Health Home Clinician - Full-Time; 4406-602-N

Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens•Queens, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Licensed Mental Health Professional is to be involved in an innovative mental health treatment program that will provide short term critical time interventions to individuals as they transition from a hospital/ institutional settings to the community in Queens. The role will involve program planning and development, community based assessment and treatment of clients, and crisis management. The role will require on call coverage and a willingness to be flexible. Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services for over 125 years, offering 160-plus programs and services. Our Queens Transition Team (Pathway Home) works with clients transitioning to the community from a higher level of care. This multi-disciplinary team addresses the preparatory needs of clients in the early stages of recovery, discharge planning, development of daily living skills, and coping mechanisms through team and individual work in the community. The team will follow individuals into the community using the Pathway Home model of care to ensure that they become both linked and engaged with identified community providers. The team delivers comprehensive, community-based services for adults living with serious mental illness, and ensures clients have access to uninterrupted and coordinated behavioral and physical health services while addressing the social determinants of health that impact daily living.

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, mental health counseling, or marriage and family therapy.
New York State Licensed Social Worker or Mental Health Counselor.
A minimum of 2 years post-masters work experience in the mental health field
Knowledge of mental illness and serious emotional disturbances and substance abuse disorders.
Knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to consumers/residents, families, and staff.
Knowledge of techniques for identifying and preventing potentially violent behavior, including crisis management techniques.
Ability to develop, evaluate, implement and modify a clinical treatment intervention to meet the needs of individual clients.
Ability to prepare accurate and timely reports
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfort with public speaking, lobbying and advocacy.
Ability to train and educate staff.

Responsibilities

Review referral packages and conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to determine the consumer’s medical, psychiatric, housing and other social needs in the community.
Develop a short-term person centered treatment plan to assist the clients towards achieving their goals.
Monitor, evaluate and record client progress with respect to treatment goals.
Modify treatment plans according to changes in client status.
Establish collaborative working relationships with inpatient treatment teams and plan with them appropriate discharges for clients.
Foster relationship with community provides to ensure that clients are connected with appropriate services as they transition back into the community.
Counsel clients in individual and group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental and physical illness, family issues, housing problems and unemployment.
Escort consumers, when indicated, on appointments with community based treatment providers.
Provide ongoing psycho/ education to clients, their families and others within their support network.
Provide out of hours crisis intervention services to clients and their support network.
Work with clients and their housing providers to resolve clinical issues that are impacting on the client’s ability to manage and retain supportive housing.
Attend and participate in team meetings and supervisory sessions
Collaborate with Health Home care coordinators.
Perform other related duties as assigned