Overview:
***Now offering a $5000 sign-on bonus and a four-day work week!***
Do you want to reduce the criminalization of mental health for young people ? Are you passionate about youth mental health? Join our Mobile Response Team as a Crisis Social Worker and be part of a team that works to mitigate risk, reduce law enforcement intervention, and stabilize youth and families during times of crisis. ( AMFT, APCC, ASW, AND licensed for all areas qualify).
As a Mobile Response Team Social Worker with Seneca MRT, you provide proactive early intervention before crises escalate to divert youth from more restrictive interventions. Our team consists of mental health professionals dedicated to same-day crisis intervention for youth facing immediate crises and ensures that families receive coordinated care and access to long-term services. The Mobile Response Team’s overarching goal is to prevent suicide, minimize unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations, decrease police involvement, and reduce the criminalization of mental health. This program specifically caters to low-income and at-risk community members, offering assistance to youth with Medi-Cal or no insurance.These crisis intervention services are provided in homes, schools, and various community locations. You will respond to each crisis as a team, never going out alone, while collaborating with fellow community partners that work to serve our youth.
Seneca offers financial assistance with licensure, weekly individual and group supervision towards licensure hours, free CEUs, and many free trainings to improve clinical skills.
ABOUT SENECA
Seneca Family of Agencies is a non-profit with a simple but powerful mission: to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Since then, Seneca provides a broad continuum of permanency, mental health, education, and juvenile justice services, which today reach over 18,000 youth and families throughout California and Washington State each year. The agency’s growth has been guided by a commitment to our Unconditional Care® model – doing whatever it takes to help children and families thrive, even when faced with tremendous challenges. Seneca is committed to supporting historically underrepresented communities and informing agency policies and practices through its agency-wide DEI Initiative and DEI Advisory Board. Seneca is committed to fostering an agency culture that is welcoming, cooperative, and inclusive of diverse peoples and worldviews. Seneca has been voted as a top workplace 7 years in a row and is one of Calfiornia’s top nonprofit providers of specialty mental health services in California.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the clinical lead and work with the treatment team to provide crisis intervention and other mental health services as needed at Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES), in client homes, and in the community.
- Provide counseling, therapy, and case management services to ensure the successful transition of clients and their families to community-based resources.
- Provide on-call coverage to the clients as needed.
- Participate in all treatment reviews, program staff meetings, and IEP meetings when necessary.
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation and paperwork.
- Assist with planning for transportation arrangements for school, therapy appointments, and court hearings.
- Participate in weekly supervision with the program supervisor or designee.
- Provide crisis intervention for students, using de-escalation techniques to resolve conflicts; this may include physical management of clients and implementation of Seneca’s Equilibrium Training.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in social work, marriage and family therapy, professional clinical counseling, or psychology.
- Eligible to register with the California BBS (AMFT, ASW, APCC).
- Bilingual Spanish/English abilities required.
- Strong communication skills and flexibility.
- Experience working with children and families in out of home care preferred.
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Own vehicle, California driver’s license and auto insurance.
- TB test clearance, fingerprinting clearance, and any other state/federal licensing or certification requirements.
- Proof of COVID-19 vaccination
Schedule:
- Full-Time
- Four 10-hour shifts
- Participate in On-Call Crisis Response shifts on a rotating basis
Benefits:
- Starting salary: $75,010 – $89,010 annually
- Actual salary dependent on creditable experience above the minimum qualifications for the role
- Additional $4000 salary increase for BBS licensure
- $5,000 sign-on bonus
- 5 weeks of Paid Time off and 11 Paid Holidays
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, and fertility coverage
- 50% paid premiums for dependents
- Pet insurance
- Long-term disability, family leave, and life insurance
- Employer-paid Employee Assistance Plan
- 403b Retirement Plan
- Training stipend and professional development opportunities
- Excellent clinical training, individual and group supervision, and assistance toward licensure
- Opportunities to develop specialized skills, including clinical supervision and evidence-based practices
- Abundant promotional opportunities across the agency in California and Washington
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