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Masters Mental Health Professional Associate

Primary Location Honolulu, Hawaii Schedule Full-time Shift Day Salary $51100 - $66110 / year
Job Number 1380053 Date posted 09/02/2025
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Mental health is an essential component of total health. As mental health professionals, we’re on the front lines every day, using the latest advances to help those in need. If you share our passion for care and our commitment to helping those around us, you’ll have the resources you need to make a real difference. Our services include adult and child therapy as well as help with addiction and eating disorders.

  • Job Type:Standard
  • Job Level:Individual Contributor
  • Travel:Yes, 25 % of the Time

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We offer a mental health environment that's unique both in the way we treat our patients and in the way we support our health care professionals. Here, we practice evidence-based care in a team setting that’s focused on the needs of the individual, the family and the population as a whole. This gives your patients the opportunity to work towards achieving their physical, mental, and behavioral health goals. On our teams, we hold social justice as a shared value and are committed to addressing and eliminating stigma associated with mental health and addiction. Working as part of a team also helps support your own career growth while you provide high-quality strengths-based, brief, solution-focused, and episodic mental health care.

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Masters Mental Health Professional Associate

Primary Location Honolulu, Hawaii Schedule Full-time Shift Day Salary $51100 - $66110 / year
Job Number 1380053 Date posted 09/02/2025
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Description:
Job Summary:

This position is part of the Integrated Behavioral Health department and follows its regional policies and procedures. It is designed to provide advanced training and clinical supervision to master's level trained mental health professional to meet the requirements for clinical supervision hours needed to be eligible to obtain a clinical license. Under supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, or a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, provides mental health and/or addiction triage, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and crisis intervention services for adult and/or child members who present themselves for evaluation with a broad range of psychiatric or addiction related mental health needs. Under supervision, may collaborate with treating primary care providers and with psychiatric, addiction medicine, and allied health professional team members to plan and direct each individual patient's treatment program.


Essential Responsibilities:


  • Under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist or a Licensed Mental Health Counselor provides individual, family and group psychotherapy to members needing mental health or addictions care.

  • Under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist or a Licensed Mental Health Counselor provides triage, assessment, and crisis intervention to members needing mental health or addictions care.

  • Under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, or a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates clinical treatment programs for the diagnosis, treatment, care coordination and/or referral of Health Plan members with acute or chronic mental health or addiction illness.

  • Actively participates in assigned clinical supervision including individual supervision, group supervision, and case conference/group session.

  • Attends workshops and regional seminars on a regular basis as part of the training.

  • Participates in staff meetings, case conferences, and other staff functions. Facilitates community outreach and community referrals as needed.

  • Prepares intake summaries, treatment plans, and case summaries and maintains ongoing confidential records.

  • Charts members treatment and progress in accord with Kaiser Permanente, state and NCQA regulations and in keeping with accepted community standards.

  • Complies with regional and local policies and procedures.

  • Complies with the Code of Ethics and state law pertaining to the delivery of mental health services.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience


  • Successful completion of internships or practicum in mental health setting during a masters degree program or previous work experience in mental health setting.


Education


  • Masters Degree in a social work (or Social Welfare from a clinical track), or masters degree in clinical or counseling psychology, or Masters degree in Marriage & Family Therapy, or allied field related to the practice of mental health counseling from an accredited college or university by start date.


License, Certification, Registration


  • Mental Health Counselor License (Hawaii) within 36 months of hire OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii) within 36 months of hire OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Hawaii) within 36 months of hire



  • Basic Life Support required at hire from American Heart Association



Additional Requirements:


  • Once hired as an Associate, an employee will be offered and must work a schedule that would accumulate at least half the required supervisory hours annually.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

  • Professional maturity and ethical integrity necessary for assuming professional responsibilities.

  • Commitment to quality of service, teamwork, and participation in a highly interactive multidisciplinary clinic.

  • Ability to complete multiple tasks/objectives in a timely manner.



Preferred Qualifications:


  • Experience and/or training in Clinical Case Management, preferred.

  • Experience and/or training in group therapy, preferred.

  • Knowledge and experience in using the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) preferred.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, preferred.

Primary Location: Hawaii,Honolulu,Ala Moana Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM Working Hours End: 05:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Flexible Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-HI-01|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Individual Contributor Department: Ala Moana - Mental Health/Psych-Child - 1208 Pay Range: $51100 - $66110 / year Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
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