Case Manager PRN | Tooele MCOT

Pay: (pay is calculated based on certification status)

• Uncertified Case Managers start at $17.50 - Uncertified Case Managers will obtain certification within the first 90 days and pay will be increased
• Certified Case Manager range starts at $19.25 - Certified CM pay is calculated based on years of certified experience.

Schedule: This position is after hours/weekends (on call) - flexible scheduling!

• Stipend for on-call hours!

Program: Tooele MCOT

Why Valley?

Since 1984, Valley Behavioral Health has helped thousands of adults, children, and families access high-quality behavioral health care. As the largest non-profit community behavioral health provider in the Intermountain Region, Valley offers a comprehensive range of services to ensure each individual receives the personalized care they need to heal and grow.

You will belong in a community where you can be yourself, grow your career, and embrace new opportunities. Valley is committed to being an organization that promotes authenticity and encourages opportunities for success.

Job Summary & Deliverables

Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOT) offer community-based intervention to individuals living in Tooele County. Outreach teams go to homes, schools, shelters, work, or anywhere else in the community where a person is experiencing a crisis.

The main objectives of mobile crisis services are to provide rapid response, assess the individual, and resolve crisis situations that involve children and adults who are presumed or known to have a behavioral disorder. Additional work includes linking people to needed services to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations, including hospitalizations that follow psychiatric ED admissions.

Essential Functions

• Triage/screening, including explicit screening for suicidality
• De-escalation/resolution
• Crisis Response planning and follow-up
• Actively engage, and make psychological contact, quickly establishing non-judgmental, understanding, genuine, respectful, caring, accepting and empathic relationship
• Mobilize community resources in an efficient and effective manner and make plans to alleviate the immediate threat/risk
• Record keeping and policy implementation

Education

• High School diploma or equivalent

Experience

• See Preferred Qualifications

Licenses/Certifications

• Case Manager certification
• CPR certification
• Valley de-escalation certification
• Driving positions require a minimum age of 21 and a current driver’s license

Required Qualifications

• Basic Life Support Health Care Provider card through American Heart Association or obtain within one month of hire.

Candidates must be eligible to apply for the State Crisis Worker Certification using one of the following methods:

• (a) Individuals licensed under Utah Department of Professional Licensing for any health or behavioral health license.
• (b) Individuals with a minimum of bachelor’s degree in a human service-related field.
• (c) Individuals certified as a Certified Peer Support Specialist for a minimum of one year.
• (d) Individuals certified as Case Managers for a minimum of one year; or
• (e) Individuals certified as Family Resource Facilitator for a minimum of one year.

Preferred Qualifications

• One year social services or behavioral health experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Services, Psychology, or related field