Therapist - Crisis Center; Part-time or PRN

Overview

Position Title: Therapist - Crisis Center (Part-time or PRN)

Location: Santa Fe, NM

Description:
New Mexico Solutions - Santa Fe Crisis Triage Center, Afternoon/Evening (until 8pm), Part-time and PRN Available. Crisis Team members are responsible for providing immediate intervention and evaluation, support towards crisis stabilization, navigation to community partner agencies, harm reduction resources, therapeutic services and resources, as well as next day follow-up and appropriate transition/discharge.

Essential Functions:

• Participates as an active treatment team member providing crisis services, modeling effective crisis services, and assisting other staff in learning to provide crisis services to individuals with mental health and substance use issues as evidenced by:
• Engaging and developing rapport with individuals in crisis situations presenting with a variety of symptoms/presentations.
• Recognizing and assessing client risk of danger to self or others and providing appropriate responses to the situation.
• De-escalating immediate crisis, assessing client needs, and developing treatment plans to address those needs.
• Developing safety and after care plans to reduce future crisis.
• Coordinating and collaborating with community resources to meet client needs.
• Coordinating and participating in on-call coverage and responding to on-call incidents in a manner that meets contract requirements and timelines.
• Providing training, modeling, and coaching related to case management and crisis support to new staff members.
• Providing support to supervisor(s) in coordinating activities of case managers to ensure effective coverage and service delivery for clients.
• Acting as agency contact for community partners (when assigned) to promote effective coordination of care.

• Service Team Approach:
  Participates as an active treatment team member serving individuals with mental health and substance use issues as evidenced by:
• Recognizing and identifying symptoms of mental illness and substance use.
• Participating as a member of a multi-disciplinary team approach to treatment and recovery.

• Outreach, Engagement, Follow-Up:
  Provides comprehensive outreach, engagement, and follow up to assigned individuals as evidenced by:
• Providing comprehensive outreach and follow up to all assigned individuals including contact attempts over the phone, in-person, in the home etc.
• Engaging and developing rapport with individuals presenting with a variety of symptoms/presentations.

• Cultural Competence and Diversity:
  Provides culturally appropriate services to diverse populations as evidenced by:
• Providing services that are person-centered.
• Providing services that are culturally relevant.
• Providing a non-judgmental, open, and welcoming approach to diverse populations.

• Documentation:
  Completed documentation that meets identified expectations as evidenced by:
• Documenting all services provided within expected time frames.
• Documenting all services provided in a manner that meets service definitions, regulatory standards, and agency expectations.
• Documenting all services provided in a manner that is person-centered and meets quality improvement goals.

• Efficiency and Productivity:
  Consistently meeting established productivity standards as evidenced by:
• Demonstrating excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrating effective use of time management techniques.
• Demonstrating the use of effective engagement skills.
• Consistently meeting established productivity standards.

• Staff Development
  
  Activities:
  
  Participates in staff development activities to increase skills and professional development as evidenced by:
• Participating in and completing all required trainings in an accurate and timely manner.
• Identifying and requesting training or skill enhancement opportunities.
• Engaging in cross-training activities with other team members.
• Attending and participating in required meetings and supervision sessions and implementing supervisory feedback in work performance.
• Demonstrates the ability to apply supervisory recommendations to work performance.

Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in human services or health-related field (including, but not…