Mental Health Therapist/ Clinical Supervisor - Mobile Crisis Response

NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER • Brainerd, MN

2d • $74,000 - $79,000

About The Position

Northern Pines Mental Health Center is seeking a Mental Health Professional to join its Mobile Crisis Outreach team. The position is based in Brainerd, Minnesota, and operates throughout the six-county Region 5 service area: Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena counties. The role triages crisis calls, conducts mental health assessments to evaluate immediate needs and crisis situations, and provides ongoing consultation to team members. Mobile Crisis Outreach staff work in teams with rotating shifts. Some holidays and on-call shifts per month are required.

The position provides crisis assessments, interventions, and stabilization services. Assessments are immediate, face-to-face evaluations to identify emergency-service needs, determine whether behavior is a serious deviation from the recipient’s baseline caused by a mental health crisis or emergency, and provide immediate relief. Crisis interventions are short-term, intensive, face-to-face services intended to help recipients cope with stressors, use available resources, avoid unnecessary hospitalization or loss of independent living, develop action plans, and begin returning to their baseline functioning.

The therapist develops and updates culturally appropriate crisis intervention treatment plans, refers clients to additional services, and provides stabilization services following intervention. Stabilization may include supportive counseling, skills training, collaboration with community providers, consideration of further assessments and referrals, and education and support for the recipient’s people network.

The stated salary range is $74,000–$79,000 annually. Travel is a function of the position.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a behavioral sciences field.
• Independent provider license in Minnesota: LICSW, LMFT, LP, Psychiatric Nurse, or LPCC.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle and a valid driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation to staff regarding crisis situations.
• Train staff regarding assessments in crisis situations.
• Conduct immediate, face-to-face crisis assessments to identify emergency-service needs, assess deviations from baseline functioning, and provide immediate intervention to relieve distress.
• Determine the need for crisis intervention services or referrals to other resources based on crisis assessments.
• Provide prompt, face-to-face, short-term, intensive crisis interventions to help recipients cope with stressors, use resources, avoid unnecessary hospitalization or loss of independent living, develop action plans, and return toward baseline functioning.
• Develop culturally appropriate crisis intervention treatment plans with clients and update them as necessary.
• Refer clients to different or additional mental health services.
• Provide crisis stabilization services, including considering the assessment and intervention plan, identifying further assessment and referral needs, and updating stabilization plans.
• Provide supportive counseling and skills training.
• Collaborate with other service providers in the community.
• Provide education regarding mental illness and support to recipients’ people networks.

Benefits

• Health, dental, disability, and life insurance, with additional voluntary options for spousal life, short-term disability, accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness plans.
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid time off: full-time employees earn 19 days (152 hours) per year during years 1–3, with increases based on longevity.
• Nine observed holidays per year.
• Bereavement pay.
• Travel reimbursement.
• Support for time off to promote work/life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time