Instructor - Law jobs in Portland, ME

$2,500 SIGN-ON BONUS!

Sweetser has a brand-new position opening as a Law Enforcement Liaison! The Behavioral Health Liaison is a trained mental health professional embedded in the Brunswick Police Department and Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department to address the mental health and behavioral health needs of the Brunswick and Sagadahoc County communities utilizing evidenced-based behavioral health interventions. The liaison will work with law enforcement to co-respond to mental health calls and provide crisis intervention, person centered follow-up, referrals, and connection to services. The liaison will engage in outreach and relationship building activities with law enforcement and community members to increase awareness and understanding of behavioral health and resiliency.

$2,500 Sign on Bonus!

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Accompany first-responding officers to call-out situations, promoting an ethical, structured, healthy and helpful environment. Serve as behavioral health liaison to Law Enforcement Departments personnel.
• Provide follow-up services after police involvement and provide connections to community services and providers to address ongoing housing, food insecurities, insurance, employment, and mental health and substance use treatment needs.
• Provide individuals with case management support and advocacy until appropriate community resources are available.
• In appropriate circumstances, provide crisis intervention services including crisis assessment, disposition and short-term follow-up crisis counseling.
• Have a thorough knowledge of local resources and work to connect individuals identified by Law Enforcement Departments with needed social services and community supports.
• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of managed care and health insurance systems; provide other clinicians with managed care information and resources pertinent to the crises being managed.
• Establish strong working relationships with community providers.
• Deliver trainings and mentoring to the employees of the Law Enforcement Departments on the topics of mental health and substance use, stigma, Naloxone, harm reduction, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and de-escalation strategies.
• Participate in cross training of police personnel.
• Provide the departments with Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and Mental Health First Aid, as needed.

GENERAL EXPECTATIONS:

• Associate degree or higher in a social science or equivalent education and work experience.

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPECTATIONS:

• Valid state driver’s license.

• MHRT-CSP eligible