service coordination (case management for an assigned group of participants including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team; assume responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall treatment goals and plans in collaboration with the participant and the ITT; provide individual supportive therapy, psychotherapy, and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as participants’ needs change; educate and support participants’ families, and advocate for participants’ rights and preferences.
• Conduct comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g. onset, course an effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment, social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g., care-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.
• Provide individual supportive therapy (e.g., problem solving, role-playing, modeling and support), social skill development, and assertiveness training to increase participants’ social and interpersonal activities in community settings.
• Perform shift management in coordination with other ACT shift managers according to established policies and procedures.

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