Lcsw/Lpc For Behavioral Health Crisis Center

Be part of the solution! Are you a skilled Behavioral Health professional interested in providing services in a collaborative setting? We’re looking for an enthusiastic and reliable team member to help us expand service hours at Eunoia Center. Eunoia Center is a walk-in Crisis Center run by Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority (JPHSA). Based on the “Living Room” model, the Eunoia Center provides intervention, counseling, and support services in a comfortable, calm, homelike setting. Eunoia Center provides a short-term Behavioral Health Crisis intervention that offers a community-based voluntary alternative to more restrictive settings like hospitals. As Eunoia Center expands service hours, we will be offering recovery-oriented and time-limited services up to twenty-three hours per intervention. This enables individuals to return home with community-based services for support or to transition to a higher level of care, as appropriate.

JPHSA provides a continuum of community-based Behavioral Health and support programs through its Behavioral Health Community Services (BHCS) Division. The Eunoia Center plays a key role in that, operating as one part of the statewide Louisiana Crisis Response System. This contract position requires no on-call work and is located in the greater New Orleans metropolitan area in Marrero.

Responsibilities

• Provide screening, assessment, intervention, and care coordination

• Performs risk evaluation to assess risk of suicide, self-injury, neglect, and violence

• Ensures program guidelines are clearly understood by individuals during intake

• Engages with family or supports who are present at intake and/or assessment process with individual's permission

• Assists in de-escalating crisis situations with individuals, as needed

• Completes assessments, progress notes, collateral contacts, including telephone call, on the day of service

• Provides supervision to non-licensed staff (peer support specialist) and completes Office Behavioral Health approved Peer Specialist Supervisor Training within six months of hire

Qualifications & Skills

• Registration as either a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana

• Willingness to work some weekends and overnights from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.

• U.S. work authorization

• Background screening required

• Outstanding interpersonal skills to communicate and interact effectively at different levels with different audiences

• Familiarity with principles of trauma-informed care and crisis response

• Ability to work in a culturally competent way and consistently treat all with dignity and respect

• Great time management with organizational skills required to set priorities and manage workload

• Experience with electronic health records (EHR)

Compensation & More

• Competitive compensation

• Free, nearby parking

• Tobacco-free environment

• Filtered water stations

• Receive Form 1099 as independent contractor

Contact

For more information about this position, submit your resume or contact Mark Zinter, Human Resource Specialist, at mzinter@jphsa.org.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: From $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 – 40 per week

Schedule:

• Evening shift
• Overnight shift
• Weekends as needed

Work setting:

• Community health center
• In-person

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person