What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mobile Crisis Outreach Liaison position at Hays County?
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Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, include the responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics listed below. This list of responsibilities is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Summary
Under limited supervision and with extensive independent judgment, the Mobile Crisis Outreach Liaison provides and ensures that 24-hour on call crisis services are readily available, in coordination with Hill Country Care. The delivery of services will be based on the needs of the community and individuals experiencing a psychiatric or mental health crisis related incident or emergency. The crisis assessments may be conducted in the individual’s home, medical clinic, hospital, jail, school settings, or place of incident. The Mobile Crisis Outreach Liaison position is responsible for assessing individuals in crisis situations, developing individualized crisis treatment plans, and providing crisis follow up contacts. This position must have a strong work ethic. The Mobile Crisis Outreach Liaison must follow directions, meet deadlines, have good attendance, be punctual, have honesty, integrity, be free from moral turpitude, be reliable, and have a proper attitude.
Individuals in this position serve at the pleasure of the current elected official.
- Assesses specific needs in order to develop and implement Person Centered Recovery plans that support individuals with mental illness in learning skills to reach their specified service outcomes and to attain/maintain individual recovery
- Schedules and implements individual rehabilitative services including daily living skills, symptom management, supported employment and supported housing
- Prepares and provides timely and accurate documentation that supports diagnosis and outcome based services and meets Texas Health and Human Services Commission standards
- Maintains incident and service data, which will be used to plan and make projections for current and future services to meet outcomes, set by the state contract
- Collaborates with intra- and inter-agency staff to improve services for the individuals being served and the community
- Complies with HIPPA and PHI to ensure confidentiality of all client information
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Any equivalent combination of experience or training may be substituted on a year for year basis
- Preferred Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in social, behavioral or human services.
- Credentialed as Qualified Mental Health Professional-Community Services (QMHP-CS)
- Previous work experience in a team setting
- Three years experience working in social services
- Experience with crisis assessments and intervention as well as treatment planning and clinical documentation
- Valid Class C Texas driver’s license
- Adheres to regulatory requirements of DSHS, HHSC, State and Federal laws pertaining to provision of counseling services, professional licensure standards and ethical requirements Maintains CANS/ANSA certification
Salary : $44,170 - $45,495
