Mobile Crisis Response Clinician
About The Position
Join our Mobile Crisis Response Team to provide compassionate, community-based support to adults experiencing mental health, substance use, or developmental disability-related crises. As part of a two-person mobile unit, you’ll use your clinical expertise to assess needs, de-escalate crises, and deliver tailored, trauma-informed interventions in real time. This role involves conducting risk assessments, coaching coping skills, coordinating follow-up care, and connecting individuals to appropriate resources. You’ll collaborate closely with peer support specialists, internal teams, and external providers to ensure high-quality, person-centered care that promotes safety, recovery, and resilience. Timely documentation and collaboration with internal and external partners are essential. Your work will promote recovery, resilience, and safety across the community.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or graduate level work in mental health or social work or a combination of education and professional experience in related work.
- A valid driver’s license, comprehensive auto insurance, and access to a safe, reliable vehicle is required.
- Ability to multi-task and feel comfortable engaging with people in frequently changing environments where the pace and intensity of someone’s needs are unclear.
- Proven capacity to engage effectively and empathetically with others, inspire hope, and promote recovery and resiliency.
- Proficient written and oral communication skills with the ability to accurately and professionally document work in an electronic medical records system.
- Skilled in understanding and supporting individuals experiencing a difficult life event or crisis, while maintaining appropriate boundaries and applying trauma-informed care practices.
Responsibilities
- Respond to mobile crisis calls from adults experiencing mental health, substance use, or developmental disability-related emergencies.
- Work alongside a peer support specialist to deliver personalized, high-quality crisis services.
- Assess individuals in community settings to determine crisis level, needs, support systems, and appropriate interventions.
- Use solution-focused strategies to help resolve crises, teach coping skills, and develop contingency plans.
- Provide clinical support and follow-up care using active listening to create response plans and connect individuals to ongoing services.
- Help individuals access internal and external resources, strengthen natural supports, and prepare for future challenges.
- Promote positive relationships with family, peers, and community supports, and participate in training, supervision, and data collection.
Benefits
- health
- dental
- vision
- generous retirement contribution matching
- 12.5 flexible holidays a year
- 12 paid vacation days earned in year one
- 12 paid sick days earned in year one
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
