Therapist, Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team (Mobile)

AltaPointe Health Systems; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

AltaPointe Health Systems seeks a qualified mental health professional to provide rapid crisis intervention and ongoing assessment for children and adolescents. The role involves direct community and home-based services, collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams, and leadership of crisis response initiatives.

You will deliver individual, group, and family therapy, coordinate with emergency services when needed, and participate in discharge planning while upholding ethics and clinical standards.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a mental health discipline and 2+ years’ psychiatric/crisis experience.
• Knowledge of child/adolescent psychiatry and related competencies to be attained within six months.
• Familiarity with Avatar electronic health record and clinical documentation practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide rapid crisis intervention and assessment via face-to-face or telephone response.
• Deescalate crisis situations and determine level of response.
• Collaborate with Access to Care and AltaPointe programs to optimize dispositions and outcomes.
• Lead the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team services.
• Provide services in the community and consumers’ homes.
• Follow up with consumers and referrals after a crisis.
• Coordinate with EMS or law enforcement when needed.
• Develop treatment plans with consumers and families.
• Provide individual, group, and family therapy as needed.
• Advocate for consumer to secure community resources.
• Discharge planning and movement to less restrictive environments.
• Maintain professional ethics and child/adolescent competencies.

Skills

Crisis intervention

De-escalation

Team collaboration

Community/home visits

Education

Master's degree in mental health discipline

Tools

Avatar EHR

Job description

• Provides rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, using face-to-face or telephone response, when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator as appropriate
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation
• Collaborates with Access to Care as needed
• Establishes and maintains regularly scheduled, and as needed, contact with the other AltaPointe programs to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes
• Leads in the initiating and implementing the services of the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team
• Provides services in the community, consumer’s homes, etc.
• Effectively determines the level of response needed in crisis situations
• Provides appropriate follow-up and referrals after a crisis
• Educates families on de-escalating crisis situations, including but not limited to, safety plans
• Follows up with consumers that are in AltaPointe Children’s Outpatient Programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk.
• Travels to consumers’ homes to ensure medication compliance as needed
• Utilizes appropriate communication methods to ensure appropriate communication with individual consumers’ treatment teams
• Assist in securing emergency medical services or law enforcement services if needed
• Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer as needed
• Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis as needed
• Formulates appropriate treatment plan along with consumer and families, as appropriate
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing basic therapeutic models and theories according to consumer needs as stated in the treatment plan as needed
• Effectively collaborates with the treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel and outside sources in the delivery of clinical services
• Advocates on behalf of the consumer to secure community resources
• Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning or movement to a less restrictive environment
• Adheres to professional code of ethics
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child/adolescent specific competencies

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provides rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, using face-to-face or telephone response, when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator as appropriate
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation
• Collaborates with Access to Care as needed
• Establishes and maintains regularly scheduled, and as needed, contact with the other AltaPointe programs to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes
• Leads in the initiating and implementing the services of the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team
• Provides services in the community, consumer’s homes, etc.
• Effectively determines the level of response needed in crisis situations
• Provides appropriate follow-up and referrals after a crisis
• Educates families on de-escalating crisis situations, including but not limited to, safety plans
• Follows up with consumers that are in AltaPointe Children’s Outpatient Programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk.
• Travels to consumers’ homes to ensure medication compliance as needed
• Utilizes appropriate communication methods to ensure appropriate communication with individual consumers’ treatment teams
• Assist in securing emergency medical services or law enforcement services if needed
• Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer as needed
• Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis as needed
• Formulates appropriate treatment plan along with consumer and families, as appropriate
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing basic therapeutic models and theories according to consumer needs as stated in the treatment plan as needed
• Effectively collaborates with the treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel and outside sources in the delivery of clinical services
• Advocates on behalf of the consumer to secure community resources
• Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning or movement to a less restrictive environment
• Adheres to professional code of ethics
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child/adolescent specific competencies

Supervision and Consultation

• Seeks clinical supervision and consultation as needed
• Accepts and employs suggestions for improvement
• Actively works to enhance clinical skills

Clinical Record Keeping

• Documents in a timely fashion per AltaPointe policy
• Learns and utilizes Avatar electronic health record appropriately
• Documents in detail the resolutions of crisis situations and linkage to appropriate follow up sources.

Master’s degree in a mental health discipline with 2 or more years’ experience working with psychiatric disorders or crisis situations.

Knowledge in child/adolescent specialty, outlined below, to be attained within (6) six months of employment.

• Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in the child/adolescent population
• Basic knowledge of the nature of addiction for referral purposes
• Knowledge of cultural diversity
• Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention and interventions common to acute psychotic consumers, as well as, to non-violent crisis intervention practice
• Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation principles
• Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to children/adolescents with severe and persistent psychiatric disorders
• Knowledge of AltaPointe services and continuum of care
• Knowledge of appropriate services codes and billing procedures
• Knowledge of community resources