Behavioral Health Clinician
At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.
Reasons you’ll love working with us:
· If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
- We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
- With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
- Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
- We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
- You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.
How you can make a bigger difference:
PURPOSE:
The Kaplan House (Manhattan) provides therapeutic and support services to adolescent’s ages 16-21 years old, who are referred to us through ACS and the Juvenile Justice system. Our residents have experienced significant trauma, resulting in behavioral, emotional, and functional/ development issues. Kaplan House offers an extensive independent living skills program, including vocational preparation, and educational services that assists youth towards reaching independence.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Behavioral Health Clinician is a key member of the therapeutic team at Kaplan House. He/She/They are responsible for providing necessary, culturally sensitive clinical interventions within the realm of the program. The Behavioral Health Clinician works closely with the medical, milieu, psychiatric and fair futures staff, to ensure appropriate evaluations, treatment interventions and safety planning for the youth.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):
- Meet with assigned residents for weekly sessions, engage and remain in contact with their parents, ensure medical, psychiatric, recreational services are provided.
- Collaborate with the Fair Futures team re: vocational/ Educational and housing services.
- Identifying and providing access to specific concrete services and community resources.
- Engage families in planning for service.
- Advocate, as necessary, with external resources such as mental health providers, treatment facility, FCLS, community members etc. on behalf of the residents.
- Provide individual, family, and group counseling both on-site at Kaplan House for young men 16-21 years old.
- Liaise between program, family court, ACS, case planners, youth’s family members, and relevant community members.
- Attend other planned ACS and school conferences, as well as court hearings.
- Facility weekly theraputic groups.
TEAM PROCESS:
- Participate in weekly team meetings, and may lead the meeting on occasion.
- Prepare integrative treatment plan, based on all assessments from the other professionals.
- Ensure follow-up as necessary from meetings.
- Conduct meetings to ensure proper treatment, progress in program and coordination of goals.
- Provide psychoeducation and intervention support to Direct Support Professionals.
- Work with Direct Support Professionals to enhance communication and collaboration between them and the clients’ families.
- Provide crisis intervention, as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
DOCUMENTATION:
- Complete paperwork, including case notes, FASPs, PHR’s and court reports, in a timely manner.
- Complete psychosocial assessment within the first 30 days of youth’s admission.
- Participate in audit preparation.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Commitment to recovery-oriented trauma-informed practice
- Embraces youth-guided family-driven care
- Promotes teamwork
- Takes initiative, self-starter
- Good interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
- Solution focused and strengths base approach.
- Uses Data to Inform & Guide Practice
- Values and Demonstrates Cultural Competency
- Values professional development and participation in clinical supervision and training
EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:
- License Masters in Social Work (LMSW), License Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) or Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) with a minimum of one year of relevant experience with similar population,
- Valid Driver’s License required.
- Spanish speaking a plus.
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Knowledge of electronic medical systems or CONNECTIONS preferred
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook and Word
- Aptitude for learning new systems and application software
- Experience with telemental health platforms a plus.
WORK ENVIORNMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT:
- Travel in the community with residents utilizing agency vehicle
- Engage in physical activities with the youth
- Walk up and downs stairs.
VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:
- The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.
If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:
- Generous paid time off 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.