Youth Crisis Stabilization - In-Home Interventionist

Advanced Behavioral Health, Inc. • Baltimore, MD

13d • $50,000 - $55,000

About The Position

Advanced Behavioral Health is seeking a Youth Crisis Stabilization Therapist to provide services to youth and their families within the DSS system. The role promotes family preservation, stabilizes youth placements, and improves overall functioning. The position monitors cases and provides client advocacy throughout treatment.

ABH is a family-centered mental health program that uses a wraparound approach and specializes in psychiatry, off-site counseling, on-site therapy, and therapeutic mentoring. The position provides intensive community-based treatment for up to six weeks to children, adolescents, and families, and coordinates services, resources, referrals, discharge planning, and follow-up care. The role also maintains timely clinical documentation and authorizations, collaborates with families and providers, and participates in interdisciplinary and department meetings.

The position is full-time in Baltimore, is identified as W2, and offers annual compensation of $50,000–$55,000. ABH states its commitment to diversity and equal opportunity employment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or a related discipline.
• Current CPR and First Aid certifications, maintained throughout employment.
• Knowledge of the clinic territory.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, delegate, and meet deadlines and priorities.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent customer service and people skills.
• Responsible, reliable, and punctual.
• Ability to be proactive and work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining clinical integrity and service quality.
• Ability to understand managed care concepts and willingness to provide treatment within that system.
• Strong organizational and prioritizing skills.
• Sensitivity to the cultural and socioeconomic dynamics of the populations served.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual in Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Comply with CARF, COMAR, HIPAA, and state compliance regulations.
• Use the EMR and meet the 48-hour documentation standard.
• Provide intensive community-based treatment for up to six weeks to children, adolescents, and their families to promote family preservation and stabilize placements.
• Collaborate with Youth Crisis Stabilization Therapists on services for families, discharge planning, and follow-up care.
• Establish treatment programs by setting schedules and routines, coordinating services, and arranging resources, including transportation and escort.
• Attend family involvement meetings with BCDSS.
• Make appropriate referrals to community providers to ensure comprehensive support.
• Maintain communication with referral sources and provide client-status updates as needed.
• Protect client confidentiality and adhere to HIPAA guidelines.
• Respond promptly to communications from clients, families, referral sources, and colleagues.
• Monitor cases by verifying attendance, evaluating treatment and responses, advocating for services and entitlements, obtaining resources, intervening in crises, and providing support.
• Maintain client records by reviewing case notes and logging events and progress.
• Communicate client progress through weekly interdisciplinary meetings and evaluations, sharing results and obstacles with the therapeutic team and family and identifying treatment influences.
• Prepare clients for discharge by reviewing and developing discharge plans, coordinating discharge and post-discharge requirements, orienting and training family members, and providing resources.
• Provide educational resources to improve staff competence, balance work requirements with learning opportunities, and evaluate how learning affects treatment results.
• Support department and organization goals by taking ownership of assigned work and exploring opportunities to add value.
• Acquire client authorizations through Optum and keep authorizations updated in the EMR.
• Send discharge warnings and discharge clients in the EMR and Optum systems.
• Complete clinical notes and other documentation within required deadlines.
• Attend monthly department meetings to stay informed about organizational updates and best practices.
• Perform other duties assigned as part of the Youth Crisis Stabilization Program.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• Voluntary term life insurance.
• Employer-paid basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
• Voluntary accident, cancer, critical illness, and hospital confinement insurance policies.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• PTO accruals, paid holidays, floating holiday, wellness day, and paid birthday.
• Company-issued laptop.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time