FT Mobile Crisis Response Clinician (MHP)
Company: Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc.
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 2, 2024
Job Description:
Overview: Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) is a crisis mental health
service program for youth and adults who are experiencing a
psychiatric emergency. MCR agencies provide crisis stabilization
via intensive mental health services for eligible individuals who
may need hospitalization or community based mental health care.
Basic Function: Under the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner of
the Healing Arts (LPHA), may provide some or all of the following:
clinical assessment, crisis intervention, treatment/safety
planning, and administer direct clinical interventions to children,
adolescents, adults, and their families experiencing acute and
chronic emotional/behavioral disorders. -The Mobile Crisis Response
Clinician will provide these services in a variety of settings -
primarily in homes, schools, hospitals or within a community
setting.
Reports To: Mobile Crisis Clinical Team Lead; Crisis Response
Supervisor, and/or Director of Clinical Services
Principal Duties/Responsibilities:
- Provides pre-admission psychiatric hospital screening through
the Illinois Medicaid Crisis Assessment Tool (IM-CAT), crisis
intervention, facilitates hospitalization, monitors psychiatrically
hospitalized youth/adults, and provides discharge, linkage, and
aftercare recommendations.
- Has the ability to develop and successfully provide a
diagnostic assessment consistent with the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual and International Classification of Diseases
(DSM 5-TR), or their successors.
- Develops and implements a comprehensive clinical treatment plan
for all children, adolescents, and adults referred in accordance
with agency procedures, licensing standards, and standards of
professional practice. Assure that all services are provided in
compliance with standards of informed consent, maintenance of
client rights, and standards of confidentiality.
- Maintains direct service implementation included in the
client's safety plan. Engages client in crisis intervention, and
mental health stabilization.
- Prepares and oversees case presentation for clinical review at
specified points of service, including initial assessments,
treatment planning review, treatment staffing reviews and case
closure. And provide review of services to various stakeholders
including MCO providers, Pathways Care Coordinators, etc
- Assures that all clients are linked with appropriate treatment,
educational, social, recreational, and medical resources during and
prior to completion of service.
- Maintains current knowledge regarding services to children,
adolescents, adults, and families. Participates in agency
in-service trainings as well as self and supervisor directed
advanced skill-trainings. - Maintains and adheres to current rules
and regulations pertaining to services delivered by the Illinois
Department of Human Services, Department of Children & Family
Services, Illinois Healthcare & Family Services, including the
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA), and the Office of
the Inspector General.
- Performs after-hours and shift responsibilities relative to the
needs of the client and program unit, as needed.
- Participates at an advanced level with colleagues, agency
consultants, intra and inter-agency service coordination, and
community-planning and advocacy on behalf of clients.
- Documents service provision consistent with the treatment plan
and assures that all identified services are provided in accordance
to Agency/Program, and current administrative codes for the
delivery of community mental health treatment services. Maintains
client confidentiality and adheres to guidelines defined by Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- Maintains current and accurate documentation of client services
(billable/non-billable), client scheduling, consultation, and other
events related to the maintenance of the client's electronic health
record.
- Clinical crisis interventions are centered in an empathic and
person-centered approach.
- The delivery of services to the individual in crisis and/or
family/caregivers, is driven by a customer service ethic that
values the consumer and represents the highest quality Ada S
McKinley can offer.
- Performs other duties commensurate with the responsibilities
outlined herein.
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Mental/Physical Demands: Ability to solve practical problems and
deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only
limited standardization exists. -Ability to interpret a variety of
instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk
or hear. - The employee frequently is required to sit. - The
employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. - The employee
must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally
lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. - Specific vision abilities
required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color
vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust
focus.
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Environmental Conditions: - -Staff are expected to have the ability
to work remotely from home if necessary, and with Supervisory
approval. Safety Protocols while at the office and while providing
services within the community are to be strictly adhered. -
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