Crisis Team Therapist (HS II or III)
Job #FY20-013
Recruitment closes February 19, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.
Crisis Team Therapist
(HS Specialist II or III)
HHS/Family & Youth
HS Spec II Salary: $4209 - $4800/month ( DOE)
HS Spec III Salary: $4597 - $5215/month ( DOE)
With Excellent Benefits
Our Community
Yamhill County has approximately 102,000 residents and is a very desirable place to live in the heart of the Willamette Valley wine country. Yamhill County is home to Linfield College and Chemeketa Community College in McMinnville and George Fox University and Portland Community College in Newberg. Yamhill County is centrally located in the Willamette Valley, within close proximity to the Oregon Coast, the Portland and Salem metropolitan areas, and the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Wide varieties of indoor and outdoor recreation opportunities are available. We have the benefits, appeal and superior quality of life found in a small town community, while enjoying active social and cultural lifestyles found in larger metropolitan areas.
The Crisis Team Therapist
This is a regular full-time position on the Family & Youth REACH team providing emergent, urgent, and routine mental health services to children and their families in a clinic-based setting. Duties include engaging with the public, providing risk screenings and support in a crisis, diagnosing mental health and/or substance use disorders, using evidence-based therapeutic interventions with clients and families, brief intensive case management, and collaborative documentation.
The person in this position will work with other crisis specialists to serve the crisis needs of the community by taking crisis phone calls, walk-in clients, working with youth in the juvenile detention facility, consulting on MH screenings in local hospitals, and providing consultation and referrals to other community agencies as needed. Please see the attached job descriptions for full details.
The Benefits
Health coverage - Group medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for the entire family. For the 2019-20 plan year, the County pays 99% of the monthly premium and employees pay 1% ($15.90 per month) for the Base Plan. With this plan, employees are eligible for a $100 a month contribution into an HRA VEBA account. Buy-up plans are also available.
Retirement - PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) contribution is 100% employer funded, which includes both contribution to PERS pension and IAP accounts (IAP contribution is 6% of salary).
Short-Term Disability – 100% County paid
Life insurance - $6,000 for employee/$2,000 for spouse and children – 100% County Paid.
Vacation/Sick Leave - Flexible Earned Time (FET) is a combination of vacation and sick leave. To start, you will earn 12.38 hours per month and future accruals increase based on years of service. After a year of service and depending on FET balance, employees may sell-back up to 40 hours of FET per year.
The Qualifications- Yamhill County- HS Specialist II/III (QMHP)
This position requires a master's degree from an accredited school in social work, clinical psychology, psychiatric nursing, or a related field and:
HS Specialist II: One year of experience as a Human Services Specialist I. Any satisfactory equivalent combination of experience and training which ensures ability to perform the work may substitute for the above. Must qualify as QMHP, CADC, or QMRP to work in respective fields. May require licensing.
HS Specialist III: Three years’ post-masters experience in addition to an active professional license in the state of
Oregon as a Qualified Mental Health Provider (QMHP) or will need to be a non-licensed QMHP with dual credentialing as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC I, II, or III). Preference will be given to those applicants with training and experience in evidence-based practices and experience providing intensive mental health and addictions services in a community-based setting. Will be subject to successful completion of a background check.
The Candidate
The successful candidate must have working knowledge of techniques specifically related to community mental health services and the following abilities: to understand the behavior of people under stress; to develop and maintain effective cooperative relationships with clients and their families, the community, physicians, law enforcement agencies, the courts, and public and private administrators; to interpret community mental health and chemical dependency services, and to prepare concise and complete client treatment and progress records. Typing and computer proficiency is required for collaborative documentation. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, and will be dependable, organized, self-directed, detail-oriented, and possess the ability to work independently or in a team environment and to interact with co-workers, clients, and the public in a courteous, professional manner.
In order to qualify for most HHS positions, applicants:
**Must not be excluded from participation in federal health care programs (Medicaid, Medicare, and other federally-funded programs that provide health benefits); and
**Must not be excluded from participation in federal procurement (Federal Acquisition Regulation) and non-procurement activities (Executive Order No. 12549).
Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this classification with or without accommodation.
Yamhill County is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and values diversity. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. A completed county application is required. Applicants are considered for employment based on their qualifications without regard to race, religions, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other factor prohibited by law or regulation. Veterans are encouraged to apply. In order to receive Veterans’ Preference Points, please be sure to submit the required Veterans Hiring Preference Form.