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Crisis Mobile Response Worker

Looking for a Full-Time Crisis Response Worker for our Children's Mobile Crisis department. Opportunity to work and be dispatched remotely!

Job Summary :

You will provide immediate therapeutic mobile crisis services to children and youth in the community on a 24 / 7 hour basis.

What You Will Do :

• Stabilize and minimize the movement of children from one living arrangement to another
• Manage appropriate levels of risk and crisis in the home and community
• Assess children and / or adolescents and families at intake / admissions, during ongoing treatment, service delivery, and discharge
• Collaborate with treatment providers to establish comprehensive assessments and service plans
• Monitor medications intake by assessing symptoms, side effects, and medication compliance; ensure consumer follows through with prescribed medication; recommend changes in medication.
• Provide substance abuse services, family consultation, crisis intervention, and vocational, educational, and employment services
• Record the following information in the consumer's clinical record : assessments, service plans, progress notes (DAP format), and discharge summaries, with all entries authenticated and dated.
• Spend 65% of time face-to-face with consumers, in their homes and the community

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About CarePlus New Jersey :

CPNJ embraces a culture of diversity and inclusion in all of it policies and procedures. Care Plus follows Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, et seq and NJ Law Against Discrimination.We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by Federal and State laws.