POSITION TITLE: Crisis Intervention Clinician
PROGRAM: Mobile Crisis Intervention Services
Mobile Crisis Intervention Services (MCIS) provides home and community-based responses to children and youth experiencing a behavioral or psychiatric crisis. Mobile Crisis services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days per year and are available throughout the greater Waterbury, Danbury and Torrington regions (42 town catchment area). All staff are required to work their assigned schedule but may be asked to shift/alter this in response to high workflow time periods.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Crisis Intervention Clinician is responsible for direct services with children, adolescents and their families including but not limited to evaluation/assessment; home & community-based services; outreach; case and care management; brief intensive therapies; crisis intervention; record keeping; as well as collaboration with other professionals, team members and related community services (including consultation and/or community and/or school placements). They are assigned to carry a company-provided work cell phone and responds to all calls for assistance in person or by phone/telehealth (as clinically indicated).
EXAMPLES OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. To provide home and community based comprehensive crisis evaluations, treatment plans and treatment of children, adolescents and families. This includes evaluation/assessment; home and community-based services; outreach; case and care management; individual, group, family and intensive brief therapies, as well as crisis intervention.
2. To assess and implement crisis stabilization plans that include immediate tasks for crisis management and connection to clinically indicated resources and services.
3. To provide community-based outreach and treatment services as defined by the treatment plan and/or client need, in a variety of settings including but not limited to: agency offices sites, client homes, schools, emergency rooms, shelters, police stations, etc.
4. To complete clinical documentation thoroughly within required timelines to ensure appropriate and ethical care. To respond to any feedback or revisions in a timely fashion to ensure ongoing compliance with agency and regulatory standards.
5. To carry a work cell phone and to be available to provide emergency mobile (in-home, community, emergency room, school-based, other) services including both phone and face to face interventions. All clinicians are assigned a primary schedule but will be required to cover shifts outside this schedule during periods of high client need.
6. Maintain contact and provide follow-up with families requiring this service including phone and home visit support.
7. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support Mobile Crisis Intervention Services and Wellmore, Inc. company goals.
