Mobile Crisis Response/SASS Counselor

You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities. 

Job Scope: Works with families and community based systems to provide in-home services including crisis assessment, treatment planning, case management and intensive family based services. Actively contribute as a team member with on-call crisis response shifts to provide assessment, maintain a caseload for linking clients to long-term services, and maintain a caseload of clients for individual therapy. Clients served are predominately ages 6-24, but can range from age 3 through the lifespan. On call-shifts run on a 24/7 basis, and include evening, weekend, and holiday hours. Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

Ken­neth Young Cen­ter offers a robust ben­e­fit pack­age that is high­ly com­pet­i­tive to the mar­ket and offers all full-time employ­ees the following: 

• 403(b) plan with orga­ni­za­tion­al matching   
• Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illi­nois - BCBS)
• Den­tal (BCBS), and Vision Insur­ance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
• Long Term and Short Term Dis­abil­i­ty (BCBS), no cost to employee
• Flex­i­ble Spend­ing Account (with annu­al rollover)
• Basic life insur­ance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for addi­tion­al vol­un­tary cov­er­age for self, spouse, or depen­dents (BCBS)
• Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
• Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
• Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)

To fur­ther pro­mote an active and healthy work/ life bal­ance, KYC also offers a gen­er­ous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.  

• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increas­es based on seniority)
• 8 Paid Orga­ni­za­­­tion-Wide Hol­i­days
• 3 Per­son­al Float­ing Hol­i­days annually

Clinical Responsibilities 

• Provide a full range of crisis screening, assessment, and support services to a caseload of clients and their families. These services will include the following:
  • Crisis screenings resulting in hospitalization or deflection.
  • Attending all ongoing hospital staffings and residential placement meetings
  •  Developing a plan to stabilize a client without the use of hospitalization if hospitalization is not necessary
  • Case management services
  • Linkage back to substitute care provider
  • Linkage to community resources as needed
  • Ongoing support to help a client maintain access to established services
  • Post-hospitalization services, which includes gathering information for a mental health assessment and individualized treatment plan
• Participate as a responsible crisis team member to maintain continuous on-call coverage and to accomplish other team tasks, goals and responsibilities
• Manage a caseload that reflects the MCR/ SASS program demands
• Provide timely and accurate assessments of incoming calls with clinically appropriate dispositions.
• Determine the need for additional services based on the assessment and facilitate linkage

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited College or University in Social Work, Psychology, or closely related discipline minimum of a high school diploma or GED and 5 years supervised clinical experience in mental health or human services
• Masters Degree from an accredited College or University in Social Work, Psychology, or closely related discipline preferred 
• Lower level licensure preferred
• Bilingual preferred 
• One to two years experience working with children and adolescents.
• Valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and reliable transportation required.
• Computer skills required.

Schedule / Driving Responsibilities

• Exempt, Full-time, 37.5 hour work week
• Must work a flexible schedule in response to the needs of the target population served, including rotating direct on-call responsibilities, which includes evening, weekend, and holiday hours.   
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office setting.
• Roughly one half of the employee's time will be spent in the community, driving to and from hospital sites to perform crisis screenings.

Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer