Behavioral Health MRSS Clinician I

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Completes telephone consultation, screening, and triage to determine needs and desires of individuals and families calling through the crisis hotline, in collaboration with Telecrisis Team.
• Completes necessary assessments, documentation, follow up, and data collection.
• Collaborates to identify skills, supports, resources, and services to assist with stabilizing the crisis and preventing future crises from occurring.
• Coordinates services for assigned families and provides care coordination, collaboration, and a warm handoff with current behavioral health providers, natural supports, and other systems involved.
• Initiates mandatory reporting of abuse and/or neglect to Child Protective Services or other applicable agencies per Ohio law.
• Maintains currency in required trainings and familiarity with the research and/or literature in areas of expertise.
• Provides trauma-informed and culturally competent crisis intervention, risk assessment, de-escalation, collaborative safety planning, psychoeducation, and recommendations during mobile response.
• Recommends disposition for least restrictive level of care, utilizing case conceptualization. Staffing and supervision required for disposition.
• Takes the lead in seeking supervision and implementing treatment plans for cases co-managed with non-licensed team members.

Education Requirement

A master's from an accredited university or professional school is required.

Licensure Requirement

Appropriate Ohio counseling (LPC), social work (LSW), or marriage and family therapy (MFT) licensure is required.

Skills

Demonstrated skills in providing behavioral health assessment and treatment to children and adolescents. Demonstrated ability to exercise a degree of independence, initiative, judgment, and decision-making to prioritize workload and achieve program objectives. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as a team member to ensure consistent quality of services that support a high level of patient and provider satisfaction. Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills required to establish and maintain productive and collaborative team and multi-disciplinary relationships. Demonstrated sensitivity, empathy, objectivity, professionalism, effective engagement and customer service skills, and sound clinical judgement in the course of all work duties. Embraces principles of family centered care in which needs and perspectives of patients and families are acknowledged and honored.

Experience

One year of providing crisis-based mental health services with children and adolescents is preferred. Previous experience facilitating crisis intervention services is preferred.

Physical Requirements

OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Chemicals/Medications, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Flexing/extending of neck, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Loud Noises, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Squat/kneel FREQUENTLY: Computer skills, Decision Making, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Sitting, Standing, Walking CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Seeing – Far/near