Therapist, Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team (Mobile)

AltaPointe Health • Mobile, AL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves providing rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, utilizing face-to-face or telephone response. The therapist will work with the Access to Care team and other AltaPointe programs to ensure optimal dispositions and outcomes. Services will be provided in the community and consumer homes. The position requires effective determination of response levels in crisis situations, appropriate follow-up and referrals, and education for families on de-escalation techniques and safety plans. The therapist will also follow up with consumers in outpatient programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk, and travel to homes to ensure medication compliance as needed. Collaboration with treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel, and outside sources is essential. The role includes advocating for consumers to secure community resources and evaluating for discharge planning. Adherence to professional ethics and application of child/adolescent specific competencies are required. The therapist will also seek clinical supervision, accept feedback, and enhance clinical skills. Documentation must be timely and utilize the Avatar electronic health record, detailing crisis resolutions and linkages to follow-up sources.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a mental health discipline
• 2 or more years’ experience working with psychiatric disorders or crisis situations.
• Knowledge in child/adolescent specialty, outlined below, to be attained within (6) six months of employment.
• Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in the child/adolescent population
• Basic knowledge of the nature of addiction for referral purposes
• Knowledge of cultural diversity
• Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention and interventions common to acute psychotic consumers, as well as, to non-violent crisis intervention practice
• Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation principles
• Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to children/adolescents with severe and persistent psychiatric disorders
• Knowledge of AltaPointe services and continuum of care
• Knowledge of appropriate services codes and billing procedures
• Knowledge of community resources

Responsibilities

• Provides rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, using face-to-face or telephone response, when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator as appropriate
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation
• Collaborates with Access to Care as needed
• Establishes and maintains regularly scheduled, and as needed, contact with the other AltaPointe programs to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes
• Leads in the initiating and implementing the services of the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team
• Provides services in the community, consumer’s homes, etc.
• Effectively determines the level of response needed in crisis situations
• Provides appropriate follow-up and referrals after a crisis
• Educates families on de-escalating crisis situations, including but not limited to, safety plans
• Follows up with consumers that are in AltaPointe Children’s Outpatient Programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk.
• Travels to consumers’ homes to ensure medication compliance as needed
• Utilizes appropriate communication methods to ensure appropriate communication with individual consumers’ treatment teams
• Assist in securing emergency medical services or law enforcement services if needed
• Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer as needed
• Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis as needed
• Formulates appropriate treatment plan along with consumer and families, as appropriate
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing basic therapeutic models and theories according to consumer needs as stated in the treatment plan as needed
• Effectively collaborates with the treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel and outside sources in the delivery of clinical services
• Advocates on behalf of the consumer to secure community resources
• Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning or movement to a less restrictive environment
• Adheres to professional code of ethics
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child/adolescent specific competencies
• Seeks clinical supervision and consultation as needed
• Accepts and employs suggestions for improvement
• Actively works to enhance clinical skills
• Documents in a timely fashion per AltaPointe policy
• Learns and utilizes Avatar electronic health record appropriately
• Documents in detail the resolutions of crisis situations and linkage to appropriate follow up sources.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level