Mobile Crisis Specialist
 Elwyn | |
paid time off, tuition reimbursement
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| 111 Elwyn Road (Show on map) | |
 Jul 02, 2025 | |
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Overview
Join a Team That Changes Lives For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change - helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives. Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives - including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters. At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:
Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today. Job Description As a member of the Mobile Assessment Team the Mobile Crisis Specialist (MCS) is responsible for responding to mental health crises upon dispatch from the Delaware County Office of Behavioral Health Dispatch Specialist. The MCS's function is to work with individuals and their community supports to assess and de-escalate a crisis, determine the level of care necessary to meet the individual's needs, develop alternatives to involuntary hospitalization through conducting assessments, treatment planning, counseling, and coordination of community care linkages and discharge process. The MCS will also coordinate the involuntary hospitalization process in situations where individuals present as dangerous to themselves or others. The MCS will act as an advocate and represent the needs and rights of persons served with outside social service agencies, families, etc. * Complete an assessment for adults, adolescents, or children throughout Delaware County wherever the crisis is occurring * Develop and secure appropriate services for individuals in crisis, including referrals to voluntary inpatient settings and applications for involuntary emergency examination and treatment under *302 of the Mental Health Procedures Act of 1976. Provide linkages to community supports, supportive counseling, and substance abuse services and always reflect the possibility of recovery * Complete referrals for follow-up services by community mental health and other supports. Assist in completion of application for entitlements. Complete Emergency Care Provider Intake * Provide all appropriate documentation set forth by Director including intakes, progress notes, medical charting, discharge plans, and individual assessments * Advocate for individuals served with outside agencies including, but not limited to Social Security, Department of Public Welfare, Delaware County Office of Behavioral Health, Delaware County Base Service Units, etc. * Interface with families of persons served and other interested parties * Maintain communication with physician, psychiatrist, pharmacist, and other appropriate ancillary service providers such as speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy as relevant to providing emergent services * Intervene in crisis situations * Attend scheduled staff team meetings and appropriate in service training as directed by supervisor * Participate as a member of the interdisciplinary team; maintain complete and accurate clinical record * Conduct fire drills and building inspections and provide the appropriate documentation for same * Remain on duty until relieved * Maintain current certification/re-certification of CPR, First Aid and Medication Administration certification * Provide counseling, guidance, support, resources and encouragement to persons served to take responsibility for and actively participate in their own recovery * Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which each person's point of view, experiences, and preferences are recognized, understood, and respected, and in which the person' self-determination and decision making in treatment planning are maximized and supported * Increase awareness of, and support participation in, self-help programs and advocacy organizations that promote recovery * These general duties describe some principal functions of the job, but should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in this position * Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), crisis intervention and medication administration using agencytrained protocols * Perform other duties as assigned Equal Opportunity Employer Elwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Elwyn does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, pregnancy status, medical condition, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, sexual orientation or identity, age, national origin, citizenship, handicap status, marital or family status, mental or physical disability, perceived disability, military or veteran status, political activities or affiliations, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation. | |