Therapist, Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team (Mobile)

AltaPointe Health • Mobile, AL

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About The Position

The position involves providing rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, utilizing face-to-face or telephone responses when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator. The role requires the ability to recognize elements of a crisis state and effectively deescalate or resolve situations. Collaboration with Access to Care and maintaining regular contact with other AltaPointe programs is essential to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes. The individual will lead the initiation and implementation of services for the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team, providing services in various settings including the community and consumers' homes. Responsibilities also include determining the level of response needed in crisis situations, providing follow-up and referrals, educating families on de-escalation techniques, and ensuring medication compliance. The position requires effective communication with treatment teams, securing emergency services when necessary, conducting clinical assessments, formulating treatment plans, and providing therapy. The individual will advocate for consumers, evaluate discharge planning, adhere to professional ethics, and seek clinical supervision as needed.

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 to be attained within 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.
• 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.
• 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 other AltaPointe programs.
• Leads in 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 safety plans.
• Follows up with consumers 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 communication with individual consumers' treatment teams.
• Assists 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 plans along with consumers and families.
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy according to consumer needs.
• Effectively collaborates with treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel, and outside sources.
• 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

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Master's degree