Part-time Crisis Stabilization Unit​/Crisis Observation Unit ICS - COMCARE

Department: COMCARE

Pay: $23.46 per hour

Work Schedule: Varied shifts: PT to not exceed 999 hours per year

Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities. For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SC Benefits.

Provide intensive, goal-directed, medically necessary services to meet the needs of members of the community and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) patients who have mental illness and substance use problems resulting in crisis stabilization.

• Case Management using identified and accepted methods to remediate symptoms of mental illness and/or improve emotional and functional well-being.
• Provide crisis stabilization services to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis while they are in the Wichita Children’s Home (WCH), Crisis Observation Unit (COU), and Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU).
• Manage distraught or psychotic clients who are in need of structure; monitor gross psychological and physical functions of clients.
• Familiarize clients with guidelines and procedures of the WCH, COU, and/or CSU.
• Conduct risk assessments as needed to address safety of clients.
• Collaborate with community partners, caregivers, family members, physicians, and other treatment providers on a regular basis until client dismissal.
• Support consumers in achieving treatment goals, coordinate with collateral contacts, provide medication education, crisis management, prompt clients to complete daily living activities, and monitor clients one-on-one for safety as needed.
• Complete discharge planning and support transition to the community or to a higher level of treatment.
• Provide transportation to support client attendance in medical appointments and other therapeutic goal-related activities, including development of community resources, employment or education access, and social or consumer-run activities.
• Provide direct service to clients in responding to telephone calls on multiple crisis intervention phone lines while concurrently documenting calls.
• Address the immediate needs of walk-in clients who present in the office with a psychiatric crisis.

• Complete progress notes in accordance with COMCARE and CCBHC guidelines which meet requirements for medical necessity, goal-directed treatment, and client response to treatment within set timelines.
• Complete documentation according to minimum Medicaid and agency standards for content and quality.
• Complete call logs to ensure important information is available to other providers.

• Identify sources of information needed to provide comprehensive mental health treatment and secure the necessary COMCARE consents to release information. Submit necessary referral forms to team supervisor for approval or assignment in Psych Consult.
• Complete all necessary forms for admission and/or discharge for Crisis Stabilization Unit clients.
• Ensure all needed documentation and forms are completed and up-to-date for assigned SCOAP clients.

Bachelor’s degree or be equivalently qualified by work experience or a combination of work experience in the human services field and education, with one year of experience substituting for one year of education. If no degree is present, the applicant may substitute each one year of experience for one year of education. Per Sedgwick County policy, this is a driving level position that requires a valid US driver’s license without restrictions and current proof of automobile insurance.

Must be able to safely operate a motor vehicle and meet driver qualification standards as set forth in Sedgwick County’s Fleet Vehicle Operation and Usage policy. Must have access to a personal passenger vehicle to complete the driving duties of the position. Meet the specifications as outlined in the CMHC/CCBHC licensing standards and pass KBI, DCF child abuse check, adult abuse registry, and motor vehicle screens.

Must complete orientations provided by Sedgwick County and COMCARE.

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