Bilingual (Spanish) Mental Health Support Practitioner
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Bilingual (Spanish) Mental Health Support Practitioner

Dec 31, 2023

Overview

Bilingual (Spanish) Mental Health Support Practitioner | Full Time & Part-Time, Remote. Kooth is a fast-growing organization with a social purpose. After 20 years of successful services in the UK, we are rapidly expanding in the United States!

OUR MISSION:

To provide welcoming and effective digital mental health support to students proactively.

Using the collective insight from nearly 1 million hours of professional intervention, we guide students to three areas of evidenced-based support: self-guided, community/peer interactions, and chat-based counseling provided by licensed Counselors. These areas of assistance are designed to match each individual student’s current needs, wants and goals as well as identify and refer to higher level of care when needed.

A role with Kooth is an exciting opportunity to join the pioneers of digital mental health and wellbeing. Through online counseling you will be helping to provide youth and students with access to immediate and often crucial support. Kooth uses technology to remove any barriers that could prevent students from accessing the help that they need.

While students have 24/7 access to Kooth’s digital programs, messages and content can be created at any time. This role will be a full-time position focused on providing moderation services to users who are working through the platform.

Your Objectives as a Mental Health Practitioner:

Role Objective: Help individuals develop achievable and measurable goals to monitor success and motivate behavioral change. Provide on-platform behavioral health care to children and youth accessing the service.

Providing structured Wellness Coaching:

  • Prevention, wellness promotion and psychoeducation through structured coaching sessions
  • Care coordination & case management
  • Offering Behavioral Health/ Wellness Coaching interventions
  • Develop individualized care plans to effectively goal set and action plan for positive behavioral change
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Optimize positive mental health by addressing determinants of positive mental health
  • Minimize mental health problems by addressing determinants of mental health problems
  • Work with users to determine their problem areas, identify obstacles, and create a plan to achieve their wellness goals

Providing Single Session Wellness Coaching:

  • Care coordination & case management
  • To effectively goal set and action plan for positive behavioral change, based on individual needs
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Prevention, wellness promotion and psychoeducation through drop-in, single-session coaching
  • Offering Behavioral Health/ Wellness Coaching interventions
  • Optimize positive mental health by addressing determinants of positive mental health
  • Minimize mental health problems by addressing determinants of mental health problems

Screening and Assessment:

  • Mental Health & wellness screening, assessment and progress monitoring
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Identify individual users who are experiencing or are at risk of experiencing social, emotional, and/or behavioral difficulties
  • Identify and support a person in crisis and know when to facilitate referrals
  • Moderation of submitted content
  • Moderation of service user submitted content following policy and procedures
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Optimize positive mental health by addressing determinants of positive mental health
  • Minimize mental health problems by addressing determinants of mental health problems
  • Moderating Journals & Goals
  • Appropriately and encouraging engagement relevant to presenting issues
  • Performing all duties in line with relevant compliance, legal requirements and internal policies with particular reference to children, young people and adult safeguarding and protection, and data protection legislation

Warm handoffs:

  • Communicate with users other healthcare providers as appropriate in order to provide a seamless care experience

Attending supervision, training, meetings:

  • Attend and effectively contribute to clinical supervision.
  • Commit to our mandatory in-house training and continuing professional development opportunities.
  • Attend and effectively contribute to both performance management and team meetings

Administration:

  • Maintain accurate records in line with Kooth’s policies and procedures, and approved systems and processes.
  • Liaise with other professionals around safeguarding issues and concerns.
  • Support operational aspects of Kooth to ensure consistent, reliable, and repeatable experiences

Qualification/ Certification Requirements Include One or More of the Following:

  • BA level mental health degrees, ex. BA in Psychology or Social Work
  • MA level mental health degree, not licensed
  • National Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist
  • National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor
  • Community Health Worker

Additionally:

  • Candidate must be Bilingual in Spanish.
  • Permanently reside within the US 48 contiguous states
  • We are seeking both Full-Time and Part-Time candidates for this role.
  • Pay range for this role will be $24 – $31 per hour, depending on level of experience.

Additional Qualification Preferences:

  • Six months experience as a crisis worker and /or volunteer experience providing crisis support services.

Benefits:

  • Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
  • Prescription Drug Coverage
  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • 8 Paid Holidays Plus Two, ½ day Holidays (Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve)
  • 401(K) Retirement Plan
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Prescription drug insurance
  • Vision insurance

Kooth provides equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.

Pay:

$24 – $31 per hour

Job Type:

Part-time, Full-time

Where to Apply:

https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=79358&clientkey=CA518AACD06747D958404929D26FA686

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