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Mount Vernon, WA - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Vacancy

1 Vacancy

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Location: Mt. Vernon NY
Salary: $65000 (LMHC/LMSW/LMFT) to $70000 (LCSW)
Schedule: MF 9 am to 5 pm 35 hours)
Paytostay Bonus: $5000
LMSW/LMFT/LMSW/LCSW and drivers license required. 60 Travel.
We offer great benefits 4 weeks of PTO plus 12 paid agency holidays; 85 reimbursement towards professional license renewals and testing fees and much more.
OVERVIEW OF PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES:
Provide clinical intervention including crisis intervention to participants in their homes and in community settings throughout primarily lower Westchester County.
Counsel participants on relapse prevention problemsolving and coping strategies to avoid hospitalization and loss of housing stability.
Work with case managers to ensure participants are connected with mental health and substance abuse treatment services; follow up on progress.
Complete SUD assessments/assessments.
Provide training and guidance to case managers in the use of evidencebased recoveryoriented approaches such as motivational interviewing harm reduction and critical time intervention.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS:
  • Support a highperforming culture aligned with TGCW core values and B.A.S.I.C Tenets:BalanceAccountabilitySatisfactionInclusion andCommunication.
  • Provide recoverybased services to a caseload of 2025 high risk participants.
  • Assist high risk participants living in scattered site independent housing with everyday life skills such as cooking cleaning shopping personal care learning to use public transportation getting to relevant medical and psychiatric appointments meeting the requirements of their lease getting along with neighbors and others decreasing isolation fostering community integration and productive use of leisure time and budget development and management.
  • Help develop relapse prevention and safety plans.
  • Review referrals for OMH contract and complete LPHA forms.
  • Provide customized individual and group training in specific life skills to address specific needs essential to each participants housing retention.
  • Assist and evaluate participants needs and develop plans for intervention.
  • Coordinate/attend conferences for high risk participants.
  • Provide: Integrated Supports
These services focus on assisting the individual to acquire retain or improve their skills in various areas that directly affect his/her ability to reside as independently as possible in the community. Provide crisis intervention support and counseling in a friendly and compassionate manner.
  • Maintain all appointments with individuals.
  • Offer services in a manner that is sensitive and responsive to each individuals cultural linguistic and lifestyle needs and preferences.
  • Function as a team member through attendance of weekly staff meetings with a mutual goal of contributing to program issues and updates on agency issues
  • Provide community outreach and home/office visits weekly/biweekly/monthly or as appropriate.
  • Assist and accompany participants to DSS & Social Security Administration for entitlements as needed to apply for and secure benefits.
  • Provide referrals and linkage of participants as needed to substance use treatment vocational training and various community resources and conduct appropriate followup. i.e. Health Home and Care Coordination providers.
  • Maintain assigned charts/cases
  • Progress notes
  • Service Plans (Updated every three months)
  • Participants consent forms (yearly or as needed) and other required documentation
  • Act a liaison with other service providers to help ensure appropriate service delivery.
  • Participate in case management and professional development activities such as trainings webinars and continuing education services.
  • Complete all other assignments.
QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES:
Drivers License at least 1year supervisory experience. Ability to use business acumen to exercise good judgment and decisionmaking. Ability to deal with sensitive issues with diplomacy and discretion. Commitment to cultural diversity and sensitivity. Ability to maintain a professional demeanor under pressure and operate with a keen sense of urgency and commitment to quality. CASACT or CASAC a plus; Bilingual Spanish speaking a plus.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
New York State Licensed Clinical Social worker (LCSW LMSW LMHC) minimum of 2 years working in a Mental Health/Substance Abuse Field Work History with diverse population.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to perform the jobs essential functions successfully. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the position which are reviewed in each case.
  • Must be capable to sit or stand in front of a computer for longperiods of time
  • Able to work in open space floor plan
  • Must be capable to move throughout work day (and follow individuals throughout the community)
  • Work alongside coworkers within 3 feet
  • Must be able to move in tight spaces
  • Occasional lifting of > 25 pounds
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