Director of Crisis Response Job at Charlie Health
Why Charlie Health?
Young people across the country need our help. The sad reality is that a mental health crisis has taken hold of our most vulnerable population—leading to record levels of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and self-harm. From Manhattan to Montana, this reality is compounded by issues of access, both geographic and financial. The mental health landscape is systemically broken, and our young people are suffering as a result.
Charlie Health has set out on a mission to reimagine how high acuity care is delivered to young people and families in crisis. Our initial offering is a virtual intensive outpatient program, which places peers with similar mental health experiences and goals into customized virtual groups. Our team of masters-level clinicians lead groups multiple times per week to deliver a higher level of care.
Our goal is to help young people and families heal together. Through a combination of exceptional medical and psychological care, engaged community partnerships, and best-in-class technology, we provide an unparalleled approach to recovery support that serves individual needs in an integrated way. Join us in our mission to ensure that every young person—regardless of location or socioeconomic status—can get the care that they deserve.
About the Role
The Director of Crisis Response is responsible for ensuring our clients receive the highest quality care during their times of greatest need. The Director of Crisis Response creates, enhances, and implements operational processes, protocols, and tools to ensure all crisis escalations are appropriately managed within a timely manner with the best outcomes. They provide supervision and mentorship to the growing team of Crisis Managers and Care Coaches, including performance management. The ideal candidate is a data-driven, go-getter that's not afraid to dig into the details and is looking to make a difference for adolescents and young adults across the country needing life-saving care.
Duties and Essential Job Functions
- Manage growing team of providers (i.e., clinicians responsible for handling clinical escalations, other client facing team members) including goal setting, productivity and mapping against key performance indicators
- Manage crises escalations as demand requires (minimum 5 hours/week)
- Enhance existing and develop new processes for crisis escalations during group and individual sessions, as well as overnight, weekends and post-discharge
- Work closely with Research and Clinical Outcomes, Care Delivery and Care Strategy departments in the execution of projects and ongoing development of crisis services
- Directly responsible for crisis response rate, client satisfaction and outcomes
- Provides flexible hours for staff to come and ask questions and to have client consultations
- Ensures that clinical crisis services are delivered in accordance with recognized best practices within literature and research with the continued development across modalities provided at Charlie Health
- Strives to keep Charlie Health's clinical services relevant and to the highest quality possible by consistently reviewing recent literature and research of the recognized best practices
- Takes initiative on individualized projects set forth by Leadership
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Work authorized in the United States and native or bilingual proficiency in English required
- 5+ years of management experience developing and leading teams
- Deep experience in care operations and crisis intervention required
- Background in adolescent behavioral healthcare or related fields required
- Independently licensed mental health professional
- W2 position, full-time with flexible availability (i.e., evenings, weekends)
- Ability to work in ambiguous environments and create a structure for yourself and your team
- Ability to function both independently and collaboratively in a totally remote environment
- Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, and listening skills, with a natural, consultative style
- Ability to energize, communicate, and build rapport at all levels within an organization
- Passion for working in a rapidly growing business with curiosity, humility, humor, and professionalism
- Proactive self-starter and natural multitasker
- Familiarity with and willingness to use cloud-based communication software—Gmail, Salesforce, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox–in addition to EMR and outcomes survey software on a daily basis
Perks
Our mentality is to find the best, attract the best, and pay the best talent—which is why we prioritize quality over quantity of hires. While we offer zero-stress medical, dental, and vision coverage, competitive salaries, life and disability insurance, and a generous PTO policy, we're way more excited to tell you about a few "perks" that are unique to Charlie Health. We've spent time thinking through what it means to be a mental health company and how we can better align these additional perks with our mission and values.
First and foremost, we believe that no one should ever have to compromise on their mental or physical health. This is why we offer a monthly wellness stipend for the mindfulness, talk therapy, nutrition, or fitness app or program of your choice (Headspace, TalkSpace, Noom, gym membership, Peloton, etc.). Our team is big on self-care, and we are committed to helping our employees live happy and healthy lives.
We also want you to live and see our mission in action. We encourage every employee—regardless of department—to shadow our vIOP sessions once per month. And while it's motivating to experience the care that we provide to patients, we also want to collectively celebrate their successes. This is why we host quarterly events to recognize alumni of our program and bring together patients and team members around shared experiences. Whether it be through a cooking class, a magic show, a comedy act, or a virtual talent competition, we want to uplift our patients and teammates, together. #LI-Remote
This role is not presently available in New York, Colorado, or California.
So—what do you think?
If you've made it this far, well, we're excited to meet you too. Just one more thing that we want you to remember: we pride ourselves on our meritocratic, performance-driven culture. There are lives on the line, and we have young people to save. There's no room for complacency. Your scope of responsibility and opportunity to make a difference will be uncapped at Charlie Health, but we need your commitment that you will work tirelessly for our patients, parents, and partners. At the end of day, our team is committed to helping you succeed at Charlie Health because when you succeed, our patients succeed, and we get one step closer to solving the mental health crisis. We're hopeful that this role will give you the experience to go and do whatever you want in life but the fulfillment to make you never want to leave our team. We look forward to solving the mental health crisis, together.
Please do not call our public clinical admissions line in regards to this or any other job posting.
Recruiting agencies, please do not submit unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We have a roster of agencies with whom we partner, and we will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals.
At Charlie Health, we value being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to cultivate an environment where individuals can be their authentic selves. Being an Equal Opportunity Employer means every member of our team feels as though they are supported and belong. We value diverse perspectives to help us provide essential mental health and substance use disorder treatments to all young people.
Charlie Health applicants are assessed solely on their qualifications for the role, without regard to disability or need for accommodation.
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