Behavioral Health Clinician

Make a bigger difference

PURPOSE:

The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally affirming, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Behavioral Health Clinician will provide culturally competent and sensitive clinical care in an OMH licensed outpatient PROS Program. This program treats individuals across the developmental spectrum who presents with behavioral health issues. The interventions include: evaluations; individual, group and/or family therapy; case management; and crisis interventions.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide person-centered services to a caseload of individual participants, including counseling, intakes, assessments, treatment planning, case management, and discharge planning
• Facilitate a variety of recovery-oriented groups, including groups with established curricula, as well as the creation, development and initiation of new groups         
• Coordinate PROS services for participants on caseload in conjunction with all PROS team members, including vocational staff, prescribers, and RN
• Coordinate care with families, friends, medical providers, residential programs, care management, criminal justice, and other community agencies as needed
• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate activities and special events as needed            
• Supervision of student interns as needed      
• Participate in clinical meetings, case conferences, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
• Maintain all documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies and/or funding sources
• Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures
• Other tasks as needed, e.g., group or individual case coverage; kitchen duties, addressing transportation needs, specialization in services for a sub-population (e.g., co-occurring disorders, young adults, entitlements and benefits, tobacco use, etc.)

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

• Strong clinical direct practice skills and knowledge of evidenced based practices.
• Strong communication skills, ability to collaborate well in a multi-disciplinary team.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:

• Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program AND a New York State License or limited permit in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), or social work (LMSW) required. 

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

• Fluency in a second language is preferred.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software
• Experience with tele mental health platforms are a plus

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:

• The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT

•  The work environment involves no physical risk or hazardous conditions.

•  To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit (90% of the time) and stand (10% of the time)

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans 
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities 
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation 
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program  
• Life and disability insurance 
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee 

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us. 

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

 We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.