Job description

Seeking HOOTS Crisis Intervention Worker (Coverage Pool)

General Position Description

As a HOOTS Crisis Intervention Worker, you work alongside a medic as part of a two-person team staffing wellness clinics in local high schools. You will have the primary responsibility of completing mental health assessments and providing crisis counseling during clinics. Interactions with students are incredibly varied and range from suicide risk assessments to conflict mediation to relationship advice to listening to a new favorite song together. Successful HOOTS crisis workers are able to easily build rapport with students from a range of backgrounds and presentations, as well as building and maintaining positive relationships with school staff and teachers. You will also be expected to make referrals and share information about resources available in the community to meet any identified needs. As a collectively run program each staff member’s experiences and input is a valuable resource in our work to continually evaluate and improve our services.

Responsibilities:

· Staff HOOTS clinics at local high-schools.

· Continuously build and maintain positive relationships with school staff and teachers.

· Assume primary responsibility for making mental health assessments and providing crisis counseling during clinics.

· Make appropriate referrals and resource recommendations to services in the community.

· Appropriately document all client interactions according to department policy.

· Fulfill mandatory reporter duties.

· Teach mental wellness presentations to classrooms.

· Attend required department and clinic meetings and share in other responsibilities as needed.

· Complete all required trainings.

· Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

· Minimum two years of experience in crisis intervention or delivery of mental health services in non-traditional settings.

· Ability to work effectively with a diverse population including impoverished and alienated persons.

· Ability to operate a cell phone and laptop computer.

· Ability to occasionally lift up to 30 pounds.

· Ability to pass a DHS background check.

· Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (or completed within 1 month of hire).

· Complete HOOTS Hogwarts within four months of hire.

· Complete White Bird’s ‘Basic Crisis’ class within 1 year of hire.

· Must be certifiable by Lane County as a Qualified Mental Health Associate.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience working with youth in mental health settings.

· Knowledge about humanistic, client-centered approaches to mental health services.

· Experience with harm reduction and/or restorative justice practices.

· Excellent verbal communication and active listening skills, including skills in building rapport with clients and school staff, and communicating effectively with co-workers.

· Experience with public speaking and/or teaching.

· Experience with consensus decision-making.

· Ability to thrive in a collaborative, dynamic, non-hierarchical environment.

· Ability to give and receive feedback with grace and compassion.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: From $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• On call

COVID-19 considerations:
All employees must follow COVID 19 guidelines and policies White Bird Clinic has created.

Work Location: In person

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