Youth Crisis Intervention Specialist

Woods Services•Evesham Township, NJ

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Legacy Treatment Services operates the State-designated Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization program for Burlington County. The program provides crisis intervention to families with a child or youth exhibiting emotional or behavioral disturbances that threaten to disrupt their current living arrangements. Trained response workers diffuse crises at the site of the crisis for up to 72 hours. They work with the family to develop an individualized crisis plan and coordinate in-home follow-up intervention services for up to eight weeks. Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Requirements

Master’s degree in social service field or bachelor’s degree in a social services field plus one year of experience of fieldwork with children.
Ability to become certified in the Crisis Assessment Tool within six months of hire.

Responsibilities

Intervenes in crisis situations through mobile outreach response.
Interviews clients, performs assessment and crisis interventions, creates individual crisis plans and provides case management by making linkage and referrals.
Reaches out to post intervention clients to perform follow-up.
Responds to crisis outreach immediately and is on-site of the crisis within one hour of receiving crisis outreach call.
On-call as needed.
Answers 24-hour hotline, as scheduled.
Works in a team approach.
The individual demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the consumer population served.
He or she must be able to assess and interpret data about the consumer’s status in order to identify each consumer’s needs and provide the appropriate care, including age-related care, needed by the consumer group.
Some weekend and evening hours are required.