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This is a full-time position (40 hours per week) with State Benefits, including paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid holidays, retirement, and health insurance. To view an example of total compensation, please click here NC OSHR: Total Compensation Calculator.

This Licensed Mental Health Professional position with the NC Responder Assistance Initiative is a regional position and will be based in Raleigh. The selected candidate is required to travel within the Wake region, which is comprised of Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston, Orange, Nash, Northampton, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson Counties with occasional travel in other parts of the State.

Primary Purpose Of The Position

The Responder Assistance Initiative (RAI) program is seeking a behavioral health professional to address the mental health needs of Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) employees who suffer work-related primary and secondary trauma or stress arising out of critical incidents in addition to their ongoing dangerous and violent work environment in First Responder settings. This program is composed of licensed mental health providers, wellness coordinators, and peers who are deployed across the state. This program is integrated with the current Employee Assistance Program as well as other internal DPS peer-to-peer outreach programs. Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Providing direct counseling services and care coordination at an advanced level.
• Conducting individual, couple, and family therapy; program briefings; community outreach; training; and crisis intervention.
• Providing behavioral health screening, consultation, and crisis intervention on a regular basis via telephone and face to face meetings.
• Conduct biopsychosocial evaluations, individual, couple, family, and group treatment with participants and eligible family members.
• Deliver outcomes driven, evidence based and best practice clinical interventions. Develop and implement treatment plans, collaborate with providers, prepare clinical and discharge summaries, develop, and facilitate referrals as appropriate.
• Participating in critical incident response teams.
• Conferring with NCEM and RAI leadership and supervisory staff regarding participants clinical or behavioral problems to obtain recommendations concerning resolution of problems with individuals or as means for addressing problematic patterns and trends within the specific setting.
• Travel to various responder organizational units to provide outreach, education, and services within region and across the state as needed.
  
  

About North Carolina Emergency Management: The mission of NCEM is to enhance North Carolina's resiliency through active collaboration, communication, and coordination of efficient and effective preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation of all natural and man-made hazards and threats. It is part of the NC Department of Public Safety (NC DPS).

About Responder Assistance Initiative (RAI) Program

The Responder Assistance Initiative (RAI), that resides within the NC Division of Emergency Management (NCEM) as means for bolstering access to mental health and wellness (MHW) resources with NCDPS and first responder agencies throughout NC. RAI is comprised of a team of highly experienced and culturally competent providers and support staff regionally situated throughout the state. The RAI team includes licensed mental health professionals; professionally trained peer support consultants; and wellness coordinators. The program is designed to provide a mechanism for standardizing best practices in prevention and intervention that address impacts of potentially traumatic events, critical incidents, and professional and personal stressors characteristic of this high-risk work environment. Through an established continuum of care, this program provides access to information and resources including the highest quality behavioral healthcare, wellness initiatives, peer support/intervention, and consultation for larger systems support for public safety organizations. As part of a strategic and progressive business plan, the program is in the process of expanding eligibility for these services to various, external to NCDPS, law enforcement and first responder entities with the potential to extend programs to support the family members of responders who also endure impacts of secondary trauma related to public safety incident exposure.