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Child & Family Services, Inc.

Clinician (Mobile Crisis/YCCS)

Child & Family Services, Inc., New Bedford, Massachusetts, us, 02746

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Base pay range

$30.00/hr - $33.00/hr

Overview The

YCCS Clinician

is responsible for crisis stabilization, therapeutic interventions, and providing treatment modalities aimed toward the youth’s re-entry to the community. YCCS is a short-term crisis stabilization unit for children and adolescents up to age 18, providing short-term crisis stabilization, therapeutic intervention, and specialized programming in a staff-secure environment with supervision and structure. The program emphasizes restoration of functioning, leveraging resources and supports, and ensuring a timely return to the youth’s previous living environment.

The

MCI (Mobile Crisis Intervention) Clinician

provides clinical care and support to adults, youth, and their families using the wraparound process to prevent hospitalization and stabilize individuals in the community.

Equity statement:

Child and Family Services recognizes the power in Diversity and believes that Equity is a Human Right.

Schedule YCCS: Tuesday–Thursday 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm (with Friday & Saturday for Mobile Crisis); hours may vary by program needs.

$5000 full-time sign-on bonus!

($2500 after 3 months; $2500 after 6 months)

$1 per hour Language Differential

(eligible languages include Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

Compensation is determined by factors including internal equity, individual experience, and current market pay to ensure fairness and competitiveness.

Responsibilities & Essential Functions

Provide short-term, mobile, on-site, face-to-face therapeutic response to behavioral health crises; identify, assess, treat, stabilize the situation, and reduce immediate risk per risk management safety plan

Provide brief solution-focused interventions and reassess current level of need with individuals awaiting higher level of care

Post-crisis evaluation and follow-up interventions when applicable

Collaborate with staff to provide resources/referrals, support, and psychoeducation to families

Attend community-based meetings with the individual, family, and providers to assist with advocacy and safety concerns

Complete collateral contacts with the individual’s providers

Engage clients in safety planning

Provide clinical care and support to adults/youth and families to prevent hospitalization and stabilize individuals in the community

Respond quickly to emergencies; provide triage through call center

Work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends

Complete intake data forms by telephone or in person; confirm health care coverage

Conduct comprehensive mental health status exams; use admissions/screening instruments per DSM criteria

Telephone screening and consultations

Understand treatment modalities to stabilize clients at home and prevent hospitalization

Consult with program director/administrator and on-call psychiatrist prior to disposition planning

Participate in supervision, staff meetings, and training

If licensed, maintain licensure through continued education

Responsibilities & Essential Functions — YCCS

Provide information to youth and family about wellness, recovery, crisis self-management, and access to services

Conduct comprehensive assessments including suicide risk, crisis counseling, safety planning, discharge planning, and care coordination; master’s-level clinician oversees individual, group, and family therapy

Perform biopsychosocial assessments within program timeframes; may include weekends/holidays

Offer flexible hours, including weekends when needed

Identify current providers and collateral contacts for comprehensive information

Assist in youth admissions and discharges; address precipitating events

Include recommendations for clinical, social, and medical components to support safe return home, school, and community

Participate in multi-disciplinary treatment teams; develop initial treatment plans with youth and family

Review and update treatment and discharge plans at least every 24 hours

Define goals and actions to address needs and reduce stressors; support crisis prevention strategies

Coordinate with service providers and discharge planning to facilitate rapid return to the community

Participate in trainings and clinical reviews; obtain insurance authorizations as needed

Observe youths, provide interventions, and assist in de-escalation; cross-train within Acute Care Services as needed

All clinical team members share responsibility for all youths on unit

Participate in supervision and training curricula

All 24-hour/Acute Care Services staff are considered essential.

Essential staff report to work as scheduled during holidays, emergencies, or agency closures to ensure program operations.

Note:

This position may require working beyond forty hours; some shifts may require staying on shift until relief staff are available. For overnight positions, staff may stay awake for the entire shift. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Other Duties:

This description is not exhaustive; duties may change at any time with or without notice.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Mental Health Care

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