Jail Diversion Social Worker

Overview:

Advocates is seeking an independent, motivated, enthusiastic clinical professional to join our expanding team!

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 Jail Diversion Social Worker works in conjunction with the police department and our Psychiatric Emergency Services division to provide psychiatric and substance abuse evaluations to needing program participants.

Are you ready to make a difference?

Responsibilities:

• Accompany first-responding officers to call-out situations, promoting an ethical, structured, healthy and helpful environment.  Serve as clinical liaison to Police Department personnel.
• Provide psychiatric and substance abuse evaluation of individuals and families in crisis in police custody, 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 community services by providing documented case consultations and problem resolution, and referring individuals to appropriate services.
• 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.
• Participate in cross training of police personnel and Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES) staff.