Mobile Crisis Counselor - BA level
Center for Human Development, Chicopee, MA, United States
The Crisis Mental Health Counselor in the Adult and Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention will provide support to the master's level clinicians in providing crisis intervention or crisis stabilization services to individuals and families in evaluation and care. They help support individuals and their families, and perform a variety of supportive tasks such as assisting with the implementation of the disposition determined by the master's-level clinician.
Open 7 days per week, with the intention of offering the right service at the right time, all shifts are available. The right candidate will have a Bachelor's-level degree or significant experience in the field. They will also need to be able to pass a CORI and driving background check. There will be many optional (and some required) trainings in evidence based care including ARC, de-escalation training, TF-CBT, Zero Suicide Framework and Multi-Systemic Family Therapy.
CHD Adult Mobile Crisis Unit is seeking Bachelors Level Counselors for 1st and 2nd shift on weekdays and weekends.
Essential Functions:
- Providing support and supervision to clients
- Assisting clinician in communication with collateral contacts
- Collaboration with Mobile Crisis Intervention around admissions
- Ability to problem solve, de-escalate, and manage conflict
- Run skills group for clients during shift
- Understanding and utilize electronic health record
- Serve to model professional service delivery, where client safety and trauma-informed care is held in highest regard
- Candidates should have some experience working with youth and or in the mental health field.
- Candidates must have a Bachelor's Degree in psychology or related field.
- Prior experience in Crisis or Crisis stabilization preferred but not required.
- $21.63/hour, with additional differentials built in for 2nd shift, weekend and overnight hours (+$2/hour).
- Swing shifts available (ex: 11-7pm and 1-9pm) and 3-11pm
The Center for Human Development (CHD) provides a broad range of high-quality, community-oriented human services dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the dignity and welfare of people in need. CHD has partnered with the state of Massachusetts to increase access to urgent behavioral health care through our new outpatient behavioral health clinic and crisis services. Gateway, CHD's new Community Behavioral Health Center in Chicopee, provides:
- An outpatient behavioral health clinic
- 24/7 mobile crisis services
- Crisis stabilization for youth and adults in person and via telehealth
Our CBHC program delivers these services as an alternative to hospital emergency departments. It also offers respite, outreach, medication management, and peer-level support to ensure that your family member is taken care of on every level.
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