{"id":5006,"date":"2024-03-20T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=5006"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:49:17","slug":"mental-health-practitioner-lead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/classified-staff\/mental-health-practitioner-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Practitioner Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18727 (E S WFSE HMC)<br \/>\n21775 (NE S WFSE HMC)<br \/>\n23084 (NE H NI WFSE HMC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLASS SERIES CONCEPT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provide mental health diagnostic evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and case management services in a multi-disciplinary outpatient setting, and consultation and education to other mental health and health care professionals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BASIC FUNCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lead Mental Health Practitioners and provide prescribed treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regularly assign, instruct, and check the work of mental health practitioners and other staff; make recommendations regarding performance evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>Under general supervision, lead Mental Health Practitioners and other staff; perform clinical duties such as providing treatment, maintaining case records, participating in data collection and research, and case management functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orient, teach, lead and evaluate professionals, students, and\/or volunteers;<\/p>\n<p>Perform lead co-therapist duties;<\/p>\n<p>Debrief students and volunteers;<\/p>\n<p>Consult with Mental Health Practitioners about clinical issues;<\/p>\n<p>Perform Mental Health Practitioner duties; and<\/p>\n<p>Perform related duties as required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEGAL REQUIREMENT(S)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Licensed by the State of Washington as a Clinical Social Worker, Marriage and Family Counselor, or Mental Health Counselor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Master&#8217;s Degree in behavioral sciences such as psychology, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, vocational or educational counseling, or social work<\/p>\n<p>AND<\/p>\n<p>Three years of experience as a Mental Health Practitioner or equivalent. Eligibility for recognition by the State of Washington as a clinical specialist, under the community mental health regulations, may be required. May be required to be eligible for a clinical faculty appointment and\/or allied health credentialing.<\/p>\n<p>Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11\/01\/2019: New to WFSE, Class adopted for UW contract classified staff per PERC decision Case #131267-E-19 to add this title to WFSE HMC bargaining unit, effective 05\/23\/2019. Incorporates the work of UW classified non-union job code 16194, Mental Health Practitioner Lead\/Washington State Job Code 352G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP 18727 (E S WFSE HMC) 21775 (NE S WFSE HMC) 23084 (NE H NI WFSE HMC) CLASS SERIES CONCEPT Provide mental health diagnostic evaluation, treatment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5006","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9395,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5006\/revisions\/9395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}