Behavioral Health Clinician

PURPOSE:The Jewish Boards 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 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 ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Provide person-centered services to a caseload of individual participants including counseling intakes assessments treatment planning case management and discharge planningFacilitate a variety of recovery-oriented groups including groups with established curricula as well as the creation development and initiation of new groupsCoordinate PROS services for participants on caseload in conjunction with all PROS team members including vocational staff prescribers and RNCoordinate care with families friends medical providers residential programs care management criminal justice and other community agencies as neededPlan coordinate and facilitate activities and special events as neededSupervision of student interns as neededParticipate in clinical meetings case conferences staff meetings trainings and all documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board regulatory agencies and/or funding sourcesMaintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and proceduresOther 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 communication skills ability to collaborate well in a multi-disciplinary REQUIRED:Masters 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/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:Fluency in a second language is SKILLS REQUIRED:Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office softwareExperience with tele mental health platforms are a plusVISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORTThe work environment involves no physical risk or hazardous perform the essential functions of this job the candidate is routinely required to sit (90% of the time) and stand (10% of the time)