This spring TMHCA has several job openings across the state for your consideration.
Regional Advocate in Knoxville Tennessee
Tennessee Mental Health Consumers’ Association has an immediate opening for an East Tennessee Regional Advocate. Key responsibilities include providing consumers with information, peer support and training, and educational activities directed at building self-advocacy skills promoting rehabilitation and recovery. Advocates must be able to work effectively with stakeholder groups and the general public and must work effectively in a team environment. The Advocate must live in the Knoxville Metropolitan area. State, Local, and National travel is involved. Starting Salary is $21,000.00 annually. Benefits include 12 sick and 12 annual days yearly and TMHCA offers health insurance. TMHCA pays 80% percent of the employee’s insurance premium and the employee pays 20% and is responsible for all co-pays and deductibles. Applicant must have a clean criminal background history. Please fax resumes to TMHCA at 615.383.1176 Attention Advocacy Director.
Peer Support and Psychosocial Services in Knoxville and the Tri Cities area
The Tennessee Mental Health Consumers’ Association is seeking to hire qualified individuals with the lived experience of mental illness in the following areas:
Tri-Cities (Johnson City, Bristol, Kingsport) – 3 full time positions
Knoxville, Tennessee – 3 full time positions
Applicant must meet one of the following criteria:
- Must be an individual that has received or currently receives mental health services with a Bachelors in Social Work or related fields, or;
- Must be an individual that has received or currently receives mental health services with a with a Tennessee State Certified Peer Specialist accreditation.
Tennessee State Certified Peer Specialist accreditation visit: http://state.tn.us/mental/recovery/oca3.html
Peer Support and Psychosocial Staff will work in a community setting providing evidence-based practices, best practices and peer support to individuals that meet criteria set forth by stakeholders in Tennessee. Additional requirements include: High school diploma or equivalent with local, state, and national travel required. Starting Salary is $23,000.00 annually. Benefits include 12 sick and 12 annual days yearly and TMHCA offers health insurance. TMHCA pays 80% percent of the employee’s insurance premium and the employee pays 20% and is responsible for all co-pays and deductibles. Applicant must have a clean criminal background history. Please fax resumes to TMHCA at 615.383.1176 Attention East TN Regional Director.
Administrative Assistant in Nashville, TN
The Administrative Assistant will work 40 hours weekly in an office setting providing support to TMHCA Executive Director and TMHCA Associate Director. The TMHCA Administrative Assistant must be a person with mental illness. A person with mental illness is someone that has met at some point in their adult life the following definition: an adult with a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet diagnosable criteria as specified within DSM-IV that has resulted in functional impairment which has substantially interfered with or limited one or more major activities. Qualifications include: a business degree or 2 years business experience, a high school diploma with administrative experience, knowledge of data and administrative management practices and procedures, knowledge of clerical practices and procedures, computer skills and knowledge of office software packages (Windows based, Microsoft Word, Excel, databases, etc.). Starting Salary is $23,000.00 annually. Benefits include 12 sick and 12 annual days yearly and TMHCA offers health insurance. TMHCA pays 80% percent of the employee’s insurance premium and the employee pays 20% and is responsible for all co-pays and deductibles. Applicant must have a clean criminal background history. Please fax resumes to TMHCA at 615.383.1176 Attention Associate Director.
Regional Director in Knoxville, Tennessee
The Regional Program Director represents TMHCA in the grand division. Key responsibilities include supervising Certified Peer Specialists and TMHCA East Tennessee Medicaid Program; and providing consumers with information, peer support and training, and educational activities directed at building self-advocacy skills promoting rehabilitation and recovery. The Regional Program Director must be able to work effectively with stakeholder groups and the general public and must work effectively in a team environment. The Regional Program Director must be a person with mental illness. A person with mental illness is someone that has met at some point in their adult life the following definition: an adult with a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet diagnosable criteria as specified within DSM-IV that has resulted in functional impairment which has substantially interfered with or limited one or more major activities.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED: BSW in social work with the expectation of becoming licensed within three months. One (1) year clinical experience preferred. The Regional Program Director will work in an Office setting, with local, state and national travel required. Starting Salary is $35,000.00 annually. Benefits include 12 sick and 12 annual days yearly and TMHCA offers health insurance. TMHCA pays 80% percent of the employee’s insurance premium and the employee pays 20% and is responsible for all co-pays and deductibles Applicant must have a clean criminal background history. Please fax resumes to TMHCA at 615.383.1176 Attention Associate Director.
Two (2) Security Coordinators in Memphis
The Resident Security Coordinators maintains and monitors the TMHCA Beers-Van Gogh Center in Memphis, TN. The Resident Security Manager must be able to work effectively in a team environment. EDUCATION: High school diploma or equivalent.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: Apartment complex setting working with formerly homeless mental health consumers that are tenants. Must be a mental health consumer: A mental health consumer is someone that has met at some point in their adult life the following definition: an adult with a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet diagnosable criteria as specified within DSM-IV that has resulted in functional impairment which has substantially interfered with or limited one or more major activities. Resident Security Coordinators will work 32 hours weekly. Hours are nights and weekends. Starting Salary is $10.00 hourly. Applicant must have a clean criminal background history. Please fax resumes to TMHCA at 615.383.1176 Attention Housing Director.
