Community Outreach Specialist - Mobile Crisis Unit

We are recruiting for a motivated Community Outreach Specialist - Mobile Crisis Unit to join our team!

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Department

Adult Psychiatrists

With over 700 employees, Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at Denver Health is a large and rapidly expanding department that provides psychiatric care for patients in community, emergency, inpatient, justice, medical, mobile, and outpatient settings. As a non-profit committed to meeting community needs and promoting health equity, Denver Health offers psychiatrists a practice full of meaning and purpose. All physicians at Denver Health have an academic appointment at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. As such, Denver Health is an excellent place to work for physicians with an interest in clinical education.

Job Summary
Under general professional supervision, performs behavioral health case coordination services in the community including planning, organizing, and treatment referral/disposition. Engages patients through community outreach, both independently and with various external partners, to assess patient needs and develop plan for accessing care. Delivers services in accordance with the approved plan of treatment and plan of care. Assists behavioral healthcare providers in understanding significant social and emotional factors related to the patient's behavioral health issues.
Essential Functions:

• Engages clients in various community settings and identifies client's behavioral health needs, plans for implementation and/or coordinates care palns through resources acquisition, monitoring, advocacy, collaboration, and evaluation (60%)
• Coordinates follow-up treatment referrals to various levels of care including outpatient therapy and psychiatry, intensive outpatient programing, long term care and other services as indicated. Identifies potential barriers to accessing care and works with clients to identify solutions and access additional resources to reduce those barriers. (20%)
• Develops knowledge base of risk factors for psychosocial functioning, wellness and health promotion and provides basic education to patient. Utilizes methods, techniques, and approaches to the delivery of care that are consistent with the patient population and in conformance with the specific care plan developed for each patient.
  (10%)
• Completes documentation of care coordination activities and interventions per established standards and guidelines. Prepares and submits data and information to behavioral health supervisor in a timely manner. (10%)

Education:

• Master's Degree Social Work, Counseling, Public Health, Human Services, or other closely related field required.

Work Experience:

• 1-3 years experience working in mental health and/or substance use disorders and/or with individuals experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of emotional and social factors that affect patient’s health.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Skilled in identifying problems/opportunities to improve care.
• Ability to utilize resources, such as family and community agencies to assist the patient to improve life in the community.
• Ability to collect key information from the patient, family and the community as part of the care coordination assessment.
• Ability to communicate to the appropriate staff and other identified supports information about the patient’s care plan.
  Ability to manage time sufficiently to achieve established goals.
• Proficiency with software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
   

Shift

Days (United States of America)

Work Type

Regular (0.9 FTE)

Salary

$53,400.00 - $80,100.00 / yr (Pay range listed is for 1.0 full-time equivalent (FTE). See Work Type for actual FTE)

Benefits

• Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

• Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

• On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

• Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

• Tuition reimbursement & assistance

• Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

• Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer+ free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program 

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We value the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community.

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.