Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapist - Community Crisis Response Team

Overview

Earn an ADDITIONAL $2.50 per hour above your base hourly rate while working for the Community Crisis Response Team!

Are you a recent Master's graduate looking to be an agent of change and make a difference in delivering health and wellness to residents?

Join a team who is passionate about the services they provide and is committed to making a difference throughout San Bernardino County.

San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health invites qualified professionals to apply for the position of Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapist for the Community Crisis Response Team (CCRT). Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapists (Marriage and Family Therapy, Master of Social Work, and Professional Clinical Counselor) work in a variety of programs providing rehabilitative mental health/substance abuse services in community mental health clinics, field and institutional settings to children, adolescents, families, and older adults with severe mental or emotional disorders.

Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapists may obtain supervised clinical experience. Applicants willing to work in forensics, criminal justice, or after-hours positions are encouraged to apply, as well as those seeking traditional schedules.

Pre-Licensed Clinical Therapists assigned to CCRT provide field-based crisis response 365 days per year from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and participate in the initial stages of disaster response, on behalf of the Department of Behavioral Health. Field teams provide one-on-one crisis intervention wherever the individual is located.
CCRT staff do not carry caseloads and are offered 4/10 schedules. The teams collaborate closely with law enforcement, schools, other Behavioral Health programs, and individuals and families of all ages and demographics and respond to disaster and critical incidents that occur in the county, providing brief crisis intervention support and therapeutic tools.

CCRT is also accepting applications for Licensed Clinical Therapist I - Community Crisis Response Team and Licensed Clinical Therapist II - Community Crisis Response Team
. Please click on a job title to be redirected to the corresponding application. Each position requires its own application.

Official

Title:

Clinical Therapist, Pre-Licensed. For additional details, refer to the Clinical Therapist, Pre-Licensed job description.

Refer to program details for field-based crisis response and collaboration with other departments. CCRT staff engage in brief crisis intervention and provide therapeutic tools in various settings. Some positions may involve after-hours work and travel across the county.

Must possess and be on first intern registration number as an AMFT, ACSW, or APCC with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) (i.e., applicants who are within six years of initial registration with the BBS). Must become licensed by the BBS within six (6) years of the original registration date or be terminated. Upon obtaining license, employees may be promoted to Licensed Clinical Therapist I.

Applicants fluent in American Sign Language, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, and/or Vietnamese are strongly encouraged to apply. Additional compensation is associated with positions requiring the use of bilingual skills. Testing of bilingual skills may be required to receive additional compensation.

• Experience in government or private inpatient, psychiatric hospital or behavioral health clinics/programs/contract agencies serving persistently mentally ill clients.
• Experience providing child/adolescent and family therapy.
• Experience in a crisis intervention/brief therapy setting with severely mentally ill adults/children.
• Experience in quality assurance or utilization review activities.
• Experience with intensive care coordination with physical health care providers for severely persistently mentally ill clients.
• Experience with case management for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Experience with coordinating care for individuals with co-occurring substance disorders.
• Experience in transitional care coordination between inpatient and outpatient levels of care for medical complexity or severely persistently mentally ill adults and children.
• Experience working with detained youth and incarcerated adults in correctional settings, such as institutions/locked detention facilities or with probationers/offenders recently released from a correctional setting.

There will be a competitive evaluation of qualifications based on the information provided in the Application and the Supplemental Questionnaire. You are encouraged to include detailed descriptions of your qualifying experience, as only the most highly qualified applicants will be referred to the Department. Please ensure all relevant experience is indicated in the Application and responses to the Supplemental Questionnaire, as resumes and other attachments will not be reviewed for the competitive evaluation.

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