Mental Health Practitioner Apprentice / Intern (Metro State/Century)

SpringPath Mental Health Services

Our therapy team executes customized treatment plans that deliver real results and exceed patients' expectations. If you're motivated to give our clients a more positive quality of life we encourage you to apply today!

Crisis Assessment and medical/behavioral emergency
• Conducts variety of assessments such as suicidal, Vestibular Assessment, immediate needs, functional, living skills, and resource acquisitions
• Complete Interpretative summaries
• Develops crisis/treatment/behavioral plans and goals for clients
• Writes progress notes, summaries, and discharges
• Group and Individual Counseling services
• Skills Teaching
• Case Management
• Household management
• Implements the treatment/rehabilitative activities and strategies
• Crisis Prevention
• Medication Administration
• Participates in weekly staff meetings
• Reports significant / major incidents or accidents
• Establishes high levels of mutual trust and support with others.
• Provides coaching/learning environment
• Provides and promotes consumer choice and facilitates independence
• Able to perform duties independently and as a team
• Promoting the operation in a positive manner to the community and outside agencies.
• Promotes/encourages community integration and choice making
• Dependable, accepts responsibility for attendance and punctuality
• Conduct self in professional and ethical manner
• Cooperates and is willing to assist others, accepts direction
• Demonstrates productive individual and teamwork behaviors
• Handles information in a confidential manner
• Communicates in an open and honest manner
• Notifies proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazard.
• Observes and implements established policies on health, safety, security, code of conduct, regulation, and company policies
• Other duties as assigned

To be considered for the apprenticeship, you must:

• Be 18 years or older
• Be a current student at Metro State University
• Complete a Minnesota DHS background check (NETStudy 2.0)
• Commit to 6-month placement
• Have an active/valid driver's license

You must also meet at least one of the following criteria: (MN DHS MHRW Qualifications)

• Completed 15 semesters or 23 quarter credits in a behavioral science or related field
• 3+ years of personal experience living with a mental illness or 3+ years of caregiving experience for someone with mental illness, TBI, substance use disorder, developmental disability, or 2,000 hours of paid work in health and human services (within the past 10 years)