Clinical Coordinator

Services For The Underserved, Inc.•New York, NY

12d•$60,000 - $65,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Coordinator will be working with Young Adults, ages 18-24 who have a serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. The position requires the Clinical Coordinator to possess expertise managing clinical issues including substance use disorders, mental health and cognitive disabilities. The ideal candidate will have the ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds and be responsible for providing specialized assessment of Young Adults educational, psychological and social needs. This role will engage in collateral visits with health, educational and vocational professionals, develop groups, and evidence-based practice interventions and approaches for the population. One of goals of the program will be aimed at providing innovative and unique services to individuals coming NYS licensed residential treatment facilities (RTFS), state psychiatric facilities or have recently left the foster care system. The Young Adults will need to have the ability to live independently in the community if provided with supportive services or would otherwise be at-risk of street or sheltered homelessness if discharged to a non-supportive housing environment.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Human Services or related field required or Bachelor’s degree in Human Services with 4 years’ relative experience required.
2+ years of management experience working in a social service or related setting, with people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities and people struggling with substance use, preferred.
Excellent interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to interact professionally with diverse staff, consumers, and other stakeholders.
Strong administrative and organizational skills.
Previous experience working with adults with psychiatric disabilities utilizing the recovery model.
Commitment to peer support.
Ability to assess priorities and manage a variety of activities in a time sensitive environment and meet deadlines with attention to detail and quality of service provision.

Nice To Haves

LMSW preferred
Bilingual English/Spanish speaking preferred

Responsibilities

Provides integrated counseling and holistic services that effectively engage young adults and promote personal growth and wellness, housing stability and accomplishment of service plan goals on an ongoing basis.
Creates and maintains confidential records, charts and logs for youth documenting all relevant information from individual and group interventions as well as with collateral services.
Ensures that youths' files are compliant with all regulatory and other requirements.
De-escalates crises; attends to emergencies following agency protocol surrounding young adults’ goals.
Advocates on behalf of youth with outside service providers.
Escort young adults to offsite meetings, outside providers.
Conduct workshops on various life-skill issues, such as hygiene, anger management, self-esteem, and problem-solving, cleaning and laundry, job development, College Bound Track workshop, LGBTQI Training and Computer literacy Training.
Collaborates and makes needed referrals with community providers.
Participate in weekly multidisciplinary meeting assess assessment of strengths and challenges.
Maintain healthy relationships with the youth, mindful of boundaries and mutual respect.
Additional duties as assigned