Case Therapist Crisis Team PT $2500 Sign on

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Job Description

**This position is eligible for a $2,500 sign-on bonus**

Department: Crisis Behavioral Health (On-call requirements)

Hours: Part time, rotating

Master's Degree is required for this position

Case Therapist I will be providing services as part of the Emergency Crisis Assessment Support Program (ECASP) Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT). They will be a member of a multidisciplinary team and assist in providing crisis assessments, verbal de-escalation, engagement strategies, linkage and referral, and other services as directed. This position works closely with an Engagement Specialist during mobile crisis events who is a professional with lived experience with mental health and/or substance use. The Crisis Behavioral Health Clinician/Masters Prepared Therapist I is considered the clinician in the MCRT model.

Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) is a mobile, responding to the location of the client, intervention seeking to achieve crisis symptom reduction, stabilization, and restoration of the client to a previous level of functioning, establishing support for the client's caregivers when applicable, mitigating the crisis event. MCR activities are tailored to the needs of the client and may include short-term intervention; crisis safety planning; brief counseling; consultation with other qualified providers to assist with the client's specific crisis; referral and linkage to community services; and, if the client cannot be stabilized in the community, facilitation of a safe transition to a higher level of care.

The crisis services system is based on SAMHSA’s six core principles:

1. Addressing recovery needs

2. A significant role for persons with lived experience

3. Trauma Informed care

4. Utilization of zero suicide/suicide safer care

5. Safety and security protocols for staff and clients who are in crisis

6. A crisis response partnership with local law enforcement, dispatch, And emergency medical services. 

On-Call Shift Coverage:

This role requires on-call shift(s) per week:

On-Call Only Employees: minimum 2 shifts/week

Part-Time Employees: minimum 1 shift/week

Full-Time Employees: minimum 2 shifts/week

Shifts are as follows:

Mondays (12pm-8:30pm), Tuesdays (12pm-8:30pm), and Fridays (11:00am-3:00pm) with 1 on call shift on the Fri/Sat/Sun shifts per week.

Weekends/Holidays:   8:00am-8:00pm/8:00pm-8:00am (12-hour shifts)

Qualifications

Required:

• Master’s degree in Behavioral Health
• One year of supervised clinical experience working in a behavioral health setting
• All NM, Ben Gordon Center (WR849) employees, at point of hire and annually, are required to have a valid State of Illinois driver’s license, current auto liability insurance, and an annual driving abstract

Preferred:

• For substance abuse therapist, CADC preferred and Substance Abuse experience.
• Licensed Social Worker (LSW) or Licensed Professional Counsellor (LPC)

Additional Information

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.

Current employees and former employees that have terminated in the last year are not eligible for a sign-on bonus.