Mental Health Clinician

Liberty Resources is seeking a full-time Mental Health Clinician to join our Mobile Crisis team in Onondaga County

About Us:

Liberty Resources is a dynamic and growing human services agency that is a great place to work! Working for Liberty Resources means you’ll have access to great career opportunities, benefits and a fun atmosphere.

Our employees have passion around our values of excellence, integrity, diversity, self-determination, service, innovation and fiscal responsibility.

Our rapid growth is providing exciting opportunities in all areas of our organization. 

Our employees have passion around the services they provide and our corporate values of excellence and staff support.

We pride ourselves on high quality, integrated, community-based services that meet the evolving needs of our communities.

We’re committed to building a diverse workforce that values contributions of all team members and work to recognize cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and how they apply to provision of positive health outcomes.

 

About The Mobile Crisis Team:

The Mobile Crisis Team is a trained multidisciplinary response team that provides crisis intervention services in a variety of settings including community locations where individuals live, work, attend school, engage in services, or socialize.

Mobile Crisis intervention services are designed to interrupt and ameliorate the crisis experience and include: an assessment that is culturally and linguistically competent, the development of crisis diversion plans, safety plans or relapse prevention plans, support during and after a crisis and coordination with, and referrals to, health, social, and other services and supports as needed, including peer/family support services.

The goals of the Mobile Crisis Team are diversion of unnecessary hospitalizations and arrests, engagement in services, symptom reduction, and stabilization, restoring individuals to a previous level of functioning, and developing the coping mechanisms to minimize or prevent the crisis in the future.

The Mobile Crisis Team strives to build strong relationships and a successful reputation in providing efficient and quality crisis services within a five-county region.

We serve Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and Oswego counties.

 

Responder Position Summary:

The Mobile Crisis Licensed Responder will work alongside Mobile Crisis Responders and Peers and is primarily responsible for conducting clinical assessments and providing crisis intervention services.

The Licensed Responder will respond to individuals in crisis telephonically or in-person, or via telehealth as needed.

Additional follow-up services may be provided depending on the level of need.

 

Responder Job Responsibilities:


* Conduct initial and ongoing assessments to determine the need for further evaluation.


* Provide psychotherapy and psychosocial rehabilitation counsel...