The incumbent provides emergent, in-person crisis assessment and intervention services to patients experiencing acute psychiatric distress, including suicidal ideation, self-injurious behavior, psychosis, severe mood or anxiety symptoms, trauma-related symptoms, and behavioral decompensation, as close to the patient's housing unit as operationally feasible, in collaboration with nursing and custody supervisory staff and in consultation with psychiatry. Under the direction of the Senior Psychologist, Correctional Facility (Supervisor), or the Supervising Psychiatric Social Worker, Correctional Facility, the incumbent serves as the designated mental health clinician on the institution's Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), an interdisciplinary team established pursuant to departmental policy.