Crisis Family Specialist I

Initial compensation ranges from $31.40 - $38.61 per hour, depending on experience, location, and internal equity considerations. Additional differentials include an 8% license differential for LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD, and select Peer Certifications, and a 7.5% bilingual differential for qualified positions.

Benefits

• Benefits eligibility starts on day one
• Robust benefits package including medical, dental, and vision
• 401K employer match up to 4%
• Competitive time off plans

About Our Program

MRSS is a Mobile Mental Health Evaluation Team that handles psychiatric emergencies for youth and young adults through age 21 who are experiencing dangerous mental health issues. This team can facilitate psychiatric hospitalization and write 72-hour holds.

Schedule

Saturday - Sunday, 12am - 9am

Responsibilities

• Provides direct services to youth and families
• Provides direct billable mental health services, documents in alignment with MediCal regulations, and achieves set productivity expectations
• Engages and builds alignment and relationships with parents, youth, and others in the normal course of working with families
• Utilizes strengths of youth, families, and others to assist in the implementation and achievement of goals and outcomes
• Works with youth and family teams to support family-driven, strength-based planning and interventions
• Understands and takes advantage of therapeutic opportunities in crisis situations
• Conducts observations regarding specific target behavior, tracks progress, and modifies plans with the family to support their intended identified outcome
• Assists teams in developing a hypothesis of function and underlying unmet need to develop individualized, strength-based strategies and interventions that result in positive behavior change
• Engages caregivers, family members, and other natural supports in building youth-specific parenting responses that support positive behavior change and overall family relationships
• Works in the community directly with youth and families to develop and implement safety and skill refinement plans
• Supports families in bridging to and/or building on natural resources and accessing community-based program supports that will continue support over time
• Develops resources within the community to serve children and families
• Assists youth and family teams to meet specific service needs (e.g., help develop strategy or resource specific to an identified need) and monitors outcomes
• Participates in family finding team activities by identifying family finding need, obtaining authorizations, creating teams, conducting searches, and setting deadlines; completes Connectedness Maps as needed
• Documents interactions and practices and maintains administrative expectations in a timely manner; meets or exceeds all direct service expectations and documentation requirements
• Assists in developing program responses to needs identified across youth and families where natural community resources are not available or appropriate
• Builds on individual strengths, concerns, and needs with balanced focus on the family as a unit
• Facilitates and/or co-facilitates, supports, and models participation in healthy group dynamics within various settings including family homes, schools, parks and recreation centers, and treatment facilities; provides an open forum for expression of feelings and ideas when appropriate
• Builds solid, cooperative, culturally responsive relationships with youth and families as well as community resources to assist with planning, organizing, implementation, and evaluation of appropriate activities to achieve family-identified goals
• Performs other responsibilities, as assigned, to support department/business needs

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and one (1) year of relevant experience working with children, or equivalent combination of education and experience (two years of relevant experience equals one year of education)
• Ability to speak, read, and/or write another language consistent with the program's client needs

Skills

• Conflict Resolution
• Documents Clearly and Accurately
• Encouraging Customer Focus
• Learning on the Fly
• Time Management

Physical Requirements

• Must remain physically fit enough to keep clients self-safe
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear, taste or smell
• Ability to move quickly/run
• Must pass an initial physical abilities test (PATS) and be certified in crisis intervention techniques within the first 30 days and annually
• If employed at a Crisis Stabilization Unit, must perform and pass a Human Performance Evaluation Test at a designated company clinic, including testing for lifting, pushing/pulling, repetitive coupling, static weight, and other required movements
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Driving may be required. Unsupervised contact with children requires a full background check and TB exam.