With over 30 years in business, we have built a reputation for referring highly qualified professionals for rewarding short and long-term independent contract opportunities.
Our Client is seeking motivated and reliable professionals to work as Crisis Clinician .
The Crisis Mobile Response Clinician will triage incoming behavioral health/substance use crisis calls and deploy to community settings (i.e., family home, school, shelter, library, etc.) as needed in order to effectively and efficiently manage consumers in crisis
SUMMARY OF CLIENT'S DESCRIPTION OF THIS OPPORTUNITY
*Demonstrates ability to identify severity of illness by assessing symptom acuity, functional abilities, and risk factors.
*Demonstrates ability to accurately assess psychiatric symptomatology and risk of harm to self or others.
*Demonstrates ability to assess, complete, and document an accurate behavioral health diagnostic impression diagnosis based on the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and knowledge of corresponding ICD codes, and treatment recommendations. This includes diagnoses related to mental illness (or serious emotional disturbance), intellectual disabilities/cognitive impairments, substance use/abuse/dependence for all ages.
*Demonstrates ability to develop an evaluation of what is causing a crisis situation and develop a plan of safety, which includes alternative resources to hospitalization.
*Demonstrates ability to perform pre-screening for admissions for psychiatric hospitalization.
*Knowledgeable about the special needs when working with people diagnosed with developmental disability, mental illness, and children with serious emotional disturbance.
*Demonstrates knowledge of health insurance benefits.
CLIENT'S REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
*Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology or Counseling with current licensure.
*Two years previous experience with Mentally Ill or Co-Occurring (MI/Substance Abuse) populations preferred. One year experience with children with SED and adults/children with a developmental disability preferred.
DTG'S ADVANTAGES
* Establish a relationship with one of the nation's largest referral agencies for behavioral-health.
* Compensated weekly.
* Increase or decrease your schedule at your discretion: choose opportunities that best fit your schedule.
* Ability to grow professionally.