Youth Crisis Stabilization - In-Home Interventionist

About the Role

Advanced Behavioral Health (ABH) is seeking a Youth Crisis Stabilization Therapist to provide services to youth and their families within the DSS system. This role focuses on promoting family preservation, stabilizing the youth’s placement, and improving overall functioning through client advocacy and case monitoring throughout the treatment process. ABH is a family-centered mental health program offering a wraparound approach to treatment, specializing in Psychiatry, Off-Site Counseling Services, On-Site Therapy, and Therapeutic Mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Comply with CARF/COMAR/HIPAA/State compliance regulations.
• Comply with EMR and uphold the 48-hour documentation standard.
• Provide intensive community-based treatment for up to 6 weeks to children, adolescents, and their families to promote family preservation and stabilize the child’s placement.
• Collaborate closely with Youth Crisis Stabilization Therapists to provide services for all families within the program, including planning for discharge and follow-up care.
• Establish treatment programs by setting schedules and routines; coordinating services; arranging resources, including transportation and escort.
• Attend family involvement meetings with BCDSS.
• Make appropriate referrals to community providers to ensure comprehensive support.
• Maintain communication with referral sources and provide updates on client status as needed.
• Respect client confidentiality and adhere to all HIPAA guidelines.
• Respond promptly to communication from clients, families, referral sources, and colleagues.
• Monitor cases by verifying clients’ attendance; observing and evaluating treatments and responses; advocating for needed services and entitlements; obtaining additional resources; intervening in crises; providing personal support.
• Maintain clients’ records by reviewing case notes, logging events, and progress.
• Communicate clients’ progress by conducting weekly interdisciplinary meetings and evaluations; disseminating results and obstacles to the therapeutic team and family; identifying treatment influences.
• Prepare clients’ discharge by reviewing and amplifying discharge plans; coordinating discharge and post-discharge requirements; orienting and training family members; providing resources.
• Improve staff competence by providing educational resources; balancing work requirements with learning opportunities; evaluating the application of learning to changes in treatment results.
• Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Actively work on acquiring authorizations through Optum.
• Consistently update client authorizations in the EMR system.
• Diligently send discharge warnings and discharge clients in the EMR system and Optum.
• Complete clinical notes and other documentation within specified deadlines.
• Attend monthly department meetings to stay informed about organizational updates and best practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned as part of the Youth Crisis Stabilization Program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of clinic territory.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Valid Driver’s License and reliable transportation.
• Ability to manage, delegate, and prioritize multiple tasks with competing deadlines.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent customer service and people skills.
• Responsible, reliable, and punctual.
• Ability to be proactive and work in a fast-paced environment while ensuring clinical integrity and quality of services provided to clients and their families.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of managed care concepts and willingness to provide treatment and work within that system.
• Strong organizational and prioritizing skills.
• Ability to show sensitivity to the cultural and socioeconomic dynamics present among the service population(s).
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred.

Pay

$50,000 - $55,000 annually

Schedule

Full-Time, W2

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• Employer-Paid Basic Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Insurance Policies: Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness, Hospital Confinement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) Accruals
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Wellness Day, and Paid Birthday
• Company-Issued Laptop

Location: Baltimore