Open Positions

Interested in applying? Email your resume to Mindy Gallant, Director of Operations and Human Resources, at mindyg@crcwoodcounty.org

Crisis/Mobile Response and Stabilization Provider

$5,000 SIGN-ON BONUS

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In-person, community-based services including home and school settings

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Clinical & Crisis Services:

  • Treatment planning and crisis intervention

  • Coordination and assistance with crisis management and stabilization

  • Implementation of safety plans

  • Behavioral assessments and interventions

  • De-escalation and emotional regulation support

  • Detailed progress notes and documentation related to crisis services

  • Maintenance of accurate and timely clinical records

Coordination & Collaboration:

  • Assistance with linkage to natural and formal support systems

  • Coordination of services across systems of care

  • Collaboration with RU Program Manager, RU Therapist, treatment teams, clients, families, hospitals, schools, and community providers

  • Coordination of hospitalizations, Residential Unit (RU) admissions, and follow-up services

Community Engagement & Program Development:

  • Consultation with community members regarding crisis intervention and suicide prevention

  • Participation in presentations and trainings at schools, agencies, or community settings as requested

  • Participation in program development and evaluation

    • MRSS is a growing and evolving program; flexibility and adaptability are required

Qualifications:

  • Must hold an active Ohio license in Social Work, Counseling, or Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)

    • Bachelor’s degree with license required upon hire

    • Master’s degree with independent license preferred

  • Demonstrated passion and commitment to working with youth and caregivers in community-based settings

Required Knowledge & Skills:

  • Therapeutic treatment interventions and modalities

  • Crisis intervention techniques

  • De-escalation and emotional regulation strategies

  • Behavioral support and problem-solving skills

  • Basic understanding of suicide risk and self-harm behaviors

  • Experience with Child/Adolescent Behavior

Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to fully participate in physical restraint and seclusion training and demonstrate physical hold techniques as trained to ensure client safety when necessary

    • Use of physical holds is considered a last resort but is an essential function of the position

  • Ability to regularly stand, stoop, kneel, and engage physically as required when working with children experiencing emotional dysregulation, suicidality, or crisis behaviors

  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions

Transportation & Background Requirements

  • Valid driver’s license

  • Reliable transportation with current insurance

  • Ability to travel daily within the community (mileage reimbursement provided)

  • Satisfactory criminal background checks (BCI and FBI)

Work Expectations:

  • Conduct oneself in a professional manner at all times, including appearance and demeanor

  • Promote the agency’s mission and values

  • Consistently utilize trauma-informed care and practices in alignment with the Sanctuary Model

  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment

  • Apply knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development to appropriate interventions

Full-Time/Part-Time/Relief Behavioral Health Specialist

Job Type: Full-time, Part-time, and Relief shifts available

Work Location: In-person

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Provide direct supervision, support, and therapeutic interventions to youth in a residential setting

  • Implement treatment plans and behavioral interventions using trauma-informed principles

  • Support a safe, structured, and supportive environment

  • Accurately document services and incidents as required

  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members and supervisorsCase Management:

  • Provide outreach, assessment, and coordinated service planning

  • Identify resources within the agency and surrounding communities

  • Implement and coordinate service linkages

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in human services, education, or a related field or appropriate relevant experience

  • Strong experience working with youth (required)

  • Knowledge of trauma theory and trauma-informed interventions (preferred)

  • Must be at least 18 years of age

  • Ability to pass required background checks, including BCI and FBI

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

  • Stand, walk, run, and sit

  • Talk and hear

  • Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms

  • Stoop, kneel, crouch, and physically restrain children

  • The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Expectations:

  • Regularly work early morning, late evening, weekend, and holiday shifts

  • Be flexible with scheduled hours to cover unfilled shifts

  • Occasionally work mandated overtime and/or two shifts less than eight hours apart

  • The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Part-Time School Based Behavioral Health Provider

Job Type: Part-time

Work Location: In-person (services provided in a school, community, or virtual setting)

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Provide school based or community behavioral health services to children and adolescents

  • Assess child and family functioning, environmental risk factors, and client, family and environmental strengths

  • Develop, implement, and regularly update individualized treatment plans in collaboration with youth and caregivers.

  • Utilize evidence-based and trauma-informed practices appropriate to the youth population.

  • Provide crisis intervention and safety planning as needed for assigned clients

  • Maintain timely, accurate, and compliant clinical documentation in accordance with agency policy, Ohio Administrative Code (OAC), and payer requirements.

  • Coordinate care and referrals with caregivers, schools, primary care providers, case managers, and other involved professionals.

  • Participate in treatment team meetings, case consultations, and supervision as required.

  • Comply with all confidentiality, HIPAA, and mandated reporting requirements.

  • Maintain productivity standards and participate in quality assurance activities.

  • Attend required trainings, staff meetings, and professional development activities.

  • Other duties as assigned to support program and agency operations.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related behavioral health field (degree requirements may vary based on service level provided).

  • Ohio licensure or certification appropriate to the position (e.g., LSW, LISW, LPC, LPCC, MFT, or equivalent), or eligibility to obtain licensure within required timeframes.

  • Must meet all OhioMHAS and payer credentialing requirements for outpatient behavioral health services.

  • Experience providing mental health services to children and adolescents preferred.

  • Knowledge of child development, family systems, and behavioral health diagnoses.

  • Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Required Knowledge & Skills:

  • Strong clinical assessment and therapeutic skills with youth and families.

  • Ability to manage crisis situations calmly and effectively.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Proficiency with electronic health records and basic computer applications.

  • Cultural competence and sensitivity to diverse populations.

  • Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Work Expectations:

  • Services may be provided in an school, community or virutal setting.

  • Ability to sit, stand, and move throughout the workday.

  • Occasional evening hours may be required to meet client needs.

Residential Services Supervisor

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In-person / in unit

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Administrative:

  • Orientation and training of new Behavior Specialists and Relief Workers

  • On-unit mentoring, coaching and support to Behavior Specialists, Relief Workers, and Interns, provide timely feedback to individual staff

  • Development of therapeutic programming with clients; manage staff assignments in accordance with therapeutic expectations of program

  • Review daily documentation and communications, providing immediate feedback as relevant

  • Assist Behavior Specialists with de-escalation techniques and in debriefings with client

  • Identify and request program and unit supplies

Direct Services:

  • Adhere to agency policy regarding accurate and timely documentation including oversight of Residential staff documentation

  • Engage clients and caregivers in treatment, exhibiting empathy, sensitivity, cultural competence and respect 

  • Communicate with caregiver and Treatment Team to facilitate home visits

  • Serve as liaison with Transportation Coordinator to ensure pick-up and drop-off of clients, and to increase efficiency and safety of transportation for clients

  • Serve as liaison with Nursing Staff, coordinating client medical needs and ensuring successful medication administration by Behavior Specialists

  • Act as liaison with Director of Human Resources regarding interns and volunteers assigned to the Residential Treatment program including scheduling, orientation, training, monitoring and evaluations

  • Serve as liaison with schools regarding school safety plans and education plans

    • School Safety Plans:

      • Primary coordination with family, client and school personnel to establish individualized return-to-school safety plans

      • Phone support for residential clients as identified in school safety plan including support for clients who are experiencing physical/emotional escalation in school setting

    • Collaborate with caregivers to develop personalized education plans for clients who reside outside of Wood County

  • Provide Residential Unit shift coverage in the absence of appropriate staffing level

Professionalism:

  • Represent the Children’s Resource Center in a professional and respectful manner (including appearance and demeanor) across all platforms (i.e. in person, virtual, social media, etc.) within and outside of the agency

  • Promote agency mission and values through actions and communications 

  • Complete required trainings promptly.

  • Communicate in articulate, organized and grammatically accurate manner, orally and in written communications

  • Adhere to HIPAA, agency, state, and federal guidelines regarding client confidentiality 

  • Promote trauma-informed care by utilizing the core values and tools with clients and staff

Qualifications:

  • Experience working with behaviorally or emotionally challenged youth.

  • Knowledge of mental health diagnoses, symptomatology, and treatment programming.

  • Understanding of trauma-informed practices.

  • Satisfactory completion of criminal records checks (BCI and FBI) and state-required database checks.

  • Ability to work evenings and weekends if needed

  • Familiarity with electronic health records

  • Physical activity may include occasional lifting/moving up to 25 pounds and brief physical redirection or restraint. (Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions).