The Jewish Board-posted 3 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • New York, NY
1,001-5,000 employees

The Youth ACT Team Licensed Behavioral Health Clinician works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children, ages 10 to 21, who have significant behavioral health needs and who are at risk of entering, or returning home from high end services, such as inpatient settings or residential services. This role involves providing highly individualized services focused on clinical treatment, family psychoeducation and skills development. The Behavioral Health Clinician provides service to youth and their families in their homes and communities and collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts. The role will require some evening availability and rotating on-call coverage.

  • Provide therapeutic treatment to the child and their family/caregivers to address the clinical needs of the child and the complex needs of the family unit
  • Engage and collaborate with child/youth and family as active partners in developing, reviewing, and modifying a course of care that supports the child/youth’s progress towards identified goals related to restoring, building or enhancing functionality as well as the development of a relapse prevention plan where appropriate.
  • Engage and support the child/youth and family in defining their desired goals and the action steps by which to achieve them.
  • Assess risk, develop safety plans
  • Provide on-call after hour crisis intervention services when needed to participants and their support network, including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization services.
  • Participate in both the development and implementation of a person-centered care plan that includes formal and informal supports that increase opportunities for improved quality of life. Focus is on creating meaningful and productive daily activities in the community.
  • Actively participate in Daily Team Meetings and serve as a core member of a multidisciplinary team, contributing insights, updates, and collaborative planning to ensure cohesive service delivery.
  • Monitor appropriate discharge and ongoing care planning at pre-and post-transition for individuals transitioning to community.
  • Establish collaborative working relationships and act as a liaison with community providers, Managed Care Plans, schools, and medical providers.
  • Complete case documentation and data reporting in compliance with productivity standards.
  • Monitor, evaluate and track participant progress toward care plan goals and adjust services as needed.
  • Foster relationships with community provides to ensure that recipients relate to appropriate services as they transition back into the community and to share or collect collateral information.
  • Appointment navigation by accompanying appointments-including but not limited to travel training, reengagement in community care, and ability to identify needs and barriers to services as well as making appropriate referrals
  • Attend and participate in team meetings and supervisory sessions.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.
  • Licensure (LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT) in a Behavioral Health or related field
  • A minimum of one (1) year of experience in providing direct services to children with serious emotional disturbance and their families
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, ability to learn electronic health records and other software as required
  • Able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.
  • Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to travel independently using public transportation.
  • Fluency in Spanish preferred
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