WellSpan Health
Crisis Intervention Counselor - Gettysburg Hospital - Days
Job Description
**Full-time, Days**
**80 hrs/2 weeks**
**Includes every-other-weekend & rotating holidays**
**General Summary**
Ability to work independently to meet the client's needs, assess a crisis situation and provide stabilization to the client at the client's location as needed, resolve the crisis and appropriately refer the client to necessary services following policy and procedures.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
**Essential Functions:**
+ Responds promptly and appropriately to all calls.
+ Assesses patient's immediate needs.
+ Stabilizes patient using established crisis intervention techniques.
+ Utilizes suicide precaution check list as appropriate.
+ Refers to appropriate agency or service.
+ Follows up on patient condition as outlined in policy.
+ Responds to emergency mental health problems in the community.
+ Applies established guidelines of the Mental Health Act.
+ Discharges responsibilities of ...
**80 hrs/2 weeks**
**Includes every-other-weekend & rotating holidays**
**General Summary**
Ability to work independently to meet the client's needs, assess a crisis situation and provide stabilization to the client at the client's location as needed, resolve the crisis and appropriately refer the client to necessary services following policy and procedures.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
**Essential Functions:**
+ Responds promptly and appropriately to all calls.
+ Assesses patient's immediate needs.
+ Stabilizes patient using established crisis intervention techniques.
+ Utilizes suicide precaution check list as appropriate.
+ Refers to appropriate agency or service.
+ Follows up on patient condition as outlined in policy.
+ Responds to emergency mental health problems in the community.
+ Applies established guidelines of the Mental Health Act.
+ Discharges responsibilities of ...