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Our mental health team is seeking a part-time Crisis Workers to be responsible for providing telephone crisis intervention and mobile services to distressed Westmoreland County residents. You will primarily work overnight. As a Crisis Worker, you will use informed counseling skills to:
- Provide crisis intervention services including psycho-educational coaching, resource information, and referrals and after care to individuals exhibiting acute behavioral problems, disturbed thoughts, mood and/or social conflicts,
- Maintain 24/7 call center presence through three different shifts, and
- Travel using agency vehicle to respond to acute and emergency calls where such cases warrant.
WCA is a non-profit organization that works to connect individuals and families to opportunities and resources throughout the community to improve their quality of life and help to reduce poverty in the community. This is accomplished through housing, counseling, support, education, intervention, collaborations, partnerships, information, referrals, and networking.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in sociology or related field OR
- High school diploma and twelve semesters in sociology or related field, of which one year must be mental health direct care experience OR
- Six years experience providing mental health crisis intervention services.
- Direct experience in crisis intervention with the ability to assess and respond to crisis situation and knowledge of counseling skills.
- Ability and willingness to work various shifts.
- Must be able to obtain child abuse, state police, fingerprint-based criminal background check, and sex offender registry clearances.
- Valid driver's licesne required and must carry $15,000/$30,000 bodily liability car insurance.
Benefits:
- 12 hours of paid time-off each year,
- 8% retirement match after 1 year and 1000 hours of service,
- Mileage reimbursement,
- Time and a half for holidays worked.
- Shift differential for evening and overnoght shifts.
Hourly rate depending on experience: $25.80 - $28.29. Shift differential included.
WCA is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects our community and those that we seek to serve. If you, in good faith, believe that you are qualified to succeed in this position, we encourage you to apply. Please include a cover letter to tell us about your unique qualifications for the position. Our hiring manager will review your application and, if interested, will contact you regarding next steps.
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