Intake Clinician Bilingual English/Spanish – CIHCS

The Intake Clinician serves as a liaison between children/families and systems and provides intake and assessment services depending on the needs and expectations of each child in the Children’s In-Home Crisis Stabilization (CIHCS) program of The Priority Center.

Goals

• Be part of a field based crisis team that responds to crisis line calls throughout the community.
• Meet productivity level as defined by The Priority Center and CIHCS management.
• Complete documentation as required by the Program Director and/or Program Supervisor in a timely manner and meets the standards of County of Orange Health Care Agency (HCA), HIPAA, Medi-Cal and other funding sources.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide in-person intake and assessment services to clients in crisis as part of a warm-handoff from CAT/CSU/Hospitals during scheduled working hours.
• Conduct a thorough clinical assessment including chief complaint, history, mental status, needs of family, disposition, and focused on the crisis and safety concerns.
• Provide crisis intervention and critical safety management as needed
• Participate as a member of multi-disciplinary team as appropriate in treatment plan reviews of children in the program.
• Document all services provided for HCA contract compliance, as well as financial, statistical and other reporting purposes.
• Peer review documentation and other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Relationship

• Supervised by the Program Director and Program Supervisor

Position Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy or related field
• Two years’ experience preferred
• Valid California driver’s license
• Live Scan fingerprinting required
• Experience with families and adults is highly preferred
• Bilingual-Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi, Spanish preferred
• Registration with California BBS required

Working Conditions

• Working environment is generally indoor, reasonably clean, well-lighted and ventilated
• Generally little or no probability of injury or health impairments
• Requires little or no physical effort involving intermittent standing, sitting or walking while performing duties, occasional lifting up to 10 lbs

Compensation

This is a full-time exempt position with compensation of $70,000 annually.