Remote Crisis Management Jobs in Utah (NOW HIRING)

Job Description:

Job Specifics

• Pay Range: $44.99 - $69.44 Exempt
• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• FTE:Full time
• Shift: Days, may include some evening coverage.
• Click learn about additional Intermountain benefits.
• This position oversees the In-patient Behavioral Health Therapist Team, Access Center/ED Crisis Workers and the Crisis Team at IMED.
• LCSW, CMHC or LMFT REQUIRED

Operational Leadership & Oversight

• Owns department operations, ensuring round-the-clock continuity of crisis services and therapy programming.
• Develops and maintains staffing models, schedules, workflows, and quality/performance metrics.
• Oversees budget, purchasing, resource utilization, and regulatory compliance.
• Ensures effective transitions between ED Crisis Work, Access Center operations, inpatient therapy teams, and partner hospitals.

Clinical Leadership

• Serves as a clinical expert for crisis intervention, assessment, and therapeutic services.
• Ensures high-quality clinical practice standards in crisis care, safety planning, evaluation, and therapy modalities.
• Supports therapy programming for Behavioral Health and Medical Detox units, ensuring consistent group, individual, and milieu therapy execution.
• Collaborates with psychiatric providers, nursing, and interdisciplinary partners to optimize patient care, safety, and throughput.\

People Leadership & Culture

• Hires, orients, develops, and retains a competent clinical workforce, supported by three Clinical Social Work Leads.
• Builds high-performing, cohesive teams and fosters a culture of psychological safety, accountability, and compassion.
• Communicates effectively with caregivers and leaders to maintain positive employee relations, retention and alignment across sites.
• Responds promptly and empathetically to patient and family concerns, taking swift action to ensure excellent patient experience.

Quality, Safety & Performance Improvement

• Monitors and improves key performance indicators such as evaluation-to-disposition times, Access Center flow, therapy coverage, and patient experience.
• Leads change management initiatives that improve access, safety, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Ensures readiness for regulatory reviews, including EMTALA expectations related to crisis and Access Center operations.
• Partners with hospital and Behavioral Health Service Line leadership to drive system-aligned improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Social Work or related field. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
• Current State Licensure as LCSW, LMFT, or CMHC
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Computer Skills, i.e., email, word processing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three Years of experience working in a mental health environment.
• One year of experience in psychiatry crisis assessment.
• Management experience.

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.
• Remain sitting or standing for extended periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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