Intake Clinician EMPACT

Who we are :

EMPACT- Suicide Prevention Center, part of the La Frontera family, is an industry leading non-profit organization dedicated to providing valued community services and resources for behavioral health counseling, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention since 1987. We are an EEO / AA Employer.

What you'll do :

Our Clinical Service Liaison (Intake Clinician) will participate in community outreach and engagement for the purposes of community education, awareness of mental health resources for children / adults, identifying uninsured or under-insured who may qualify for mental health services under MHBG or CBHSF grants. Additionally, the Clinical Service Liaison will participate in the enrollment of children / adults for those referrals obtained via the outreach activities.

Essential Responsibilities :

• Clinical Service Liaison will be active in the community to identify and solicit MHBG referrals
• Will develop, enhance, maintain relationships with other community providers of services
• Coordinate and facilitate community / professional presentations on mental health resources, build awareness of mental health resources for the uninsured or under-insured
• Comply with all tracking and reporting requirements, including but not limited to mileage, associated expenses, referrals, presentations
• Conduct initial enrollments, evaluations, assessments for referrals acquired. Direct services may be in-home, in school, community based, or office based.
• In collaboration with each client, support services to families, youth, and adults, that meet the following 12 Arizona Principles : Collaboration with the family, youth and adult; Emphasis on achieving functional outcomes; Collaboration with others, including participation in unified assessment, planning, and service approaches when families, youth, and adults are involved with multiple systems; Access for families, youth, and adults to a comprehensive array of sufficient behavioral health services to meet their needs; Best practices; Most appropriate setting; Timeliness; Services tailored to the family, youth, and adult; Stability in placements; Respect for the family's, youth's, and adult's unique cultural heritage; Independence; Connection to natural supports.
• Ensure the continuity of care in the provision of comprehensive behavioral health services to family, youth, and adult. Assist additional team members, which include Clinical Coordinators, Managers, and / or Director in coordinating communication with other departments of the agency or with external stakeholders in accomplishing this function.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities :

What you'll provide :

Additional Requirements and Responsibilities :

What we'll offer :

(Full-time employees)

EMPACT-SPC is licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services, and accredited by the American association of Suicidology (AAS) and The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

EMPACT-SPC / La Frontera Arizona provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

All employees of EMPACT-SPC and La Frontera Arizona are employees "at will" as that term is understood in the State of Arizona. This means that employment may be terminated at any time without prior notice and for no stated reason.

EMPACT-SPC / La Frontera Arizona reserves the right to modify position descriptions as needed and without notice. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.