Youth Crisis Intervention Specialist

Overview

• Legacy Treatment Services operates the State-designated Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization program for Burlington County.
• The program provides crisis intervention to families with a child or youth exhibiting emotional or behavioral disturbances that threaten to disrupt their current living arrangements.
• Trained response workers diffuse crises at the site of the crisis for up to 72 hours.
• They work with the family to develop an individualized crisis plan and coordinate in-home follow-up intervention services for up to eight weeks.
• Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Full-time benefits include: 3.2 weeks of PTO in first year Health insurance, vision, dental & life insurance benefits 403(b) employee participation and employer match 9 Agency-paid holidays Training opportunities provided throughout the year $500 annual retention bonus Salary: $20 to $24 / hour depending on experience and education Hours: Position is full-time; various shifts available; some weekend and evening hours are required.

Responsibilities

• Intervenes in crisis situations through mobile outreach response.
• Interviews clients, performs assessment and crisis interventions, creates individual crisis plans and provides case management by making linkage and referrals.
• Reaches out to post intervention clients to perform follow-up.
• Responds to crisis outreach immediately and is on-site of the crisis within one hour of receiving crisis outreach call.
• On-call as needed.
• Answers 24-hour hotline, as scheduled.
• Works in a team approach.
• The individual demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the consumer population served.
• He or she must be able to assess and interpret data about the consumer’s status in order to identify each consumer’s needs and provide the appropriate care, including age-related care, needed by the consumer group.
• Some weekend and evening hours are required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social service field or bachelor’s degree in a social services field plus one year of experience of field work with children.
• Ability to become certified in the Crisis Assessment Tool within six months of hire.
• Legacy Treatment Services is a vibrant nonprofit behavioral health organization that utilizes cutting-edge technology and evidence-based practice in treatment and clinical care.
• Our programs provide a complement of services for most ages and needs.
• This continuum is designed to meet the complex needs of each individual and creates a continuum of services that are able to meet the needs of children, adults, and families through a continuum of services utilizing an integrated care model.
• We are dedicated to seeking new innovative solutions that help us provide needed services more efficiently while maintaining stable, sustainable growth.