Overview

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, diversity, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA

Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOT) offer community-based intervention to individuals living in the Salt Lake County. Outreach teams go to homes, schools, shelters, work, or anywhere else in the community where a person is experiencing a crisis. A two person team is in place to support emergency department and justice system diversion. Teams will have cars and equipment to complete most of their work in the field. Teams will be managed and dispatched by an MCOT Dispatcher in real time using a GPS location program to dispatch a team to the location of the person in crisis in order to achieve the needed and best outcome.

The main objectives of mobile crisis services are to provide rapid response, assess the individual, and resolve crisis situations that involve children and adults who are presumed or known to have a behavioral disorder. Additional work includes linking people to needed services to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations, including hospitalizations that follow psychiatric ED admissions. 

Essential functions of mobile crisis services include:

• Triage/screening, including explicit screening for suicidality
• Assessment
• De-escalation/resolution
• Peer support
• Coordination with medical and behavioral health services: and
• Crisis Response planning and follow-up. 

Huntsman Mental Health Institute Crisis Website

Responsibilities

• Provides immediate response and crisis treatment to crisis victims, their families and departments requesting assistance.
• Completes diagnostic patient assessments, outlines and implements therapeutic strategies, mobilizes and convenes support systems, acquires specialized medical consultation as needed and arranges appropriate follow-up or referral for each crisis case.
• Completes clinical documentation of the patients' assessment and services in the proper hospital record.
• May participate in case conferences, patient care planning meetings and with community health agencies to facilitate continuity of care and coordination of services.
• Responds to on-call requests from police, health and service agencies, families and patients to provide consultation as needed.
• Plans and participates in staff development conferences for crisis staff.
• Assists with community outreach activities.
• Collects and analyzes utilization data to evaluate program effectiveness, quality assurance, program planning and contracted service.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Ability to perform the essential functions of the job outlined above.
• Care is appropriate to the population served.
• Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills.
• Demonstrated organizational skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of life span growth and development and the ability to assess data regarding the patient's status and provide care as described in the department's policies and procedures manual.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Licenses Required

• Basic Life Support Health Care Provider card through American Heart Association or obtain within one month of hire.
• One of the following
  • Current Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) certificate for clinical practice in the State of Utah.
  • Current license to practice as a Certified Social Worker (CSW) in the State of Utah.
  • Current license to practice as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC) in the State of Utah.
  • Current license to practice as an Associate Clinic Mental Health Counselor (ACMHC) in the State of Utah. * Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.

* Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Qualifications (Preferred)

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

• This position involves intermediate work that may exert up to 50 pounds and may consistently require lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or otherwise moving objects while providing patient care to those requiring psychiatric care.

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Physical Requirements