Overview
Mobile Crisis Clinician ($5000 Sign-On Bonus!)
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Compensation & Schedule
- Base pay range: $30.00/hr - $33.00/hr
- 1 per hour Language Differential (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)
- $5000 Full-time Sign-On Bonus (prorated for part-time) — Half at 3 months; half at 6 months
- Schedules available:
- Sunday - Thursday / 3PM-11PM
- Wednesday - Saturday / 11AM-7PM OR 12PM-8PM
Shift Differentials
- SATURDAY-SUNDAY 1ST SHIFT + $2.50/HOUR
- MONDAY-FRIDAY 2ND SHIFT + $1.50/HOUR
- SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2ND SHIFT + $4.00/HOUR
- SUNDAY-THURSDAY 3RD SHIFT + $5.00/HOUR
- FRIDAY & SATURDAY 3RD SHIFT + $7.50/HOUR
Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions
- Provide short-term mobile, on-site, face-to-face therapeutic response to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis to identify, assess, treat, and stabilize the situation and reduce immediate risk, in line with the individual’s safety plan
- Provide brief solution-focused interventions and reassess current level of need with adults awaiting higher level of care
- Post-crisis evaluation and intervention during follow-up when applicable
- Collaborate with supportive and peer staff to provide resources/referrals, support, and psychoeducation to families
- Attend community-based meetings with the adult, their families, and providers to assist with advocacy and safety concerns
- Complete collateral contacts with the adult’s providers
- Engage the client in safety planning
- Provide clinical care and support to adults and their families to prevent hospitalization and stabilize individuals in the community
- Respond quickly to emergencies
- Provide triage through the call center
- Work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends
- Complete intake data forms by telephone or in person on-site or at outreach locations
- Confirm health care coverage
- Conduct comprehensive mental health status exams for adults using screening instruments and provide diagnoses as appropriate
- Telephone screening and consultations
- Understand treatment modalities to stabilize clients in their home and prevent hospitalization
- Consult with program director/administrator on call or consulting psychiatrist prior to disposition planning
- Participate in regularly scheduled clinical supervision, staff meetings, and training
- If licensed, complete continuing education to maintain licensure
All 24-hour/Acute Care Services program staff are considered essential. Essential staff are required to report to work as scheduled during holidays, emergencies, or agency closures to ensure ongoing operations.
Due to client needs, this position may require working beyond a forty-hour work week. Essential staff may need to remain on shift or take additional shifts until relief staff are available.
All 24-hour/Acute Care Services program staff will be assigned to a home department but may mobilize and respond to cases across catchment areas and may be requested to report to other MCI offices as needed.
For overnight positions, staff may be required to stay awake for the entirety of the 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 all activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee and may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications
- MA level graduates are welcome to apply; offers can be made pending verification of MA degree
- Compensation determined by factors including internal equity, experience, and market alignment
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