CRT Clinician; Community Response Team

The Community Response Team (CRT) is a Co-Responder, crisis intervention program that serves Douglas County and provides an emergency response to individuals experiencing a mental health, substance use disorder, housing or school-based crisis in the community. The CRT clinician operates as a Co-Responder team member with law enforcement, riding 40-hours/week with an assigned law enforcement partner in a police vehicle. This is a crisis position, working alongside law enforcement, a resource specialist, and many community agencies.

The CRT clinician provides emergency response, clinical and crisis assessment to individuals experiencing a mental health, substance use disorder and/or housing crisis in community or school settings.

• Involves identifying, assessing, stabilizing, and safety planning with individual and families with the goal of reducing imminent risk and increasing coping skills and functioning.
• Works alongside law enforcement, treatment providers and other partners as members of a multi-disciplinary team devoted to linking individuals and families to the appropriate treatment.
• Ideally the clinicians assist in diverting individuals from emergency departments, jails and maintaining individuals in their home and communities.
• Conduct psychosocial evaluations, using evidence-based tools, for individuals experiencing an acute psychiatric emergency in various community settings.
• Develop effective safety/crisis intervention plans that are client-centered and support strong therapeutic partnerships with clients and families.
• Coordinate immediate placement and follow-up services with community providers using the strength-based, Wrap-Around philosophy.
• Function as part of an interdisciplinary team as well as develop and maintain effective relationships with other community professionals.
• Provide care/support to families that demonstrates cultural awareness and respect of their cultural beliefs, customs, and norms.
• Refer individuals and families to resource specialist services which provide coordination with other agencies and service providers to meet SDoH needs.
• Document in Julota all assessments completed, interactions with individuals and families, and any other pertinent information or information required in the CRT process.
• Attend team meetings as scheduled.
• Regularly meet with the CRT clinical supervisor.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Under general and routine supervision of the CRT Clinical Supervisor, the employee receives clinical guidance and supervision while operating with a high degree of independence during day-to-day assignments as a co-responder. Work is reviewed for adherence to professional standards, instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to best practices in co-response and crisis intervention.

This position has no supervisory authority.

Work is highly independent under the guidance of a clinical supervisor. Worker chooses courses of action in consultation with supervisor and others as appropriate. Incumbent has wide range to use individual judgment in selecting the proper means to achieve the desired results. The worker impacts the community interest by preventing unnecessary emergency department visits, incarceration in partnership with LE partner and institutionalization unless necessary, preventing harm to client's physical or emotional status, and strengthening the family systems.

• Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, or social work required.
• Must be licensed or pending licensure with supervision (LPC, LMFT, LCSW).
• At least 2 year of treatment experience in a mental health setting.
• Must have crisis experience.
• Experienc…