(2063) Transitional Crisis Clinician, Mobile Crisis Outreach Team

Program Overview:

Bluebonnet Trails Community Services’ Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) provides community-based behavioral health crisis response 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, utilizing the least restrictive, clinically appropriate interventions to assess, stabilize, and resolve behavioral health crises in accordance with Texas crisis service standards.

The Transitional Crisis Clinician is a specialized crisis services position embedded within the MCOT continuum and designed to provide time-limited, intensive transitional crisis follow-up and stabilization services for individuals requiring ongoing support beyond the initial crisis episode. This role primarily serves adults discharged from crisis intervention who continue to demonstrate clinical acuity, elevated risk of decompensation, barriers to successful linkage, or a need for enhanced continuity of care during transition to ongoing treatment and community supports.

Services are individualized, medically necessary, and focused on stabilization, relapse prevention, risk reduction, and successful transition to longer-term services. Transitional services may be provided for up to 90 days, based on clinical need, progress toward stabilization, and continued appropriateness of the level of care.

While the primary focus of this position is transitional adult crisis care, the clinician remains part of the Mobile Crisis Outreach Team and may assist with crisis response, assessments, and interventions across age populations as operationally necessary.

Critical Impact:

The Transitional Crisis Clinician serves as the primary crisis continuity provider for assigned individuals requiring extended stabilization support following an acute crisis episode. This clinician delivers person-centered, trauma-informed, field-based services intended to reduce repeat crisis utilization, support recovery, mitigate relapse risk, and facilitate successful connection to ongoing care.

Services are primarily delivered in community settings, including homes, schools, hospitals, emergency departments, shelters, clinics, and other locations based on individual need and safety considerations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides intensive transitional crisis follow-up and stabilization services for individuals requiring support beyond the initial crisis intervention period
• Conducts ongoing risk assessment, safety planning, de-escalation, and crisis intervention as clinically indicated
• Maintains continuity of care for assigned individuals throughout the transitional episode of care
• Coordinates linkage and warm handoff to ongoing behavioral health, substance use, medical, housing, and community-based supports
• Provides person-centered recovery planning and short-term skill development focused on stabilization and relapse prevention
• Assists individuals in reducing barriers to treatment engagement, including transportation coordination, benefit linkage, appointment facilitation, and service navigation
• Collaborates with families, hospitals, first responders, schools, outpatient providers, social service agencies, and other community partners
• Documents services timely and in accordance with agency, payer, and regulatory requirements
• Participates in required team meetings, care coordination, and clinical review processes
• Assists with mobile crisis response activities based on operational need
• Participates in rotating on-call responsibilities, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as assigned

Shift Differentials:

• $2.00/hour – Evening
• $4.00/hour – Night
• $4.00/hour – Weekend
• $6.00/hour – Weekend Night

$30/day – On Call

Schedule Expectations:

Core availability for this position is expected Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM–2:00 PM.

Because this is a crisis services role, scheduling flexibility is required to meet individual clinical needs, crisis acuity, continuity of care expectations, and organizational operational demands. Work hours may vary accordingly, including participation in assigned on-call rotations, after-hours coverage, weekends, and holidays.

Applicable shift differentials and on-call compensation apply in accordance with agency policy.

Location: Williamson County

Hourly Salary Range: $25.23 – $32.48

Differential Detail:

• $1.00/hour- 2 years prior experience
• Up to $4.00/hour – Tenure with BTCS
•  $.75/hour – Bilingual
• $1.00/hour – LCSW-A, LPC-A, Advanced Licensure
• $.50/hour – LCDC Licensure
• $1.00/hour – Williamson County Crisis Team (included in  base rate)

Join our dynamic and enthusiastic Team dedicated to continuously improving the health and independence of the persons we serve.

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