Job Description
Position Summary: The Mobile Response Team (MRT) Therapist is responsible for therapeutic crisis stabilization intervention and crisis prevention services in the Brevard County System of Care in a variety of home and community settings. This position provides immediate response for family stabilization and follow‐up support for people in community. The Mobile Response Team is co-located with and works collaboratively with the Melbourne Police Department. This position maintains information regarding the environment of current services to ensure a flexible, responsive, culturally competent service delivery system. This position will cover evening and/or overnight hours.
Technical/Functional Expectations:
- Ensure Therapeutic Crisis Response: This position provides therapeutic crisis response in Brevard County in conjunction with a case manager. MRTs are designed to address a wide variety of situations, including suicidal and homicidal behaviors, individuals displaying hallucinations, family/peer conflicts and disruptive behaviors. The MRT can be the first on the scene or may be called by law enforcement. MRTs are dispatched to the location of a crisis with a target response time of one hour from the time of the call. MRTs coordinate in‐ person services with law enforcement to provide additional safety, when appropriate and necessary.
- Comprehensive Summary of Crisis Intervention: This position will provide a comprehensive summary of any crisis response provided within one business day of the response. The summary includes a crisis response summary, brief behavioral description, crisis intervention utilized and any needs or recommendations.
- On Call Schedule: This position will respond to calls as part of the on‐call rotation.
- Other duties as required: Job performance requires fulfilling other incidental or related duties as assigned, assisting, and training others, and performing duties of higher rated positions from time to time for developmental purposes.
- Analytical Problem Resolution: Able to use systematic techniques to define problems, options, and solutions; evaluate alternative solutions; solve technical problems using logic.
- Analyzing: Able to break down problems and information to systematically identify the cause of problems or make recommendations; gather information from multiple sources; analyze complex information; organize information for analysis.
- Strategic Perspective: Able to develop long‐term, big picture strategies to enhance competitiveness; recognize broad implications of issues; balance and integrate strategic vision with day‐to‐day activities.
- Influence: Able to positively change the opinions and actions of others in a desired direction; present information in a persuasive manner; clarify information to gain understanding and buy‐in.
- Teamwork: Able to share ideas and learn from others to build consensus; assist others to achieve team goals; contribute to meetings so they are productive; challenge status quo to achieve excellence.
- Decisiveness: Able to use available information to draw a timely conclusion and take quick and timely action; make quick and timely decisions in stressful situations and when necessary.
- Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio‐economic backgrounds of others.
- Ethics: Adhere to and model principles and values of Agency and System of Care by being strength‐based, solution‐focused, maintains highest level of integrity and ethical standards and work collaboratively with
- employees, partners, stakeholders, and clients in all interactions.
- Two years’ Experience Crisis Intervention: Required to appropriately respond to and stabilize crisis calls.
- Strength Based Family Centered Practice Orientation: This is essential to effectively support the System of Careand its values.
- Valid Driver's License ‐ Essential: This position requires a valid driver’s license to travel throughout the County.
- Two to Five years Clinical Services Experience: Required to effectively supervise and coach clinical services options and manage crisis response.
- Strong Interpersonal, Presentation, and Organization skills: Required to effectively partner with various
- stakeholders and agency staff and train community stake