About this position
Program: Tooele MCOT
*This is a driving position and requires a minimum age of 21 and a current driver’s license
Pay: Range starts at $19.25 (pay is calculated based on years of certified/related experience) | Stipend for on-call hours!
Schedule: PRN position with after-hours coverage | Some weekends and holidays required.
Benefit Highlights:
- 401k Plan eligibility after 90 days, with a 100% company match on up to 6% of your income
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) for mental health needs
Why Valley?
Since 1984, Valley Behavioral Health has helped thousands of adults, children, and families access high-quality behavioral health care. As the largest non-profit community behavioral health provider in the Intermountain Region, Valley offers a comprehensive range of services to ensure each individual receives the personalized care they need to heal and grow.
You will belong in a community where you can be yourself, grow your career, and embrace new opportunities. Valley is committed to being an organization that promotes authenticity and encourages opportunities for success.
Job Summary
The Crisis Worker provides rapid, on-site intervention for individuals in behavioral health crises. The Crisis Worker provides services in the community, whether at homes, schools, shelters, or workplaces and assesses needs, de-escalates situations, and connects individuals to appropriate services to reduce the need for psychiatric hospitalization.
Essential Functions
- Responds to program and/or community crises
- Triages and screens clients in crisis to assess life-threatening situations, including risk of suicide and/or homicide, evaluate safety, acuity/danger, and determine medically necessary services
- Performs mental health status exams to assess for psychiatric concerns or level of care needs
- Utilizes prescribed de-escalation and resolution methods for helping support at risk community members
- Mobilizes community resources in an efficient and effective manner
- Develops strategies to alleviate the immediate threat/risk during a crisis call
- Uses the consultative process to properly assess the need for community collaboration during a crisis
- Keeps timely records that adhere to all state and program requirements
- May be required to use own vehicle for responding to after-hours crisis calls
Education
- High School diploma or equivalent
Experience
- None-see Preferred Qualifications
Licenses/Certificates
- State Crisis Worker certification within 90 days of hire
- Case Manager certification within 90 days of hire
- CPR certification
- Valley de-escalation certification
- Driving positions require a minimum age of 21 and a current driver’s license
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous crisis management experience