Behavioral Health Crisis Response Substitute Clinician

City of Boulder; Boulder (CO); Sur place; USD 55 000 - 80 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

City of Boulder seeks a part-time Behavioral Health Crisis Response Team clinician to cover short-term staffing gaps and respond to crises alongside BHCRT staff or with Boulder Police Department officers.

You will handle crisis assessments, coordinate care, and document contacts in collaboration with multiple partner agencies. Background checks and CJIS clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Clear written and verbal communication in crisis situations.
• Ability to document and coordinate care across agencies.
• Demonstrated emotional regulation during high-stress 911 responses.
• Ability to follow laws, ethics, and CJIS requirements.

Responsabilités

• Provide on-site crisis response for behavioral health incidents.
• Conduct clinical assessments and document findings.
• Coordinate referrals and care with schools, hospitals, and police partners.
• Support team supervision, trainings, and meetings.
• Ensure accurate documentation and follow-up with clients.

Connaissances

Communication skills

Emotional regulation

Crisis intervention

Ethics and integrity

Team collaboration

Microsoft Office

Records management systems

Outils

Microsoft Office

Records management systems

Description du poste

It's a great time to join the City of Boulder!

Application Deadline: November 9, 2026

Compensation Details: Full Pay Range 40.20 - 58.23

Generally, the hiring range is from the minimum up to 80% of the range.This is a part-time hourly position.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 19

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Job Description Summary:

Under general direction, fills in on an as-needed basis to cover short-term staffing gaps at full operational capacity. As part of the City of Boulder's Behavioral Health Crisis Response Team (BHCRT), this role responds to 911 and police non-emergency calls involving behavioral health components. Depending on the nature of the call, responses are handled either independently alongside other BHCRT staff (alternative response) or paired directly with Boulder Police Department officers (co-response).

Job Description:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides as-needed in person response to situations involving behavioral health concerns or crisis in a variety of community settings via 911 dispatch, including homes, businesses, street corners, parks, congregate living facilities, and shelters.
• Conducts clinical interventions, including mental status exams, suicide and risk assessments in place of full-time clinicians to address presenting crisis and determine if people in distress meet criteria for involuntary treatment. Prepares mental health holds and other legal documents as needed.
• Makes appropriate level of care decisions on scene and communicates, collaborates, and assists in care coordination with multiple collateral agencies, including schools, hospitals, family members and significant others to facilitate referrals for needed community-based services and treatment.
• Documents all contacts according to team policies.
• Provides transportation for clients during calls for service or follow-up contacts according to team policies and applicable laws.
• Provides telephone or in person follow ups with community members in order to to connect them to behavioral health care and other resources in the community.
• Works collaboratively with BHCRT case managers to support clients with complex or ongoing needs.
• Participates in clinical supervision, trainings, and team meetings according to team policies.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to communicate ideas clearly in written and spoken form, particularly as it applies to documentation, care coordination, and in crisis situations.
• Ability to communicate tactfully and effectively with the public and colleagues.
• Ability to complete work in a timely and consistent manner in accordance with team policies.
• Ability to demonstrate emotional regulation during responses to 911 calls that may involve highly distressed or antagonistic individuals and manage secondary trauma related to crisis work.
• Ability to practice within applicable laws and ethics with a demonstrated skill in acting with integrity as a steward of public resources and as a professional working in the involuntary treatment system. Demonstrated skill in applying ethical principles to complex problems.
• Ability to support change with flexibility and grace.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently as a member of a team.
• Knowledge of community resources and ability to make appropriate referrals in crisis situations.
• Knowledge of major mental illness, personality disorders, neurocognitive disorders, complex trauma, intellectual/developmental disabilities, substance use disorders, suicide assessment, safety planning, trauma informed care, harm reduction, crisis de-escalation, criteria for involuntary behavioral health care according to Colorado statute, and impact of involuntary treatment.
• Skill and proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and the records management systems used by the team.
• Skill in listening to concerns and ideas of colleagues and community members.
• Skill in making rapid, accurate diagnostic assessments, including some ability to distinguish between psychosis due to mental illness vs substance use.
• Must be able to meet and maintain the requirements of applicable federal, state, and organizational background checks, including the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) background check.
• Must successfully pass a background check before first day of work and maintain acceptable screening.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to demonstrate related behavioral health experience as a mobile crisis clinician, co-responder, crisis clinician doing level of care assessments, or other modality working with an acute population in a high intensity environment.
• Ability to speak Spanish, as a second language, in a professional capacity for communication objectives.
• Knowledge of and prior experience working and collaborating with Emergency Medical Services (EMS), police, and/or fire personnel.
• Knowledge of and prior experienc