Mobile Crisis Clinician

Child & Family Services, Inc.; Fall River (MA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Language differential

Job summary

Child & Family Services, Inc. seeks an MCI Clinician to deliver mobile crisis intervention, providing rapid on-site and face-to-face therapeutic support to adults, youth and families in the community.

The role emphasizes stabilization, risk assessment and collaboration with caregivers, with duties spanning intake, safety planning and coordination of follow-up care. Flexible scheduling including nights and weekends is required.

Qualifications

• Mobile crisis intervention experience preferred.
• Ability to provide rapid assessment and stabilization.
• Experience coordinating with families and community resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide short term, mobile, on-site crisis intervention to individuals experiencing behavioral health crises.
• Perform brief solution-focused interventions and reassess ongoing needs.
• Conduct post-crisis evaluation and follow-up when applicable.
• Collaborate with staff to provide resources, referrals, and psychoeducation to families.
• Attend community meetings to advocate and address safety concerns.
• Complete intake data forms via phone or on-site and confirm health coverage.
• Engage clients in safety planning and connect with outpatient services or hospital options as needed.
• Mobilize to cases across catchment areas and report to other MCI offices as required.
• Work a flexible schedule including nights and weekends.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Case management

Safety planning

Collaboration

Communication

Job description

Summary

The MCI (Mobile Crisis Intervention) Clinician will use their knowledge of and experience with utilizing services and the wraparound process to provide clinical care and support to adults, youth, and their families and to prevent hospitalization and stabilize adults and youth in the community.

• Full-time and part-time opportunities available on 2nd and 3rd shift**

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.

$1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Provide short term service that is mobile, on site, face to face therapeutic response to an individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis for the purpose of identifying, assessing, treating, and stabilizing the situation and reducing immediate risk of danger to the individual's or others consistent with the individuals risk management safety plan


• Provide brief solution focused interventions and reassess current level of need with the adult waiting for higher level of care treatment


• Post crisis evaluation and intervention throughout the follow up period when applicable


• Work collaboratively with supportive and peer staff to provide resources/referrals, support, and psychoeducation to families


• Attend community-based meetings in conjunction with the adult, their families, and providers to assist with advocacy and addressing safety concerns


• Complete collateral contacts with the adult’s providers


• Engage the client in safety planning


• Able to provide clinical care and support to adult and their families to prevent hospitalization and stabilize adult in the community


• Ability to move quickly in responding to emergencies


• Provide triage through the call center


• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends


• Complete intake data form by telephone or in person either on site or at outreach locations


• Confirm health care coverage


• Conduct comprehensive mental health status exam for adult and utilizing an admissions/screening instrument which includes providing a diagnosis in accordance with the DSM IV and DSMV


• Telephone screening and consultations


• Understanding of different treatment modalities that can be applied to stabilize clients in their home and prevent hospitalization


• Consult with program director/administrator on call and or consulting psychiatrist prior to disposition plan to include outpatient services, hospitalization, or hospital diversion


• Participate in regularly scheduled clinical supervision, staff meetings, staff development, and training curriculum


• If licensed, complete continued education to maintain clinical professional licensure and ensure that licensure remains active

All 24-hour/Acute Care Services program staff are considered essential. Essential staff are defined as personnel who are expected to report to work as scheduled, regardless of holidays and/or during any emergency situation and/or agency closing (i.e., inclement weather) to ensure the ongoing operations of the program.

Due to the type of work and client needs, this position may need to work beyond a forty-hour work week. Additionally, essential staff may be required to remain on shift or work an additional shift until relief staff are available.

All 24-hour/Acute Care Services program staff will be assigned a home department. However, there is an expectation that this position mobilizes and responds to cases throughout the catchment areas in times of need and reports to other MCI offices (New Bedford, Fall River, Plymouth) as requested by management.

For overnight positions, staff are required to stay awake for the entirety of their shift.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.