The Diversity Specialist will possess expertise in assisting, advocating, and empowering both Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (CMRSS) team and families on addressing and building resiliency against cultural and identity barriers. Intervenes in crisis situations through mobile outreach response.  Interviews clients, performs assessment and crisis interventions, creates individual crisis plans and provides case management by making linkage and referrals.  Reaches out to post intervention clients to perform follow-up.  Responds to crisis outreach immediately and is on-site of the crisis within one hour of receiving crisis outreach call.  On-call as needed.  Answers 24-hour hotline, as scheduled.  Works in a team approach.  The individual demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the consumer population served.  He or she must be able to assess and interpret data about the consumer’s status in order to identify each consumer’s needs and provide the appropriate care, including age-related care, needed by the consumer group.  Must attend at least one training quarterly in identified specialty area.  Must demonstrate knowledge of identified specialty area and must provide educational group for CMRSS team at least two times per year. Responsible to serve as resource to team members on identified specialty area. Represents program and agency in the community.  

 

Legacy operates the State-designated Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization program for Burlington County. The program provides crisis intervention to families with a child or youth exhibiting emotional or behavioral disturbances that threaten to disrupt their current living arrangements. Trained response workers diffuse crises at the site of the crisis for up to 72 hours. They work with the family to develop an individualized crisis plan and coordinate in-home follow-up intervention services for up to eight weeks.

 

Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

 

Hours

Position is full time; Some weekend and evening hours are required.

Full time benefits include:

3.2 weeks of PTO in first year Health insurance, vision, dental & life insurance benefits 403(b) employee participation and employer match 9 Agency-paid holidays Training opportunities provided throughout the year Retention bonus offered biannually, $1,500 for full time staff Sign on bonuses of $500 after 30 days; $500 after 90 days Scheduled flexibility