Emergency Services Mobile Crisis Clinician

Seacoast Mental Health Center•Portsmouth, NH

About The Position

Seacoast Mental Health Center is seeking a Mobile Crisis Clinician to join its Emergency Services Team. The organization provides services to children, adolescents, adults, and families in the eastern half of Rockingham County. The clinician provides crisis intervention, assessment, and stabilization by phone, in person, or via telehealth, in clients’ homes, community settings, affiliated hospitals, or other appropriate locations. Services may include short-term crisis counseling and case management, and may be delivered during agency open hours or after hours. The clinician works with youth, adults, and geriatric populations, collaborating with Emergency Services colleagues, multidisciplinary agency staff, hospital personnel, and community organizations to manage acute behavioral crises and support transitions to ongoing care.

Requirements

Master’s degree in a clinically related mental health discipline.
Experience in clinical diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.
Ability to form rapid rapport and interact with a broad range of clients, including people with severe and chronic conditions.
Ability to work with community agencies and organizations and multidisciplinary staff.
40-hour crisis response training that includes concepts and topics in accordance with the National Guidelines for Crisis Care Best Practice Toolkit.
Knowledge or training in the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale and Safety Planning.

Nice To Haves

CPR and First Aid training are recommended.
Proficiency in at least one evidence-based clinical modality.

Responsibilities

Provide 24-hour crisis intervention and stabilization to individuals and families to prevent or reduce suicide risk, serious debilitation, violent behavior, and the need for long-term hospitalization.
Collaborate with Emergency Services team members and multidisciplinary agency staff in accordance with team and agency policies and procedures, including coordinating seamless transitions with Emergency Services clinicians embedded at Exeter Hospital.
Provide crisis intervention, assessment, and stabilization by phone, in person, or via telehealth in homes, community settings, affiliated hospitals, or other appropriate settings, during agency open hours and/or after hours.
Provide short-term crisis counseling and case management when needed.
Assess clients’ crisis states and immediate needs, urgency, and appropriate intervention in light of suicide risk, potential violence, coping, mental status, support systems, medication needs, crisis housing, brief hospitalization, IEA, or outpatient treatment referrals.
Manage the acute phase of behavioral crises involving youth, adults, and geriatric clients.
Develop and initiate plans of action independently and/or in consultation with clients, psychiatrists, case managers, and other staff as appropriate.
Communicate crisis status, interventions, follow-up needs, and treatment planning information to appropriate staff; develop and use Emergency Services treatment plans when necessary.
Perform case management and psychotherapy functions during crisis stabilization, emphasizing return to the client’s previous baseline and connections to agency or community services.
Consult with and/or evaluate patients with psychiatric problems alongside Exeter Hospital Emergency Room physicians and staff; provide telephone consultations to Portsmouth Regional Hospital Emergency Room when requested for Seacoast clients in crisis.
Provide emergency consultation, information, and evaluation to community agencies and organizations, including police, jails, and foster homes; this may include out-of-catchment interactions as determined by the state crisis call center.