POSITION SUMMARY:

The Crisis Therapist II provides clinical assessment, intervention, and stabilization services to individuals experiencing behavioral health crises across a variety of service environments. This position delivers timely, person-centered, trauma-informed care with the goal of reducing risk, stabilizing symptoms, and supporting continuity of care across the crisis continuum of services. Expected outcomes include safe crisis resolution, accurate clinical documentation, and effective collaboration with other members of the crisis services team to ensure coordinated care and appropriate transitions.  Crisis services operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and this role supports continuous coverage to ensure timely access to care.

 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct clinical interviews, psychosocial assessments, and risk assessments to determine safety, acuity, and level of care needs


• Provide crisis intervention services including de-escalation, safety planning, brief individual, family, or group therapeutic interventions, and short-term stabilization


• Develop initial treatment plans or crisis care plans in collaboration with the individual and interdisciplinary team


• Coordinate needed referrals and facilitate linkage to ongoing services and natural supports


• Work collaboratively with other members of the crisis services team across the continuum of care to support coordinated response, continuity of services, and safe transitions between levels of care


• Collaborate with internal staff and external partners as needed to support crisis resolution and continuity of care


• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation in accordance with agency policy, licensure standards, and regulatory requirements


• Provide clinical consultation and support to other team members as appropriate


• Participate in training, quality improvement activities, and program development efforts


• Deliver services in a variety of service environments which may include clinic-based, community based, residential, or virtual settings


• Complete involuntary mental health assessments in the community in accordance with Kentucky Revised Statutes, including evaluation of risk, grave disability, and criteria for emergency hospitalization, and coordinate with appropriate facilities and court officials as required


• Work alternate schedules as assigned and participate in an on call rotation as required to support 24/7 crisis service delivery


• Adhere to all ethical standards, confidentiality requirements, and applicable state and federal regulations


• Perform other related duties as assigned within the scope of licensure and training