FT Mobile Crisis Response Clinician

AS1 - ADA S. MCKINLEY COMM SRVCS, INC.

Chicago, IL

Full-Time

Job Description

Basic Function: Under the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA), may provide some or all of the following: clinical assessment, crisis intervention, treatment/safety planning, and administer direct clinical interventions to children, adolescents, adults, and their families experiencing acute and chronic emotional/behavioral disorders. The Mobile Crisis Response Clinician will provide these services in a variety of settings - primarily in homes, schools, hospitals or within a community setting.

Reports To: Mobile Crisis Clinical Team Lead; Crisis Response Supervisor, and/or Director of Clinical Services

Principal Duties/Responsibilities:

Provides pre-admission psychiatric hospital screening through the Illinois Medicaid Crisis Assessment Tool (IM-CAT), crisis intervention, facilitates hospitalization, monitors psychiatrically hospitalized youth/adults, and provides discharge, linkage, and aftercare recommendations.
Has the ability to develop and successfully provide a diagnostic assessment consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and International Classification of Diseases (DSM 5-TR), or their successors.
Develops and implements a comprehensive clinical treatment plan for all children, adolescents, and adults referred in accordance with agency procedures, licensing standards, and standards of professional practice. Assure that all services are provided in compliance with standards of informed consent, maintenance of client rights, and standards of confidentiality.
Maintains direct service implementation included in the client’s safety plan. Engages client in crisis intervention, and mental health stabilization.
Prepares and oversees case presentation for clinical review at specified points of service, including initial assessments, treatment planning review, treatment staffing reviews and case closure. And provide review of services to various stakeholders including MCO providers, Pathways Care Coordinators, etc
Assures that all clients are linked with appropriate treatment, educational, social, recreational, and medical resources during and prior to completion of service.
Maintains current knowledge regarding services to children, adolescents, adults, and families.
Participates in agency in-service trainings as well as self and supervisor directed advanced skill-trainings.
Maintains and adheres to current rules and regulations pertaining to services delivered by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Department of Children & Family Services, Illinois Healthcare & Family Services, including the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA), and the Office of the Inspector General.
Maintains current and accurate documentation of client services (billable/non-billable), client scheduling, consultation, and other events related to the maintenance of the client’s electronic health record.
Clinical crisis interventions are centered in an empathic and person-centered approach.
The delivery of services to the individual in crisis and/or family/caregivers, is driven by a customer service ethic that values the consumer and represents the highest quality Ada S McKinley can offer.

Performs other duties commensurate with the responsibilities outlined herein.

Job Requirements:

This position requires a minimum of bachelor’s degree in counseling and guidance, rehabilitation counseling, social work, education, vocational counseling, psychology, pastoral counseling, family therapy, or related human service field. This would qualify this individual as a Mental Health Professional (MHP).
The MHP level practitioners delivering Mobile Crisis Response services must have immediate direct access to a QMHP. However, a QMHP is preferred for this position.
QMHP has a minimum of a master’s degree in a mental health field as listed above.
In addition, the individual must have successfully completed a practicum and/or internship which includes a minimum of 1,000 hours, or one year of clinical experience under a Licensed Qualified Mental Health Professional, including QMHP physician’s, licensed clinical psychologists, or registered nurses licensed under the Illinois Nursing Act of 1987 with at least one year of clinical experience in a mental health setting.
The position requires the use of a personal auto, valid driver’s license, and Motor Vehicle report acceptable to the agency’s broker and verification of insurance coverage.