Mobile Crisis Clinician - Full Time

Do you have crisis intervention experience? Do you want to work as part of a police-based team? Come join our team of compassionate and experienced staff at Baltimore County Crisis Response! **Who We Are:** Santé is a dynamic and leading community-based behavioral health services organization. Our job is to offer rapid response and compassionate care to individuals or groups through comprehensive mental health services. Our track record of innovation and growth reflects our ability to deliver diverse and highly individualized services. We have a passion for providing empathetic and potentially life-saving care to help individuals heal, recover, and thrive. Santé is seeking **Full-time** **Mobile Crisis Clinicians** to join our frontline crisis intervention team in **Timonium, MD**. As a Mobile Crisis Specialist, you will work as part of a police-based team, which includes partnering with a police officer to respond to behavioral health crises in the community. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with community partners, families, and other involved parties. **What You’ll Do:** - Perform assessments and crisis intervention, including de-escalation, crisis planning, implementation, and treatment plans. - Effectively communicate clients’ needs while making internal agency or community referrals. - Perform a diagnostic assessment - Perform an on-scene assessment and treatment plan - Educate individuals about mental health, substance abuse, available community resources, and the agency’s services. - Complete documentation in an accurate and thorough manner. - Competently make decisions about the need for an emergency petition and/or alternative psychiatric evaluation - Ability to complete an emergency petition and educate any appropriate party on the process - Be able to address population of child, adolescent, adult, dual-diagnosis, co-occurring and elderly - Demonstrate a working knowledge of the medical implications when working with substance abuse consumers - Work with families and involved persons to de-escalate the situation, make a crisis plan, and enlist cooperation with recommended treatment - Provide accurate clinical information to family and involved persons related to recommendations and possibilities for treatment - Work in a professional and collaborative way with police, fire and other community agencies when asked to do so. - Provide consultation and coordination to ER staff, if ER evaluation is necessary - Appropriately and effectively document clinical and non-clinical information, regarding consumers, using CRS procedures - Participate in and complete all required trainings - Provide education in the community about the agency and all components of CRS when needed - Check work e-mail and EMR according to agency protocol - Abide by all Federal, State and local confidentiality regulations (ie: HIPAA, 42CFR Part 2, etc) - Comply with all mandatory reporting and duty to warn, according to Federal, State and local regulations **What We Require:** - **Master’s Degree in Counseling, Social Work, or related field of study.** - **Current licensure in the State of Maryland (LMSW, LGPC, LCSW-C, or LCPC).** - A valid driver’s license and current automobile insurance. - You will be required to work one (1) summer and one (1) winter holiday per year. - You will also be required to attend the Mandatory Safety Training Day once a year, which you will be given ample notice of in order to plan appropriately. - Be reminded that the end of the work day may go beyond your scheduled shift in the event you are on a call that that extends past the end of shift. - Ability to work a shift during the week both **morning (6am to 2pm or 7am to 3pm) and evening shifts (2pm to 10pm or 3pm to 11pm)** with some weekends. **What You’ll Get:** - **Pay Range**: **$34.86 - $38.46 per hour**if working a daytime shift. - Pay differential for night shift - Salary is dependent on licensure and experience. - **Work Schedule:** Alternati…