Behavioral Health Clinician

Make a bigger difference

PURPOSE:
The Cedar Knolls House (Bronx) provides therapeutic and support services to adolescent's ages 17-21 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. Cedar Knolls 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 Cedar Knolls House. He/She/They are responsible for supplying necessary, culturally sensitive clinical interventions within the realm of the program. The Behavioral Health Clinician works closely with the division's medical, milieu, psychiatric and psychology staff, to ensure appropriate evaluations and treatment interventions for the youth.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Meet with assigned residents for weekly sessions, engage and remain in contact with their parents, ensure home visits are conducted, vocational/ Educational, psychiatric, recreational services are provided.
• Identifying and providing access to specific concrete services and community resources
• Engage families in planning for service
• Identifying and providing access to specific concrete services and community services
• 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 Cedar Knolls House for young women 17-21 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.

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 cooperation between them and consumer families.
◦ Provide crisis intervention, as needed.
◦ Other duties as assigned.

DOCUMENTATION:
◦ Complete paperwork, including case notes, FASPs, 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
• Liaise between department staff and middle managers/administration
• Good interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
• Solution Focused
• 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), with a minimum of one year of relevant experience with similar population. Or LCSW certification required.
• 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

WORK ENVIORNMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT:
• Travel in the community with residents utilizing agency vehicle
• Engage in physical activities with the youth
• Office-based work environment in busy community based mental health clinic

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED (List all that is required to achieve this position):
• Master's degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program and a New York State License in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), or social work (LMSW) required.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE (List what the desire to reach goals):
• Experience working with children / young adults is preferred
• Fluency in a second language is preferred

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):
• Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software
• Experience with tele mental health platforms 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

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.