Child / Adolescent Crisis Response Team Therapist (Baldwin)

Overview

EastPointe Hospital is a private, free-standing psychiatric hospital for adults and adolescent males (ages 12 – 18) located in Daphne, Ala. EastPointe’s clinical and medical professionals assess and evaluate adults and adolescents in psychiatric crisis. Treatment focuses on stabilizing psychiatric symptoms and preventing psychiatric commitment. Adults and / or adolescents admitted to EastPointe will have exhibited life-threatening, destructive or disabling behavior or symptoms. Each patient completes a psychiatric diagnostic evaluation and receives 24-hour clinical care for the duration of their stay. The goal is for each patient to return to home or to the least restrictive level of care.

Responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities :

• Provides rapid crisis intervention and assessment to individuals, using face-to-face or telephone response, when calls come into Access to Care or the Intensive Care Coordinator as appropriate
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation
• Collaborates with Access to Care as needed
• Establishes and maintains regularly scheduled, and as needed, contact with the other AltaPointe programs to optimize appropriate dispositions and outcomes
• Leads in the initiating and implementing the services of the Child / Adolescent Crisis Response Team
• Provides services in the community, consumer’s homes, etc.
• Effectively determines the level of response needed in crisis situations
• Provides appropriate follow-up and referrals after a crisis
• Educates families on de-escalating crisis situations, including but not limited to, safety plans
• Follows up with consumers that are in AltaPointe Children’s Outpatient Programs who may be decompensating or at high-risk.
• Travels to consumers’ homes to ensure medication compliance as needed
• Utilizes appropriate communication methods to ensure appropriate communication with individual consumers’ treatment teams
• Assist in securing emergency medical services or law enforcement services if needed
• Provides effective clinical assessment of the consumer as needed
• Utilizes assessment data to support a DSM 5 diagnosis as needed
• Formulates appropriate treatment plan along with consumer and families, as appropriate
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy, utilizing basic therapeutic models and theories according to consumer needs as stated in the treatment plan as needed
• Effectively collaborates with the treatment team members, law enforcement, emergency medical services, court personnel and outside sources in the delivery of clinical services
• Advocates on behalf of the consumer to secure community resources
• Evaluates the consumer for discharge planning or movement to a less restrictive environment
• Adheres to professional code of ethics
• Effectively demonstrates the application of child / adolescent specific competencies

Supervision and Consultation :

Clinical Record Keeping :

Case Load Management :

Qualifications

Master’s degree in a mental health discipline with 2 or more years’ experience working with psychiatric disorders or crisis situations.

Knowledge in child / adolescent specialty, outlined below, to be attained within (6) six months of employment.