Licensed Mobile Crisis Clinician

CHD Brand; Chicopee (MA); Hybrid; USD 48,353; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of behavioral health services in Chicopee seeks Licensed Clinicians to provide care to adults and youth experiencing mental health crises. The ideal candidates will have a Master’s degree, strong communication skills, and a commitment to client-centered service. This role includes conducting assessments, offering timely interventions, and collaborating with community supports. Flexible shifts are available in a supportive team environment. Apply today to join a mission-driven organization dedicated to enhancing community well-being.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in mental health counseling or related field is mandatory.
• Proficient in verbal and written communication skills required.
• Reliable transportation access needed.
• Must pass a CORI and driving background check.

Responsibilities

• Engage clients in behavioral health crisis and conduct assessments.
• Update clinical knowledge and apply treatment methods appropriately.
• Protect personal health information and report any breaches immediately.
• Communicate professionally with colleagues and external professionals.
• Fulfill mission and core values of the agency.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Crisis assessment

Therapeutic knowledge

Initiative

Education

Master’s in mental health counseling, social work or related field

Job description

Seeking Licensed Clinicians to work in a team environment providing care to adults and youth in CHD’s CBHC Adult or Youth Mobile Crisis. These programs offer 24/7 support, assessment, care coordination, and follow up to those clients experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. All CBHC Programs are located in one location and integrated highly to treat individuals and families throughout the care continuum.

Open 7 days per week, with the intention of offering the right service at the right time, all shifts are available.

Oriented to offering a continuum of care across all services, the right candidate will be dynamic, curious, and person-centered and demonstrate initiative.

Job Responsibilities:

• Clinician works to engage on-site, or in some cases over telehealth, clients in behavioral health crisis. They will work to establish crisis assessments, care coordinators, maintain safety of client and others collaborate with family or other community supports as identified by client, offer timely and appropriate interventions, and plan discharge to appropriate levels of care.
• Clinician knows and updates a body of clinical knowledge used to gather and analyze client problems. Clinician knows, maintains and uses a set of treatment methods which are appropriate to the diagnosis and which are consistent with accepted practice standards for the field of social work or mental health counseling.
• Clinician learns and follows practices for the protection of personal health information and reports any breaches of such practice immediately.
• Clinician interacts with colleagues, supervisors and helping professionals outside of CHD on behalf of the client and communicates in a professional manner to support the client’s treatment goals. Clinician will attend external agency meetings, clinic staff meetings, and periodic trainings as required and attends regular individual supervision meetings.
• The clinician fulfills the mission and the core values of the agency, and represents these values to clients and community contacts.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Clinician holds a Master’s in mental health counseling, social work or related field
• Proficient in verbal and written communication. Able to utilize a computer and become competent in the use of an electronic health record.
• Access to reliable transportation.
• Be able to pass a CORI and driving background check.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Salary: $35.10/hour

At CHD, Center for Human Development, Care Finds a Way:

The Center for Human Development (CHD) provides a broad range of high quality, community-oriented human services dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the dignity and welfare of people in need. CHD has partnered with the state of Massachusetts to increase access to urgent behavioral health care through our new outpatient behavioral health clinic and crisis services. Gateway, CHD’s new Community Behavioral Health Center in Chicopee, provides:

• 24/7 mobile crisis services
• Crisis stabilization for youth and adults in person and via telehealth

Our CBHC program delivers these services as an alternative to hospital emergency departments. It also offers respite, outreach, medication management, and peer-level support to ensure that your family member is taken care of on every level.

Connect with our team today - If this sounds like the right job for you, do not wait - apply today to join our team. We look forward to hearing from you!

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