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Behavioral Health Intervention Clinician

Employer
Careerbuilder-US
Location
Baltimore, MD
Closing date
Oct 27, 2021

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Industry
Healthcare
Function
Accountant, IT
Hours
Full Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
General Summary/Purpose: Our client strives to ensure a safe and supportive environment for all who live, work, or visit our campus. While we currently provide a range of mental health crisis services to our students, faculty, and staff, this new initiative will benefit anyone experiencing a mental health crisis in and around our Baltimore campuses. Honoring the commitment to delivering comprehensive behavioral health services while also implementing public safety best practices, our client is launching a Behavioral Health Crisis Support Program (BHCSP) that includes, among the range of services provide, in-house, mobile crisis response to serve our community of students, faculty, staff, and neighbors. Behavioral health intervention clinicians and security officers will partner in responding to calls (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days out of the year) to assist individuals experiencing behavioral health crises. This is an innovative new program, modeled after successful efforts in major cities, but one of the first in a university setting in the United States. The Student Health and Well-Being (SHWB) practice group supports wellness, primary care and mental health services for JHU students and learners across all nine schools within the University. The incumbent reports to the SHWB, Student Resource Center clinical manager who manages a range mental health initiatives including mobile crisis, assessment, case management and referral as well as serving as subject matter experts for cross departmental outreach and education. While this is the primary supervisory relationship, the clinical manager works closely with the campus safety & security to oversee day-to-day operations and BHCSP outcomes. Essential Job Functions: - The Behavioral Health Intervention Clinician provides community-based, face-to-face, rapid response to students, staff, faculty, and neighbors who present with a behavioral health concern or are in an active state of crisis which includes wellness checks for students. - The Behavioral Health Intervention Clinician will conduct urgent mental health assessments and will work closely with the campus safety & security, as part of a mobile crisis team, to conduct interventions in response to calls received through campus safety & security dispatch or communications directly to the Behavioral Health Crisis Support Program. Services are provided on campuses, residence halls, in off-campus housing, and in neighborhoods within campus security patrol boundaries. - Travel will be required, including possible accompaniment to area hospitals or other locations. - The qualified candidate will collaborate with campus safety & security to respond to the needs of those in crisis. - Conducts rounds with campus safety & security to develop relationship with community members and to maintain knowledge of service areas. - Conduct assessment of the immediate needs of the reported concern, with primary emphasis on safety of the overall environment, the individual of concern and those around them, - Determine who will take the lead in intervening and to problem solve and adjust role and/or interventions throughout as needed, - Conduct clinical assessment and determine level of risk to the individual and/or others noting contributing environmental, medical, psychiatric, and/or interpersonal factors, - Assist with deescalating the concern or crisis through the provision of support, - Identify necessary resources available to the individual in the current setting to resolve the crisis, - Engage internal and/or community resources that may be accessed to resolve the crisis, and - Assist in the arrangement for transportation to emergency and crisis facilities, when needed, based upon the safety needs of the individual. - Monitor the status of students and communicate with health care provider(s), other supports, and university leadership throughout their stabilization process; provide ongoing case management services to determine if the student is following clinical recommendations; and consult with internal and external resources/providers to address any concerns. - Partner with university Crisis Assessment Risk Evaluation Team (CARE) teams to discuss potential students in crisis as well as coordinate follow-up care. - In the case of a staff, faculty or neighbor, triage and support intervention and enlist appropriate internal or community resource to assume response. - Provide emotional, debriefing, and resource support, or secure those supports, for bystanders and others impacted by critical incidents. This may include family, roommates, friends, targets, other first responders, and the larger community. - Conduct student evaluations for fitness and return to study. - Assist with university-wide student threat assessment process. - Participate in outreach and educational activities including tablings and community meetings and participate on JHU committees. - Remain up to date regarding literature and research on community and student behavioral health and supportive strategies and interventions. Share expertise and provides in-service trainings. - Participate in program evaluation through follow-up with students receiving services, surveys, and in partnership with internal and/or third-party evaluators. Job Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory): - Master's degree in clinical counseling, counseling psychology, or clinical social work - 5 years' clinical case management experience in the delivery of mental healthcare in a setting in which both trauma-informed care and crisis assessment - Experience assessing the college-age population and awareness of mental health issues common to the population is preferred - Maryland license required - DC license or ability to obtain a DC license is desirable - Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the delivery of behavioral health crisis intervention services including assessment, stabilization skills, and related case management responsibilities including accessing referral resources within an institution or community - Personal vehicle is required for this position for prompt response to on-call activity. On-call work related travel expenses will be reimbursed. Special Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: - Excellent interpersonal, listening, verbal and written communication skills - Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with colleagues on a team, and with campus departments and university and community groups - Demonstrated understanding of the principles of diversity, equity and anti-oppression concepts, especially as they apply to higher education - Proven ability to relate effectively to a wide variety of people of various ages and backgrounds student developmental needs, nationality, culture, faith/religion, language difference, ability differences, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression - Understanding and appreciation of Baltimore communities and culture - Possess the ability to work with a wide range of individuals presenting behavioral health concerns with special expertise and experience working with those in crisis - Knowledge of DSM-V diagnosis and familiarity with full range of treatment options and mental health service delivery systems - Familiarity with research on mental health needs of college students including suicide prevention and trauma informed care - Knowledge of community mental health resources and how to make health plan triage referrals - Ability to consult with leadership on high-risk clients

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