Mobile Crisis Mental Health Assistant

Starting Compensation: $40288.99 to $46325.22 per year based on experience.

Employee Signing Incentive for Regular Full-Time Employees:

Livingston County Community Mental Health Authority is excited to offer an Employee Signing Incentive to eligible new hires. Regular full-time employees will receive $2000 less applicable taxes. More information on terms and conditions will be made available at the time an offer of employment is made.

About Us:

Livingston County Community Mental Health is a public mental health services provider located in Howell Michigan between Detroit and Lansing. We are an agency joined by the shared vision to create a healthy and rewarding life in the community for everyone. Our team approach works together to serve individuals with a wide array of needs in order to create individualized pathways to wellness resilience recovery and self-determination.

Working for Us: (Regular Full-time Only)

Join our team and enjoy a generous benefits package effective on Day 1 including a 5% employer retirement contribution and voluntary 457(b) salary deferment plan. We provide employer-paid 2X salary life insurance long-term disability plus generous contributions to BCBS medical and Delta Dental. Find rewarding work supporting Livingston County residents alongside dedicated colleagues.

Our comprehensive benefit plan also includes vision coverage short-term disability accident coverage legal and identity theft programs and voluntary life insurance. Take advantage of our Spring Health Mental Health Wellness program offering free counseling life coaches and self-care tools. Generous paid time off with vacation sick personal 13 holidays (4 floating) and more choices through our Cafeteria Benefit plan.

We prioritize your overall well-being through robust financial benefits mental health support and work-life balance offerings. Become part of our mission while enjoying a valuable total rewards package. All while enjoying rewarding work supporting Livingston County residents alongside dedicated colleagues.

The Mobile Crisis Mental Health Assistant will look forward to:

Meaningful rewarding work with opportunities to develop your clinical skills through regular supervision. Join a supportive diverse team allowing you to collaborate with experienced colleagues. Our positive environment values diversity and provides avenues to take on special projects aligning with your interests. Enjoy potential for career advancement plus an efficient electronic health record system.

Role:

Mobile Crisis Mental Health Assistant

Rapid Response to Mental Health Crises:

• Participates in mobile crisis team responses to calls from individuals families law enforcement healthcare providers or crisis hotlines (e.g. 988 in the U.S.).
• Provides peer-based emotional support and reassurance to individuals experiencing mental health crises.

De-escalation and Stabilization:

• Uses crisis intervention techniques to calm individuals and resolve crises on-site whenever possible.
• Aims to avoid hospitalization or police involvement unless absolutely necessary.

Connection to Resources:

• Links individuals with community mental health services housing programs addiction treatment and social services.
• May provide transportation to crisis stabilization centers or hospitals if required.

Collaboration with First Responders:

• Works alongside police EMS or fire departments when handling calls involving mental health issues on a Mobile Crisis Team.

Follow-Up Support:

• Provides short-term follow-up to ensure individuals engage with recommended services.
• Coordinates care with case managers therapists or peer support specialists.

Consult with a masters or bachelors level crisis professional as needed.

Other Job Requirements:

Maintains a close rapport with family members or guardians of consumers.

Assists the Program Coordinator and Program Director in evaluating the effectiveness of current services and makes suggestions for improvements.

May arrange for transportation so that staff can accompany consumers and encourage participation in their own community.

Attends required CMH trainings.

Requirements to join us:

Candidates must be committed to our shared values and commitment to community care including clinical excellence community inclusion community benefit innovation integrated care and improvement. Our collaborative approach to treatment requires strong teaming skills. This is a dynamic team-oriented position with great opportunities to grow.

Job Specific Requirements:

This position will be primarily working afternoons/evenings and some weekend hours. You will be working with all ages and mental health/substance abuse diagnoses in crisis as a member of a team. You will perform supportive tasks in the care training safety and general well-being of mental health consumers. Implementing established treatment plans and assisting consumers in areas such as self-motivation teaching of basic self-help tasks independent living skills leisure activities socialization and crisis intervention.

You will need to be able to drive work collaboratively with first responders the emergency room and other CMH staff as a team member.

Qualifications and Experience:

Employment Qualifications:

Education: Possession of a high school diploma or equivalent.

Experience: Experience working in a program serving children adults and families with mental health or intellectual/developmental disabilities is preferred. Experience in crisis intervention or mental health crisis teams is highly desirable.

Other Requirements: Possession of a Valid Michigan drivers license.

The qualifications listed above are intended to represent the minimum skills and experience levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in this job description. The qualifications should not be viewed as expressing absolute employment or promotional standards but as general guidelines that should be considered along with other job-related selection or promotional criteria.

Mobile Crisis Team operates outside normal business hours on evenings and weekends.

Participation in all mobile crisis trainings is required.

Physical Requirements: (This job requires the ability to perform the essential functions contained in this description. These include but are not limited to the following requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants unable to fulfill one or more of these requirements:

Required Experience:

Junior IC