About the Role
Join our Mobile Crisis Response Team to provide compassionate, community-based support to adults experiencing mental health, substance use, or developmental disability-related crises. As part of a two-person mobile unit, you’ll use your clinical expertise to assess needs, de-escalate crises, and deliver tailored, trauma-informed interventions in real time. Your work will promote recovery, resilience, and safety across the community.
Responsibilities
- Respond to mobile crisis calls from adults experiencing mental health, substance use, or developmental disability-related emergencies.
- Work alongside a peer support specialist to deliver personalized, high-quality crisis services.
- Assess individuals in community settings to determine crisis level, needs, support systems, and appropriate interventions.
- Use solution-focused strategies to help resolve crises, teach coping skills, and develop contingency plans.
- Provide clinical support and follow-up care using active listening to create response plans and connect individuals to ongoing services.
- Help individuals access internal and external resources, strengthen natural supports, and prepare for future challenges.
- Promote positive relationships with family, peers, and community supports.
- Participate in training, supervision, and data collection.
- Conduct risk assessments, coach coping skills, coordinate follow-up care, and connect individuals to appropriate resources.
- Collaborate closely with peer support specialists, internal teams, and external providers to ensure high-quality, person-centered care that promotes safety, recovery, and resilience.
- Ensure timely documentation and collaboration with internal and external partners.
Requirements
- A valid driver’s license, comprehensive auto insurance, and access to a safe, reliable vehicle is required.
- Ability to multi-task and feel comfortable engaging with people in frequently changing environments where the pace and intensity of someone’s needs are unclear.
- Proven capacity to engage effectively and empathetically with others, inspire hope, and promote recovery and resiliency.
- Proficient written and oral communication skills with the ability to accurately and professionally document work in an electronic medical records system.
- Skilled in understanding and supporting individuals experiencing a difficult life event or crisis, while maintaining appropriate boundaries and applying trauma-informed care practices.
- Must be able to move through office and residential spaces, alternate between sitting and standing, and use a computer for extended periods.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 20 pounds; additional physical support may be needed in care settings.
- Must be ready to use crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques.
- Must be prepared to respond to medical or behavioral emergencies and contact emergency services when needed.
Skills
- Clinical expertise
- Crisis intervention
- De-escalation techniques
- Trauma-informed interventions
- Risk assessment
- Coping skills coaching
- Resource coordination
- Active listening
- Solution-focused strategies
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Electronic medical records documentation
- Empathetic engagement
- Promoting recovery and resiliency
Location
- Berlin, VT 05602
Work Type
- Mobile
- Community-based
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or graduate level work in mental health or social work or a combination of education and professional experience in related work.
Salary/Compensations
- $26.50 - $27.58 Hourly
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Generous retirement contribution matching
- 12.5 flexible holidays per year
- 12 paid vacation days earned in year one
- 12 paid sick days earned in year one
About the Company
- For more than 50 years, Washington County Mental Health Services (WCMHS) has served the Washington County community and the Orange County towns of Orange, Washington, and Williamstown.
- WCMHS provides education, support, and treatment to individuals and families living with mental health challenges, substance use issues, and developmental and intellectual disabilities.
- Providing accessible, high-quality services in the community, schools, and health care settings, we work toward positive outcomes for wellness with collaborative, inclusive, and compassionate care.
- Washington County Mental Health Services is “Where Hope and Support Come Together.”
