Crisis Specialist PT Evening

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Position: Crisis Specialist PT Evening

Location: Effingham, IL

Job : 61

# of Openings: 1

Under the assigned supervisor, the Evening Crisis Specialist I provides community-based response, crisis intervention, crisis stabilization, and case management to children and adults within agencies policies and program guidelines.

The Evening Crisis Specialist I works to alleviate or stabilize mental health and behavioral health symptoms of referred clients. The Evening Crisis Specialist I utilizes assessment tools to determine immediate level of care needs for referred clients, specifically including determination of psychiatric hospitalization or safe deflection. Position provides linkages to resources that will help client alleviate current and future client crises.

Crisis response services are provided to both adults and youth in the community.

• BSW or BS/BA degree preferred in human service-related fieldor
• High School Diploma and 5 years experience working in Medicaid reimbursable mental health services required

• 1-3 or more years related experience in child welfare, mental health, or crisis servicespreferred

• Provides on location evening and weekend crisis intervention assessment and stabilization services, hours starting at 5pm-8am Monday through Friday and Saturday 8am through Monday 8am. Shifts are expected to be 8 hours, as determined by supervisor and staff availability. Crisis work may require work hours to extend before or after shift times and staff are required to complete crisis until coverage from the next shift is available.
• Some coverage of nights, weekends, and holidays if schedule or staffing requires additional support.
• This position is part time with expectation of 25 – 30 hours a week.
• Completes Crisis/Safety Assessment with an ETA of 60 minutes for CCRP 90 minutes for in person response for other crisis programs.
• Crisis response is required to be at the site of the client/crisis event. This includes homes, schools, emergency departments, public locations, office, etc.
• With supervisory or Director approval, there are instances in which a mobile crisis response event may require tele-assessment services or phone support.
• Position requires partnerships in the community working with local law enforcement, hospitals, emergency rooms, schools, and community providers.
• Utilizes assessment tools to determine immediate level of care and service array needs for referred…