Part-time Crisis Stabilization Unit/Crisis Observation Unit ICS - COMCARE

Department: [[cust_personnelSubarea]]

Job ID: 12811

Pay

$23.69 per hour | This position may be eligible for shift pay of $3.00 per hour for hours worked between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am.

Work Schedule: Varied shifts: Part-time to not exceed 999 hours per year

Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities. For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits [https://careers.sedgwickcounty.org/content/Health-and-Wellness/?locale=en_US].

Provide intensive, goal-directed, medically necessary services to meet the needs of members of the community and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) patients who have mental illness and substance use problems resulting in crisis stabilization.

• Direct Service Provision
• Case Management using identified and accepted methods to remediate symptoms of mental illness and/or improve emotional and functional well-being.
• Provide crisis stabilization services to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis while they are in the Wichita Children’s Home (WCH), Crisis Observation Unit (COU), and Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU)
• Manage distraught or psychotic clients who are in need of structure; monitor gross psychological and physical functions of clients
• Familiarize clients with guidelines and procedures of the WCH, COU, and/or CSU
• Conduct risk assessments as needed to address safety of clients.
• Collaborates with community partners, caregivers, family members, physicians and other treatment providers on a regular consistently until client dismissal.
• Support consumer achieve treatment goals, coordinate with collateral contacts, medication education, crisis management, prompt client to complete daily living activities, monitor client one to one for safety or as needed.
• Complete discharge planning and support transition to the community or to higher level of treatment.
• Provide transportation to support client attendance in medical appointments and other therapeutic goal related activities to include development of community resources, employment or education access, social or consumer-run activities and related supports.