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QUALIFIED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL (QMHP)
Help adults living with serious mental illness build stability, skills, independence, and successful community connections.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The QMHP provides recovery-oriented clinical services, coordinates individualized care, supports the treatment team, and promotes trauma-informed, person-centered rehabilitation.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in clinical assessments, individualized treatment planning, progress reviews, and discharge preparation.
- Provide recovery-oriented individual and group interventions that build coping, symptom-management, interpersonal, and community-living skills.
- Monitor and document resident progress toward treatment and recovery goals.
- Provide clinical direction and supervision to assigned mental health and rehabilitation staff.
- Respond appropriately to behavioral-health concerns and psychiatric crises.
- Coordinate services with the interdisciplinary team, residents, families or representatives, and community providers.
- Protect resident rights and maintain timely, accurate, regulation-compliant clinical documentation.
QUALIFYING QMHP PATHWAYS
Applicants must qualify through at least one of the following:- Meet the requirements of an Illinois Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA).
- Registered Nurse with a current license and qualifying mental-health training, supervised clinical experience, or specialized training.
- Licensed Occupational Therapist with at least one year of clinical experience in a mental-health setting.
- Master's or doctoral degree in counseling and guidance, rehabilitation counseling, social work, psychology, pastoral counseling, family therapy, or a related field, plus:
- At least 1,000 hours of practicum or internship under clinical and educational supervision; or
- One year of documented clinical experience under the supervision of a QMHP.