Part Time Case Manager - Tooele MCOT - Military veterans preferred

Job Type

Part-time

Description

Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOT) offer community-based intervention to individuals living in Tooele County. Outreach teams go to homes, schools, shelters, work, or anywhere else in the community where a person is experiencing a crisis.

The main objectives of mobile crisis services are to provide rapid response, assess the individual, and resolve crisis situations that involve children and adults who are presumed or known to have a behavioral disorder. Additional work includes linking people to needed services to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations, including hospitalizations that follow psychiatric ED admissions.

Job Highlights

• Shift: This position is after hours/weekends (on call) - flexible scheduling!
• Unit: Tooele
• Pay: Starting at $17.50/hour
• Rate increases based upon years of experience

*Pay increases to $19.13 once Case Manager certified, stipend for on call hours!

Essential Functions of mobile crisis services include:

• Triage/screening, including explicit screening for suicidality
• Assessment
• De-escalation/resolution
• Peer support
• Crisis Response planning and follow up
• Assess life-threatening situations, including risk of suicide and/or homicide, evaluate safety, acuity/danger, and determine medically necessary services
• Actively engage, and make physiological contact, quickly establishing non-judgmental, understanding, genuine, respectful, caring, accepting and empathic relationship
• Understand and define problems utilizing open ended questions on what, how, when, where, who continuum to obtain a clear picture of the situation
• Utilize closed ended questions that obtain information specific to the safety of the individual. This
  may include suicide prompt questions.
• Mobilize community resources in an efficient and effective manner and make plans to alleviate the
  immediate threat/risk.
• Respond with respect and effectiveness and render assistance to individuals in crisis and distress
  with appropriate regard to their cultural, racial, or ethnic background; their religion or language, their
  socioeconomic status; or other diversity factors.
• Record keeping and policy implementation
• Use of the consultative process, e.g. knowing who to call under what conditions

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Basic Life Support Health Care Provider card through American Heart Association or
  obtain within one month of hire.

Candidates must be eligible to apply for the State Crisis Worker Certification using one
of the following methods:

• (a) Individuals licensed under Utah Department of Professional Licensing for any
  health or behavioral health license.
• (b) Individuals with a minimum of bachelor's degree in a human service-related field.
• (c) Individuals certified as a Certified Peer Support Specialist for a minimum of one
  year.
• (d) Individuals certified as Case Managers for a minimum of one year; or
• (e) Individuals certified as Family Resource Facilitator for a minimum of one year.
  Working Conditions and Physical Demands Employee must be able to meet the following
  requirements with or without accommodation.

Multi-lingual candidates welcomed! Incentive for bilingual employees.

Education

• High School diploma or equivalent

Licenses/Certifications

• Case Manager certification must be obtained within 90 days
• Enrolled in ValleyAcademy for Case Managers
• CPR certification
• Valley de-escalation certification
• Driving positions require a current Driver's License, must be 21

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous behavioral health experience

Salary Description

$17.50 (DOE + CM Certification)