Mobile Crisis Specialist

About the role

Santé Group Companies prides itself in being a leader in community-based behavioral and mental health services. Our track record of innovation and growth reflects our ability to deliver diverse and highly individualized services. We have a passion for providing empathetic and potentially life-saving care to help individuals heal, recover, and thrive, as well as live their lives in a manner that allows them to fully integrate in the community. The Santé Group aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusiveness. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcome, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Responsibilities

• Perform a danger assessment, a crisis assessment, an environmental assessment upon entry to the community situation and lethality assessment
• Perform a diagnostic assessment
• Perform an on-scene assessment and treatment plan
• Effectively perform crisis intervention including de-escalation, crisis planning and implementation
• Able to show knowledge of various community referrals, mental health and non-mental health
• Able to make appropriate referrals, providing follow-up accordingly to ensure linkage
• Competently make decisions about the need for an emergency petition and/or alternative psychiatric evaluation
• Able to complete an emergency petition and educate any appropriate party on the process
• Be able to address population of child, adolescent, adult, dual-diagnosis, co-occurring and elderly
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the medical implications when working with substance abuse consumers
• Work with families and involved persons to de-escalate the situation, make a crisis plan, and enlist cooperation with recommended treatment
• Provide accurate clinical information to family and involved persons related to recommendations and possibilities for treatment
• Work in a professional and collaborative way with police, fire and other community agencies when asked to do so
• Provide consultation and coordination to ER staff, if ER evaluation is necessary
• Appropriately and effectively document clinical and non-clinical information, regarding consumers, using CRS procedures
• Participate in and complete all required trainings
• Provide education in the community about the agency and all components of CRS when needed
• Able to provide clinical supervision and mentoring to interns and/or lesser licensed staff
• Able to comply with and follow all of the programs’ contractual and operational requirements, as outlined by your manager
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Social Work
• 5 years related experience
• Valid driver’s license and proof of current automobile insurance

What You’ll Get

• Salary Range: $25-30 per hour depending on licensure and experience
• Competitive benefits package including a 403(b) with company match
• Financial assistance for licensure fees
• Opportunities for career growth, training and development, flexible work schedules and shifts
• Company-wide wellness program
• The rare opportunity to make a difference in the very community that you call home

Disclaimers

• The Santé Group aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusiveness. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcome, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.
• The Santé Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
• The Santé Group participates in E-Verify.