BH/DS Clinician III

The City of Virginia Beach Department of Human Services is seeking to hire a candidate who has compassion and is dedicated to making a difference in our community working with adults and youth with mental health and or  substance use disorders for the BH Crisis/Emergency Services Clinician III position with our Emergency Services Program in the Behavioral Health Division.

The ideal candidate will have experience working as a Certified Preadmission Screener to include performing BH Crisis assessments / intervention, taking crisis phone calls and have worked with adults and youth with mental health and or substance use disorders in a behavioral health program / CSB setting.

Duties:

• Provide crisis assessment, intervention and prevention services to residents of Virginia Beach representing danger or risk of danger to self or others or inability to care for self as a result of mental illness and/or substance use.
• Provide pre-admission screening services to persons in need of voluntary admission to a private or state psychiatric facility or involuntary admission to any psychiatric facility.
• Provide consultation to community care givers regarding persons in crisis.
• Provide mobile, face-to-face, telephone/walk-in assessment of emergency and non-emergency mental health and substance abuse service requests with referral to appropriate agency or community providers for ongoing treatment services.
• Provide consultation to law enforcement, community providers and residents regarding persons in crisis.
• Serve as court liaison at civil commitment hearings as needed.
• Provide support services for department residential and in-home programs.
• Provide clinical documentation and assure that all filing of clinical information and submission of billing information are done accurately and within the time frame required.
• Provide information about fees for services.

Work Schedule - Varies based on program needs.  To expect overnight, weekends, holidays. Emergency Services is a 24/7 program. Applicant must be available to work varied shifts.

A $4,000 hiring bonus is being offered for this position.  Hiring bonuses shall only be for new hires of original employment or reemployment as defined in Human Resources Policy No. 5.0.

• $1,000 will be awarded in the first paycheck.
• $1,250 will be awarded upon completion of the six (6) month interim performance evaluation with an overall rating of “Meets Expectations”
• $1,750 will be awarded upon completion of the employee’s one (1) year probationary period and a performance evaluation with an overall rating of “Meets Expectations”.

This position is also eligible to receive a $6,000 annual stipend to be paid in installments over the 26 pay periods for Certified Pre-Screeners.

The City offers a generous benefits package such as health, dental and life insurance, retirement, and savings plans. Other key benefits include: 

• Maternity/paternity and parental leave
• Holidays and Paid-Time-Off
• Leave donation program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistant Program
• Professional Development