1. 24/7 Crisis Response: Participates in mobile crisis response (may be alongside law enforcement or paramedics) to assess individuals in behavioral health crises, ensuring evidence-based de-escalation, evaluation, triage, intervention, and safety planning.
2. Mental Health Evaluations: Conducts immediate, comprehensive mental health evaluations for individuals seeking acute behavioral health care, including crisis intervention and evidenced-based risk assessments in both Vail Health clinics and community. Completes crisis evaluations in a manner compliant with internal, state, and legal regulations including the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) rules governing crisis response. 
3. Therapeutic Services: Provides trauma-informed and culturally responsive services that are patient-centered and reduces barriers to engagement. This includes short-term therapeutic interventions, 7 day a week stabilization services, and crisis resolution in both community and clinic settings, ensuring individuals are supported during and after a crisis. This may include individual, family, couples, and group intervention across the entire service line or within the community. 
4. Intensive Outpatient Support: Facilitates and supports group therapy sessions for adults (9 hours/week) and adolescents (6 hours/week), delivering evidence-based interventions and case management. Assists in biweekly therapeutic or medical visits, treatment team meetings, or consultations.
5. Co-Location and Immediate Care Access: Works in a co-located setting within Edwards Community Health Campus to provide immediate access to high acuity behavioral health services and ensures smooth transitions between crisis stabilization and other levels of care. 
6. Continuity of Care: Supports individuals as they transition from acute crisis stabilization to long-term care, ensuring appropriate referrals and continued support in outpatient settings. Coordinates post-crisis care with community-based providers, ensuring timely follow-up and engagement with ongoing treatment programs or case management.
7. Collaboration and Coordination: Collaborates closely with law enforcement, paramedics, physicians, and other behavioral health professionals to create individualized treatment plans and ensure seamless care delivery across all levels of service. Collaborates with peer support specialists, case managers, and other critical staff to ensure holistic care and support for individuals in acute need.
8. Documentation and Compliance: Maintains accurate, timely documentation of assessments, interventions, progress notes, and treatment plans, in accordance with clinical standards and regulatory requirements. All crisis documentation must be completed prior to completion of crisis shift and acute documentation must be completed within 24 hours. 
9. Clinical and Documentation: Maintains excellence in clinical documentation in alignment with local, internal, state, federal, and regulatory standards and compliance. Maintains excellence in patient care delivery and is up to date on changing law, regulations, or research that may impact care delivery.  
10. On-Call and Rotational Support: The role requires flexibility in shift scheduling, with on-call duties rotating on a regular basis to ensure 24/7 program coverage. Typical shifts may include days, evenings, nights, and weekends.
11. Burnout Prevention: Rotates leading organizational wellness initiatives, including routine debriefing sessions and peer support programs designed to prevent burnout and promote work-life balance.
12. Community Engagement: Serves as a community leader providing outreach, education, engagement across the community as needed. 
13. Role models the principles of a Just Culture and Organizational Values.
14. Performs other duties as assigned. Must be HIPAA compliant.

• Current, unrestricted licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), or Psychologist in the state of Colorado. Candidate applicants may be considered based on experience.
• Current, valid Colorado driver?s license, with ability to pass Vail Health?s Department of Motor Vehicle Report, required.

• Must possess, or be able to obtain within 90 days, the computers skills necessary to complete online learning requirements
  for job-specific competencies, access online forms and policies, complete online benefits enrollment, etc

• Master's or Doctoral degree in psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, or a related behavioral health field, required.

Benefits at Vail Health (Full Time) Include:

• Competitive Wages & Family Benefits:
  • Competitive wages
  • Parental leave (4 weeks paid)
  • Housing programs
  • Childcare reimbursement 
• Comprehensive Health Benefits: 
  • Medical
  • Dental 
  • Vision
• Educational Programs: 
  • Tuition Assistance 
  • Existing Student Loan Repayment
  • Specialty Certification Reimbursement
  • Annual Supplemental Educational Funds
• Paid Time Off:
  • Up to five weeks in your first year of employment and continues to grow each year.
• Retirement & Supplemental Insurance:
  • 403(b) Retirement plan with immediate matching 
  • Life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability
• Recreation Benefits, Wellness & More:
  • Up to $1,000 annual wellbeing reimbursement
  • Recreation discounts
  • Pet insurance

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About Vail Health

Vail Health, formerly Vail Valley Medical Center, is a nonprofit community health care system serving patients and guests from around the world. Locally operated and governed by a volunteer board of directors, Vail Health includes a 56-bed hospital, accredited by the Joint Commission. Our 24/7 emergency department in Vail is a Level III Trauma Center with a nearby helipad for necessary medical transports. Vail Health provides a wide array of services and access points including Beaver Creek Medical Center, urgent care clinics in Avon and Gypsum, our Edwards medical campus, Eagle Healthcare Center and a multispecialty clinic in Frisco. Howard Head Sports Medicine offers physical therapy services at 10 locations and works closely with our internationally renowned orthopaedic partners at The Steadman Clinic and Vail-Summit Orthopaedics. In addition, Vail Health's Shaw Cancer Center and Sonnenalp Breast Center are the region’s only fully accredited cancer treatment center and comprehensive breast center. The Vail Clinic, which was founded in 1965, officially became “Vail Valley Medical Center” in 1980, its first year as a full-service hospital. At that time, we had one primary locatio...n and 25 physicians. Today, Vail Health has locations in nine towns, nearly 1,000 employees, 260 physician partners and 85 volunteers. Vail Health is an equal-opportunity employer. The hospital is handicap accessible and adheres to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Smoking is prohibited in our facilities. This includes e-cigarettes.

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