Best Point Education & Behavioral Health·Middletown, Ohio
Respond to community-based mental health crises to provide immediate assessment, de-escalation, and stabilization services. Coordinate referrals and develop individualized safety plans while collaborating with hospitals and law enforcement.
Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is seeking compassionate, skilled, and responsive After-Hours Crisis Therapists. As an After-Hours Crisis Therapist, you will respond directly to community-based mental health crises, helping individuals and families navigate difficult situations through assessment, de-escalation, risk mitigation, safety planning, and connection to ongoing supports. This role offers flexibility while allowing clinicians to make an immediate impact in the lives of those experiencing crisis.
• Therapists are required to sign up for a minimum of three on-call shifts per month.
The Crisis are community-based/in-home services. This position responds from therapist’s home to client’s location within the limits of the area of response.
The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
· Must be able to provide mobile-response services by operating their own vehicle.
· Use hands to manipulate, handle, feel, and control items or equipment;
· Talk to other employees/clients and hear them;
· See and be able to read, write, and interpret written documents;
· Occasionally lift and move objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers.
Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words. We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.
Market context
Behavioral health roles in Ohio are typically in steady demand as employers seek clinicians who can support outpatient, community, and integrated care settings. These positions are competitive because they often require a master’s degree and a valid clinical license, and candidates should note that the requirements and benefits here are AI-summarized from the original job description to save research time. Before applying, confirm licensure fit and prepare examples of direct client care, crisis response, or care coordination.
