Clinician (Mobile Crisis Team) - Las Cruces, NM
Clinician (Mobile Crisis Team) - Las Cruces, NM
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Job Description
As a cornerstone of Las Cruces and Southern New Mexico for over four decades Families and Youth Innovation Plus has empowered countless youth and families through lifechanging resources and opportunities. Our mission is to create a safer and healthier community by focusing on children and families. Join our passionate team and be part of our continuing legacy of positive change!
Clinician (Mobile Crisis Team) Las Cruces NM
Make a Difference in Youth & Family Services!
Families and Youth Innovation Plus is looking for a Clinician to join our Mobile Crisis Team. The Clinician will work alongside a certified peer support worker as a twoperson mobile crisis team. The team will respond to dispatches for behavioral health crises in Doa Ana County to deliver timely support at the location of the crisis. The clinician will provide immediate onsite mental health assessment intervention and regulatory services to individuals experiencing psychological distress. The intention of the mobile crisis team is to provide appropriate care for the nature of the crisis provide transportation to definitive care if needed and connect individuals to followup services.
What Youll Do:
- Respond promptly to crisis calls and conduct onsite risk assessments
- Provide traumainformed service deescalation and crisis intervention
- Develop safety plans and coordinate appropriate level of care
- Facilitate warm handoffs to higher level of care or ongoing care navigation
- Document all clinical interventions according to program standards
- Collaborate with emergency services mental health facilities and community providers
What You Need:
- Masters degree in Social Work Counseling Psychology or related behavioral health field
- Current professional license or licenseeligible status in state of practice
- 2 years experience in crisis services emergency psychiatry or similar settings
- Experience conducting risk assessments and crisis intervention
- Knowledge of psychiatric conditions and crisis modalities
- Strong interpersonal and communication abilities
- Training in suicide prevention and traumainformed care
- Familiarity with community resources and referral networks
- Experience working with both adults and youth in crisis
- Bilingual preferred
We Offer:
- Competitive salary
- Compensation and Benefits Compensation is commensurate with experience. Benefits include health dental life insurance short term and long term disability supplement plans
- 403(b) PTO and 14 paid holidays
- Opportunity to make real community impact
Physical and Mental Requirements:
- Willingness to work nontraditional hours to potentially include weekends
- Strong emotional resilience and stress management skills
- Capacity to make rapid sound clinical judgments
- Considerable physical activity; possible heavy lifting pushing or pulling required of objects up to 2030 pounds
- Ability to sit in a vehicle for extended periods of time often up to 2 hours
Equal Opportunity Employer Reasonable accommodations available
Employment Type
Full-Time
