Job Description

Clinician Licensed LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, Lic PsyD Mobile Crisis Response Team 396


San Diego | California | United States


San Diego's NEW Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT)Helping People in Crisis: Mental Health Support Without Uniformed Law Enforcement
Program Overview


Telecare San Diego's newest behavioral health program is a 24/7, non-law enforcement, Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) serving individuals of all ages experiencing mental health crisis utilizing recovery principles. We will exist to respond to crisis with the goal of safety for all. Our community has recognized a need to respond to mental health crisis and those under the influence from a posture of compassion, patience, and recovery. This program collaborates and accepts referrals from the San Diego Access and Crisis Line (ACL) and law enforcement. San Diego's MCRT will offer crisis triage and management, risk assessment, in-person intervention, and case management. Each team will respond to calls from the mobile office van to provide services directly in the field in the following San Diego Regions: Central, East, South, North Central and North Inland.


Passion and Mindset Set Us Apart


We are building a multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-generational, and inclusive team that shares in our core values of respect and dignity towards all, whose make up reflects the communities we serve.


We will redefine the way we respond to our community members and their families when they are vulnerable and suffering from a mental health crisis and/or drug/alcohol use. Ready to make a difference?


Employment Status: Full Time Position; There will be 3 shifts 7-days a week, AM, PM and NOC. We are looking for all shifts and for individuals wanting to work short hour on the weekend.


This position will lead the mobile crisis response teams in the vans for the entire shift.


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS


• Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values and beliefs in everyday language and contact with internal and external stakeholders.


• As part of the MCRT is dispatched and responds to emergency / crisis events
• Provides onsite support to persons in crisis
• Collaborates with other emergency response teams as needed to provide onsite crisis support including transporting members
• Provides telephone screening, triage and referral services to persons in crisis.
• Engages and establishes a therapeutic relationship with client callers.
• Provides accurate diagnostic consultation to team members, as requested.
• Provides consultation/interpretation to clients and their families regarding service option
• Collaborates with Program Director/Administrator to ensure program offers individuals served increasing opportunities for employment, social integration and independent living
• Maintains and participates actively in program activities
• Participates in the program evaluation process, utilizing results to identify needs, establish goals and directions for future planning
• Provides direction on daily activities to mobile crisis response team
• Attends and oversees the monthly Utilization Review process
• Oversees all referrals to the Program
• Provides safe, effective and efficient implementation of direct care in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of care; provides direct services to members served, families and community supports of members served
• Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with members served
• Attends and participates in primary therapy, community meetings, family therapy, and groups
• Participates as a team member and provides input via reporting observations, concerns and asking appropriate questions
• Reviews and implements members served service plans
• Actively facilitates and participates in team meetings and service planning meetings
• Provides leadership in facilitating the team process
• Provides 24 on-call (cell phone) coverage as needed
• Provides education/training to other team members as necessary
• Assures that members served know and understand their legal status and rights
• Provides weekend/on-call service/back-up and crisis intervention
• Completes the Monthly Status Report to the County
• Ensures all clinical issues are addressed around hospitalization of members served
• Assists with Service Coordination Plan, including:


• Making appropriate referrals for placement, case management and aftercare services, as assigned.
• Coordinating with the Office Coordinator to assure that members served benefits and finance are in order, as assigned
• Developing and maintaining an awareness of community resources


• Acts as Custodian of Records; determining best practices re confidentiality etc.
• Recommends and establishes general policies, structures and controls


• If employed at Inpatient program, must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training
• If employed at Outpatient program, must evade members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training


Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at the discretion of management.


SKILLS


• Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Thorough understanding of member rights
• Knowledge of persistent mental illness and basic medical and psychiatric terminology
• Understanding of issues pertaining to older adults


QUALIFICATIONS


Required:


• A Master's Degree in Social Work or related field
• Two (2) years post masters experience providing crisis response with mentally ill individuals
• Current licensure or registration as an LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, etc.
• Certified to perform W & I 5150 Holds in the field
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Sensitivity to multi-cultural populations and their experiences and perspectives.
• Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment
• All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification. If the position requires driving, valid driver's license, a motor vehicle clearance, and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory, contractual, or local requirements may apply.


POSITION SUMMARY


The Clinician provides mental health support services to members served and their families at the program. The Clinician also assists in the coordination of all mental health support services provided by the Team. This includes coordinating and collaborating with team members and outside agencies such as, the Conservator's Office, Public Guardian's Office, Probation Department, County Behavioral Health Services, and housing and inpatient providers. As part of the San Diego Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) the Clinician provides onsite crisis response and collaborates as needed with other emergency response teams. The Clinician may also provide telephone screening, triage and referral services and assures that every consumer caller receives timely response to their call, accurate assessments, appropriate interventions and professional attention.


PHYSICAL DEMANDS


The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.


The employee is occasionally required to sit, stand, walk, reach, bend, squat, kneel and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently twist and do simple and power grasping. The position requires manual deviation, repetition and dexterity and to occasionally drive as well as Hazardous Exposure (Blood Borne Pathogens, Hospital Waste, Chemical & Infectious).


EOE AA M/F/V/Disability


Equal Opportunity Employer Description
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)


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