Overview:
Advocates is seeking compassionate, well-rounded professionals to offer clinical support to individuals and families in crisis.
Advocates promotes a healthy work-life balance and offers many generous perks of employment and room for advancement. We are a strong-knit community that values the ideas and contributions of our staff.
The Crisis Clinician will provide comprehensive community-based emergency mental health and substance abuse services to individuals and families in crisis.
Are you ready to make a difference?
Responsibilities:
- Ensure an environment that promotes safety, recovery, and treatment.
- Provide psychiatric and substance abuse evaluation of individuals and families in crisis in community, clinic, and hospital settings.
- Provide crisis intervention services including crisis case management and short-term crisis counseling as follow-up from initial evaluation.
- Maintain linkages with specific community services by providing documented case consultations and problem resolution. Offer suggestive recommendations to clients regarding service options.
- Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of managed care and health insurance systems; provide other clinicians with managed care information and resources pertinent to the crises being managed.
- Maintain necessary documentation and records.
- Actively participate in supervision and staff meetings.
Skills/Experience:
- Master's Degree in a related counseling field, and at least two years’ experience with target population (inpatient, outpatient, residential acceptable).
- Must have working knowledge of current version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
- Excellent intake, interviewing and assessment skills. Ability to develop and maintain satisfactory working relationships with employees and providers.
- Superb interpersonal skills, enthusiasm and commitment to clients.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment that is benefitted by the independent successes of all staff members.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to develop effective documentation.
- Must hold a valid driver’s license and have access to an operational and insured vehicle.
- Demonstrated understanding of and competence in serving culturally diverse populations.
Advocates is an EOE/D/F/M/V.
How to Apply:
For more information, and to apply please visit: https://careers-advocatesinc.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchKeyword=fe...
Additional Information:
Various shifts available.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 11 2017
Active Until:
Oct 11 2017
Hiring Organization:
Advocates
industry:
Nonprofit