Therapist, Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team (Mobile)

Responsibilities

• Provides rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, using face-to-face or telephone response, when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator as appropriate.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to de-escalate or resolve the situation.
• Collaborates with Access to Care as needed.
• Establishes and maintains regularly scheduled, and as-needed, contact with other AltaPointe programs to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes.
• Leads in initiating and implementing the services of the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team.
• Provides services in the community, consumer’s homes, etc.
• Effectively determines the level of response needed in crisis situations.
• Provides appropriate follow-up and referrals after a crisis.
• Educates families on de-escalating crisis situations, including but not limited to, safety plans.
• Follows up with consumers in AltaPointe Children’s Outpatient Programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk.
• Travels to consumers’ homes to ensure medication compliance as needed.
• Utilizes appropriate communication methods to ensure communication with individual consumers’ treatment teams.
• Assists in securing emergency medical services or law enforcement services if needed.
• Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer as needed.
• Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis as needed.
• Formulates appropriate treatment plans along with consumers and families, as appropriate.
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing basic therapeutic models and theories according to consumer needs as stated in the treatment plan.
• Effectively collaborates with treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel, and outside sources in the delivery of clinical services.
• Advocates on behalf of the consumer to secure community resources.
• Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning or movement to a less restrictive environment.
• Adheres to professional code of ethics.
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child/adolescent-specific competencies.
• Seeks clinical supervision and consultation as needed.
• Accepts and employs suggestions for improvement.
• Actively works to enhance clinical skills.
• Documents in a timely fashion per AltaPointe policy.
• Learns and utilizes Avatar electronic health record appropriately.
• Documents in detail the resolutions of crisis situations and linkage to appropriate follow-up sources.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a mental health discipline with 2 or more years’ experience working with psychiatric disorders or crisis situations.
• Knowledge in child/adolescent specialty, to be attained within six months of employment.
• Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in the child/adolescent population.
• Basic knowledge of the nature of addiction for referral purposes.
• Knowledge of cultural diversity.
• Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention, and interventions common to acute psychotic consumers, as well as non-violent crisis intervention practice.
• Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation principles.
• Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to children/adolescents with severe and persistent psychiatric disorders.
• Knowledge of AltaPointe services and continuum of care.
• Knowledge of appropriate services codes and billing procedures.
• Knowledge of community resources.