Mental Health Consultant – Acute Care Coordinator – African-American/Black Culture KSA

THIS WORK MATTERS!

**This recruitment is for a swing shift with routine telework. Currently, all employees must reside in Oregon or Washington; the county cannot support ongoing telework from other states. The work schedule is Sunday-Wednesday from 11:00 AM-9:30 PM .**
We’re seeking social workers and mental health professionals to join our team as a Mental Health Consultant – Acute Care Coordinator –  African-American/Black Culture KSA.

The Multnomah County Behavioral Health Call Center is a 24-hour, continuous crisis operation that constitutes the hub of mental health services for all residents of Multnomah County and Washington County. The vast majority of services are provided via telephone with approximately 75,000 calls received per year.

All ACCs answer and triage multiple distinct telephone lines that ring into the Call Center, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year including:

1) Multnomah County Crisis Line

2)  911 transfers

3)  EASA Referral Line

4)  Emergency Line (major event communication, e.g. terrorist attack, major earthquake, etc.)

5)  Washington County Crisis Line

6) Answer the Mental Health Referral Line, The CATC/Respite referral line, and the 988 transfer line.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA): These positions require advanced knowledge of and experience working with the African-American community. This would be demonstrated by understanding and supporting cultural considerations that impact clients, including over-representation of Black, Indigenous and other People of Color in the criminal/legal system and the impact of trauma, including racial trauma. Specifically knows the African-American/Black Community, historical and current barriers to mental health services and has knowledge of the traditions, values and customs. 

The eligible list created from this recruitment may be used to fill future regular, limited duration, temporary, on-call, full or part-time assignments within the department.

As the Mental Health Consultant – Acute Care Coordinator – African-American/Black Culture, duties include:

• Provide crisis intervention on multiple call lines including the Multnomah and Washington County Crisis Lines
• Provide care coordination across the mental health system for callers, as needed
• Provide information/referral to community mental health providers
• Provide consultation to providers at all levels of acuity in the mental health system regarding MMH mental health services
• Phone crisis intervention including risk assessment of clients who may be involved in potentially life threatening situations.
• Facilitate access to emergency and crisis services for clients as needed, including coordination with, mobile outreach, urgent walk-in clinics, and 911.
• Provide solution focused strength based interventions to assist clients. This covers a spectrum of mental health needs such as helping a client stabilize while experiencing panic, depression, agitation, delusional thinking, or any other mental health symptoms a client may deem as needing crisis line support.
• These functions require the extensive use of computer and phone technology, managing multiple computer screens and programs simultaneously, making rapid clinical decisions, adhering to complex policies and procedures, and concurrent documentation, while attending to a caller on the phone.
• Provide short-term case coordination and follow up for callers with urgent and/or complex needs, including those with specialized mental health-care needs to ensure that needs are appropriately and adequately addressed by service providers.
• Service providers may include culturally specific providers, drug and alcohol treatment providers, mental health providers, hospital emergency departments, residential facilities, schools, community corrections agencies, and law enforcement. Services provided may include:
  • Care coordination services on an interim basis;
  • Follow up contact to ensure service appropriateness.
• Use an electronic database to document all member/provider/community contacts and clinical reviews, including symptoms, interventions, goals and plan for next review.

TO QUALIFY:
We will consider any combination of relevant work experience, volunteering, education, and transferable skills as qualifying unless an item or section is labeled required. Please be clear and specific about how your background is relevant. For details about how we typically screen applications, review our overview of the selection process page.

Required Minimum Qualifications:
Education/Certification: Must meet the standards of Qualified Mental Health Professional – (QMHP – C) with the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon (MHACBO) – more information can be found at MHACBO website. QMHP – C within 30 days of hire, current QMHP – C, and/or licensed Board of Oregon (LPC, LCSW, PHD,etc)

Graduate degree in psychology or
Graduate degree in social work or counseling or
Graduate degree in a behavioral science field

Other:

This position requires a Background Investigation, which may include being fingerprinted.

*Transferable skills: Your transferable skills are any skills you have gained through education, work experience (including the military) or life experiences that are relevant for this position. Be sure to describe any transferable skills on your application and clearly explain how they apply to this position.

Preferred Qualifications/Transferable Skills:

• Respect and appreciation for ethnic and cultural diversity.
• Ability to apply an equity, intersectional and anti-racist lens.
• Understands cultural, racial and ethnic factors, including systemic advantage or disadvantage; acculturation, intergenerational immigrant family challenges, effects of trauma during immigration, war, separation from family and/or primary supports, detention, refugee camps, etc.; generational trauma, and any factors related to non-dominant culture affecting mental health and treatment.
• Ability to provide information/referrals to community mental health providers.
• Crisis intervention, including risk assessment of clients who may be involved in potentially life threatening situations.
• Advanced skills in managing sensitive information and ability to support the community.
• Knowledge of cultures, customs and social experiences of communities experiencing marginalization and barriers to opportunity.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, diplomacy, and tact in dealing with sensitive, complex, confidential information and situations, in addition to acting professionally, and empathically, with individuals, internal/external partners and communities.

SCREENING & EVALUATION:

REQUIRED:

The Application Packet: You must submit all requested items below. Failure to do so will be deemed as an incomplete application.

1. Attach a Resume demonstrating you meeting minimum qualifications; AND

2. Attach a Cover Letter addressing the following:

• Demonstrate your experience working with Black/African-American communities; and
• How you meet the qualifications for this position; and
• Why you are interested in the position; AND

3. Attach a copy of your Oregon Licensure and/or QMHP – C Certification (if applicable)

Note: Please be mindful of checking your email inbox for messages upon submitting your application. You may be emailed requesting for additional items from the Recruiter or hiring manager. If a response is not received in a timely manner your application may not be considered.

The Selection Process: For details about how we typically screen applications, review our overview of the selection process page. We expect to evaluate candidates for this recruitment as follows:

• Initial review of application/ resume and cover letter for minimum qualifications and all required attachments. If you do not address the minimum qualifications in the application, your application will be considered incomplete and will not move forward in the recruitment process.
• Phone screen
• Consideration of top candidates
• Background, reference, and education checks

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Type of Position: This hourly union-represented position is eligible for overtime

Type: Represented

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Teleworking: At this time, this position is designated to “routine telework,” meaning you will be working remotely (from home) most of the time; a hybrid schedule also is available. As with all routine telework positions, employees may be required to come into the office on occasion. The designation of Routine Telework may be subject to change at a future time. Currently, all employees must reside in Oregon or Washington; the county cannot support ongoing telework from other states.

Diversity and Inclusion: At Multnomah County, we don’t just accept difference; we value it and support it to create a culture of dignity and respect for our employees.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran or protected veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO Know Your Rights poster is available for your reference. Multnomah County is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We request priority protected veteran referrals.

Veterans’ Preference: Under Oregon Law, qualifying veterans may apply for veterans’ preference. Review our veterans’ preference page for details about eligibility and how to apply.

Accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act: We gladly provide reasonable accommodation to anyone whose specific disability prevents them from completing an application or participating in this recruitment process. Please contact the recruiter below in advance to request assistance. Individuals with hearing or speech impairments may contact the recruiter through the Telecommunications Relay Service by dialing 711.

Questions?

Recruiter: Christiane Fitzgerald

Email: christiane.fitzgerald@multco.us

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