Mobile Crisis ResponseSASS Counselor
Mobile Crisis ResponseSASS Counselor
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06-04-2025
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06-04-2025
Job Description
Mobile Crisis Response (MCR/SASS) Counselor
You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center our staff come together with volunteers community partners and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs older adult services and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate lifes challenges through personalized prevention intervention treatment and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger healthier communities.
Job Scope:Works with families and community based systems to provide inhome services including crisis assessment treatment planning case management and intensive family based services. Actively contribute as a team member with oncall crisis response shifts to provide assessment maintain a caseload for linking clients to longterm services and maintain a caseload of clients for individual therapy. Clients served are predominately ages 624 but can range from age 3 through the lifespan. On callshifts run on a 24/7 basis and include evening weekend and holiday hours. Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
Kenneth Young Center offers arobust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market and offers all fulltime employees the following:
- 403(b) plan with organizational matching
- Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois BCBS)
- Dental (BCBS) and Vision Insurance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
- Long Term and Short Term Disability (BCBS) no cost to employee
- Flexible Spending Account (with annual rollover)
- Basic life insurance 50k) paid forby the organization and option for additional voluntary coverage for self spouse or dependents (BCBS)
- Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
- Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
- Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
To further promote an active and healthy work/ life balanceKYCalso offers agenerous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.
- 4weeks of Paid Time Off (With increases based on seniority)
- 8 Paid OrganizationWide Holidays
- 3Personal Floating Holidays annually
Clinical Responsibilities
- Provide a full range of crisis screening assessment and support services to a caseload of clients and their families. These services will include the following:
- Crisis screenings resulting in hospitalization or deflection.
- Attending all ongoing hospital staffings and residential placement meetings
- Developing a plan to stabilize a client without the use of hospitalization if hospitalization is not necessary
- Case management services
- Linkage back to substitute care provider
- Linkage to community resources as needed
- Ongoing support to help a client maintain access to established services
- Posthospitalization services which includes gathering information for a mental health assessment and individualized treatment plan
- Participate as a responsible crisis team member to maintain continuous oncall coverage and to accomplish other team tasks goals and responsibilities
- Manage a caseload that reflects the MCR/ SASS program demands
- Provide timely and accurate assessments of incoming calls with clinically appropriate dispositions.
- Determine the need for additional services based on the assessment and facilitate linkage
Education and Experience
- BachelorsDegreefrom an accredited College or University in Social Work Psychology or closely related disciplineminimum of a high school diploma or GED and 5 years supervised clinical experience in mental health or human services
- Masters Degree from an accredited College or University in Social Work Psychology or closely related discipline preferred
- Lower level licensure preferred
- Bilingualpreferred
- One to two years experience working with children and adolescents.
- Valid drivers license proof of insurance and reliable transportation required.
- Computer skills required.
Schedule / Driving Responsibilities
- Exempt Fulltime 37.5 hour work week
- Must work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served including rotating direct oncall responsibilities which includes evening weekend and holiday hours.
- While performing the duties of this job the employee regularly works in an office setting.
- Roughly one half of the employees time will be spent in the community driving to and from hospital sites to perform crisis screenings.
Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Employment Type
Full Time
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