Greater Lakes Mental Health is a key component of MultiCares Behavioral Health Network, providing mental health and substance use disorder treatment for over 10,000 individuals annually across Pierce County. Providing services for adults, children, and families with Medicaid coverage, Greater Lakes offers 6 convenient mental health care locations including a 16-bed inpatient facility covering medically necessary voluntary and involuntary services to adults. Our experienced teams, veteran nurses, and robust training plans are designed to support your success and growth in facilitating recovery-oriented and trauma-informed treatment.
FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Day
Position Summary
The Mental Health Advocate provides supportive counseling and case management services to adult behavioral health clients under the direction of a licensed professional. Supportive counseling may include symptom management and skills training using behavioral principles and a structured session approach. Case management includes care coordination, resource identification and development, advocacy, service monitoring and follow-up, collateral supports.
Responsibilities:
Serves as a consumer advocate in relation to the mental health system, community agencies, and the consumers support system, as needed.
Provides person-centered supportive counseling, assessment of needs/risk, skills training, advocacy and case management for clients
Assists in developing problem-focused, goal-oriented treatment plans which address the specific needs of the consumer and specific anticipated clinical outcomes.
Provides comprehensive community support activities to assigned caseload, including assistance in identifying and utilizing community resources, liaison with other agencies and organizations, referral to appropriate community programs, completion of all necessary reports.
Maintains consumer records in keeping with Agency, County, and State guidelines.
Coordinates discharge planning, including referral to appropriate agencies for ongoing needs.
Requirements:
Must obtain Washington State Agency Affiliated Counselor registration within 90 days of placement in job, unless a higher credential is held
One (1) year of experience working with seriously and persistently mentally ill adults or in a Behavioral Health setting preferred
Pay and Benefit Expectations
We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $22.74 - $32.72 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicants years of experience align.
Associated benefit information can be viewed here.
Position Type: Full time - Regular Primary Shift: Day Work Schedule: Day
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization.
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