Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Charlotte County Sheriff's Office Mental Health Counselor

Compensation

$46,413 Annually

Benefits Offered

401K, Dental, Life, Medical, Vision

Employment Type

Full-Time

Why Work Here?

“Great place to work with excellent benefits! FRS, Employee Health Clinic, and much more!”
Job Summary
Along with CIT trained officers, provides effective screenings and crisis counseling to at-risk individuals and families in their homes or the community. Work with individuals and families to prevent crisis and promote treatment engagement, while assessing risk ongoing. May help individuals deal with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; suicide; stress management; financial issues; and issues associated with aging and mental and emotional health. Provides for monitoring, engagement, and coordination with Sheriffs’ Office personnel and CBHC and other behavioral health providers, providing interventions to persons presenting in crisis. Must be very familiar with and actively refer to various social service resources in Charlotte and surrounding counties. Receive referrals from the Sheriff’s Office members (typically individuals with many dispatches for MH related issues and senior referrals), schools and from providers, monitoring of those identified in need of services (and often) encouragement to engage in treatment to try and avert persons ‘falling through the system’s cracks.’ Maintains accurate, complete and up-to-date documentation in accordance with the internal and external audit standards; providing clinical services as needed, cooperating with agency staff and external partners, and interacting with the community on behalf of the program. Perform screenings and other clinical services. The position is to be proactive so we are not responding in an immediate crisis situation, but rather, when there are a few red flags that someone might be higher risk and not engaging in needed treatment.
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