Mobile Crisis Clinician

Overview

  The Mobile Crisis Intervention (MCI) Clinician will provide comprehensive community-based emergency mental health and substance use disorder services to individuals and families in crisis. The Clinician will be available to provide interventions in the community (clients' homes, school, and other community based settings), or at the Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) site by client or family request. The MCI Clinician is tasked with ensuring timely response to calls/requests for assessment and intervention and will coordinate with other CBHC services to ensure continuity of care and appropriate level of care/placement. The MCI Clinician also

• Ensures a trauma-informed environment that promotes safety and recovery.
• Provides psychiatric and substance use evaluation of individuals and families in crisis incommunity, clinic, and residential settings.
• Provides crisis intervention services including crisis case management and short-term crisis counseling as follow-up from initial evaluation.
• Maintains linkages with specific community services by providing documented caseconsultations and problem resolution.
• Offers recommendations to clients regarding service options and support in accessing.
• Performs warm hand offs to other services and care coordination entities.
• Develops and maintains a thorough knowledge of managed care and health insurance systems; provide other clinicians with managed care information and resources pertinent to the crises being managed.
• Maintains necessary documentation and records.
• Actively participates in supervision and staff meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

 

Responsibilities

Knowledge and Skills:

• Must have working knowledge of current version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.• Must possess excellent intake, interviewing and assessment skills.• Ability to develop and maintain satisfactory working relationships with employees and providers.• Superb interpersonal skills, enthusiasm, and commitment to clients.• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment that is benefitted by the independent successes of all staff members.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to develop effective documentation.• Demonstrated understanding of and competence in serving culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse populations.• Understanding of social determinants of health and commitment to crisis intervention in the context of whole-person care.

 

About Vinfen

Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

 

Our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes:

 

• A fully funded, employer-sponsored retirement plan that requires no employee contribution as well as an employee-funded 403(b) plan
• First-rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans that are open all employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more. Plus, we offer a generous employer contribution toward the cost of medical insurance!
• Employer-paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability Insurance (no cost to you!)
• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance along with the option to purchase additional, voluntary, Short-Term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
• Generous paid time off (Employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week):
• 15 days of Vacation per year
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 10 Sick Days per year
• 3 Personal Days per year
• Educational Assistance and Remission Programs
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted YMCA memberships, access to discounted movie tickets and more!

 

About Us:

 

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,500 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in over 550 sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. For more information about Vinfen, please visit www.vinfen.org/careers.

 

My Job. My Community. My Vinfen.

 

Vinfen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified ap