CRT Clinician (Community Response Team)

Douglas County Government (CO); Castle Rock (CO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Job summary

Douglas County Government is seeking a CRT clinician to serve as a Co-Responder alongside law enforcement, delivering emergency response, crisis assessment, and short-term intervention in community or school settings.

The role emphasizes collaboration with partners, psychosocial evaluations, safety planning, and linkage to services within a Wrap-Around framework to reduce crisis and prevent unnecessary hospital visits.

Qualifications

• Must have a Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, or social work.
• Must be licensed or pending licensure (LPC, LMFT, LCSW).
• At least 2 years of treatment experience in a mental health setting.
• Must have crisis experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, stabilize, and safety plan with individuals and families to reduce risk.
• Work with law enforcement, treatment providers, and partners as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Assist in diverting individuals from ERs, jail, and unnecessary hospitalization.
• Conduct psychosocial evaluations during acute psychiatric emergencies.
• Develop safety and crisis intervention plans and maintain therapeutic partnerships.
• Coordinate placement and follow-up with community providers using Wrap-Around principles.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team and maintain relationships with community professionals.
• Provide culturally aware care and refer to resource services for SDoH needs.
• Document assessments and interactions in the CRT system.
• Attend team meetings and report to the CRT Clinical Supervisor.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Documentation

Education

Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, or social work

Job description

The Community Response Team (CRT) is a Co-Responder, crisis intervention program that serves Douglas County and provides an emergency response to individuals experiencing a mental health, substance use disorder, housing or school-based crisis in the community. The CRT clinician operates as a Co-Responder team member with law enforcement, riding 40-hours/week with an assigned law enforcement partner in a police vehicle. This is a crisis position, working alongside law enforcement, a resource specialist, and many community agencies. The CRT clinician provides emergency response, clinical and crisis assessment to individuals experiencing a mental health, substance use disorder and/or housing crisis in community or school settings.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Involves identifying, assessing, stabilizing, and safety planning with individual and families with the goal of reducing imminent risk and increasing coping skills and functioning.
• Works alongside law enforcement, treatment providers and other partners as members of a multi-disciplinary team devoted to linking individuals and families to the appropriate treatment.
• Ideally the clinicians assist in diverting individuals from emergency departments, jails and maintaining individuals in their home and communities.
• Conduct psychosocial evaluations, using evidence-based tools, for individuals experiencing an acute psychiatric emergency in various community settings.
• Develop effective safety/crisis intervention plans that are client-centered and support strong therapeutic partnerships with clients and families.
• Coordinate immediate placement and follow-up services with community providers using the strength-based, Wrap-Around philosophy.
• Function as part of an interdisciplinary team as well as develop and maintain effective relationships with other community professionals.
• Provide care/support to families that demonstrates cultural awareness and respect of their cultural beliefs, customs, and norms.
• Refer individuals and families to resource specialist services which provide coordination with other agencies and service providers to meet SDoH needs.
• Document in Julota all assessments completed, interactions with individuals and families, and any other pertinent information or information required in the CRT process.
• Attend team meetings as scheduled.
• Regularly meet with the CRT clinical supervisor.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Under general and routine supervision of the CRT Clinical Supervisor, the employee receives clinical guidance and supervision while operating with a high degree of independence during day-to-day assignments as a co-responder. Work is reviewed for adherence to professional standards, instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to best practices in co-response and crisis intervention.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position has no supervisory authority.

INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT

Work is highly independent under the guidance of a clinical supervisor. Worker chooses courses of action in consultation with supervisor and others as appropriate. Incumbent has wide range to use individual judgment in selecting the proper means to achieve the desired results. The worker impacts the community interest by preventing unnecessary emergency department visits, incarceration in partnership with LE partner and institutionalization unless necessary, preventing harm to client's physical or emotional status, and strengthening the family systems.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, or social work required.
• Must be licensed or pending licensure with supervision (LPC, LMFT, LCSW).
• At least 2 year of treatment experience in a mental health setting.
• Must have crisis experience.
• Experience with military and/or law enforcement is a plus.
• A combination of education and experience may be considered.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Must be aware of clinical best practices and the requirements to hold licensure in the state of Colorado.
• Ability to develop and maintain productive relationships with county employees, law enforcement and community partners.
• Understand Colorado Mental Health related legislation and CRT operational policy and procedure.
• Ability to perform the duties of a crisis clinician in partnership with law enforcement and understand and uphold the responsibilities of the clinical role.
• Integrity/Honesty-contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization, displays high standards of ethical conduct, understands the impact of violating these standards and is trustworthy.
• Reading- understands and interprets written material including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables and applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.
• Writing- Recognizes and use correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling, communicates information in a succinct and organized manner.
• Self-Management- Sets well-defined and realistic goals, displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments, works with minimal supervision, is motivated to achieve, and demonstrates responsible behavior.
• Interpersonal Skills- Shows understanding, courtesy, tact, empathy, and concern, develops and maintains relationships, may deal with people who are difficult, hostile, and/or distressed, relates well to people from varied backgrounds and situations, and is sensitive to individual differences.
• Oral Communication- Expresses information to individuals or groups effectively considering the audience and nature of the information, makes clear and convincing oral presentation, listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Problem Solving- identifies problems, determines accurate and relevant information, and uses sound judgment to solve problems.
• Planning and Evaluating- Organizes work, sets priorities, determines resource requirements, determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them, coordinates with other organization, monitors progress, and evaluates outcomes.
• Decision Making- Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions, perceives the impact and implications of decisions, commits to action even in uncertain situations to accomplish program goals.
• Reasoning- Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information, analyzes information, and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Teamwork- Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust and group identity, fosters commitment and team spirit, and works with others to achieve goals.
• Diversity- Is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, and other individual differences.
• Customer Service- Works with customers to assess needs, provide aid, resolve problems, and satisfy expectations, know available services, and be committed to providing quality products and services.
• Flexibility- is open to change and new information, adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles, and deals effectively with ambiguity.
• Conflict Management- Manages and resolves conflicts, grievances, confrontations, or disagreements in a constructive manner.
• Stress Tolerance- Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (Ex., deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, high-risk situations).
• Attention to detail- Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Learning- Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills and uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
• Information Management- Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information and organizes and maintains information using information management systems.
• Knowledge of interviewing techniques sufficient to elicit information.
• Knowledge of crisis intervention theory sufficient to be able to perform the duties related to the work assignment.
• Skill in making decisions in emergency situations where there is no opportunity or time to seek supervisory assistance or conduct significant analysis of the options.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS

• Must be licensed or supervised pending licensure (LPC, LMFT, LCSW).
• Must possess a valid Colorado Driver’s License upon hire, with complying insurance. Review of motor vehicle record is required at time of hire and periodically throughout employment.
• This position requires successful completion of a criminal background check including fingerprinting through a national database.

BENEFITS

Douglas County offers an excellent comprehensive benefit package including but not limited to: Medical/Dental/Vision.

For a more detailed overview please view the full Employee Benefit Guide.