What are the responsibilities and job description for the Therapist, Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team (Mobile) *SIGN-ON BONUS position at AltaPointe Health Systems?
- SIGN-ON BONUS* $5,000 sign-on/retention bonus for this position. More details provided during interview process.
- Provides rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, using face-to-face or telephone response, when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator as appropriate
- Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation
- Collaborates with Access to Care as needed
- Establishes and maintains regularly scheduled, and as needed, contact with the other AltaPointe programs to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes
- Leads in the initiating and implementing the services of the Child/Adolescent Crisis Response Team
- Provides services in the community, consumer’s homes, etc.
- Effectively determines the level of response needed in crisis situations
- Provides appropriate follow-up and referrals after a crisis
- Educates families on de-escalating crisis situations, including but not limited to, safety plans
- Follows up with consumers that are in AltaPointe Children’s Outpatient Programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk.
- Travels to consumers’ homes to ensure medication compliance as needed
- Utilizes appropriate communication methods to ensure appropriate communication with individual consumers’ treatment teams
- Assist in securing emergency medical services or law enforcement services if needed
- Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer as needed
- Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis as needed
- Formulates appropriate treatment plan along with consumer and families, as appropriate
- Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing basic therapeutic models and theories according to consumer needs as stated in the treatment plan as needed
- Effectively collaborates with the treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel and outside sources in the delivery of clinical services
- Advocates on behalf of the consumer to secure community resources
- Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning or movement to a less restrictive environment
- Adheres to professional code of ethics
- Effectively demonstrates the application of child/adolescent specific competencies
- Seeks clinical supervision and consultation as needed
- Accepts and employs suggestions for improvement
- Actively works to enhance clinical skills
- Documents in a timely fashion per AltaPointe policy
- Learns and utilizes Avatar electronic health record appropriately
- Documents in detail the resolutions of crisis situations and linkage to appropriate follow up sources.
Knowledge in child/adolescent specialty, outlined below, to be attained within (6) six months of employment.
- Knowledge of psychiatric disorders in the child/adolescent population
- Basic knowledge of the nature of addiction for referral purposes
- Knowledge of cultural diversity
- Knowledge of behavior management, crisis intervention and interventions common to acute psychotic consumers, as well as, to non-violent crisis intervention practice
- Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation principles
- Knowledge of educational methods appropriate to children/adolescents with severe and persistent psychiatric disorders
- Knowledge of AltaPointe services and continuum of care
- Knowledge of appropriate services codes and billing procedures
- Knowledge of community resources