Crisis Outreach Clinical Shift Supervisor - Swing Shift, MRRCT
Listed on 2026-03-15
-
Management
Crisis Outreach Clinical Shift Supervisor - Swing Shift, MRRCT
Seattle, WA ()
• MRRCT
Apply
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Days Off: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Shift: Swing (3:00pm - 1:30am)
Shift Differential: $0.50 per hour
Insurance Benefits: Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage), Dental, Life, Long-term Disability
Other Benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan
About DESC:
DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing. Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness.
As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves almost 3,000 people each day. Our integrated service model is designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe and affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.
About Mobile Rapid Response Crisis Team (MRRCT):
The Mobile Rapid Response Crisis Team (MRRCT or “Meerkat”) at DESC, is a county funded program responsible for addressing the imminent and emergent needs of community members in crisis, in the central region of King County primarily covering the entirety of Seattle. The DESC team has been providing mobile crisis response services to the community for well over a decade.
As a nonprofit with over 45 years of experience focused on serving our community’s adults living with long histories of homelessness, behavioral health, and other disabling conditions, DESC is uniquely positioned to connect people in crisis to the important support and survival services they may need to overcome and prevent future occurrences of crisis, behavioral health distress, or other instabilities in our community.
JOB DEFINITION:
Each Crisis Outreach Shift Supervisor is responsible for ensuring their team’s timely, effective, and coordinated response into the field as they are dispatched and deployed by Crisis Connections. Shift Supervisors work alongside the staff they supervise providing real-time, on the ground supervision, coaching and guidance for how to resolve crisis situations their teams are responding to in the community. Crisis Outreach Shift Supervisors have the responsibility of implementing the systems created by the MRRCT program leadership related to proper documentation standards, implementation and adherence to DESC policies and procedures, supervision and performance management of their team, and ensuring their team members participate in all relevant training and on-going education necessary.
As part of the MRRCT each shift supervisor will at times be responsible for providing clinical and psychosocial assessments in the field and mental health evaluations to determine least restrictive alternatives to involuntary treatment.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Understand the expectations of MRRCT as described in King County’s Provider Manual.
Oversee maintenance and upkeep of employee files and records for compliance to program requirements.
Co-lead the day-to-day operations of their assigned shift.
Dispatch to outreaches as needed alongside team.
Co-host and participate in all required team meetings.
Provide 1:1 supervision with supervises 2x/ month at minimum.
Coordinate day –to-day schedule, making changes and adjustment due to staff call outs and call volume.
Maintain staffing model through managing weekly and monthly scheduling in coordination with staff requests for PTO.
Monitor for good working conditions all vehicles in MRRCT fleet, in collaboration with their Project Manager. Ensure vehicle and driver safety policies and procedures are followed by all team members. Report and respond to issues promptly.
Maintain strong knowledge of all DESC policies and procedures. Assure compliance with same.
Provide routine…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).