Behavioral Health Clinician - Bridges to Care
The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services

New York, New York

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Make a bigger difference

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:

The Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) is a SAMHSA grant funded program. Its purpose is to enable the Community Behavioral Programs and Residential Programs in the Bronx support and restore the delivery of clinical services that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program effectively meets the needs of children/youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED), adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders.

The Bridges to Care team works directly with individuals with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or physical health conditions. Working primarily in the community, the clinician uses a recovery-oriented lens and evidenced based approaches to evaluate participant's strengths and resources, identify barriers to engagement in services, ascertain level of risk and appropriate services to manage risk, assist with managing and keeping appointments, provide psychoeducation and coordinate other aspects of participants' health and community services to support engagement. The clinician also provides crisis services to participants remotely or in person in the office or community.

The Behavioral Health Clinician works primarily in the community using recovery-oriented lens and evidenced based approaches to evaluate participant's strengths and resources, identifying barriers to engagement in services, ascertain level of risk and appropriate services to manage risk, assisting with managing and keeping appointments, providing psychoeducation and coordinating other aspects of participants' health and community services to support engagement. The clinician also provides crisis services to participants remotely or in person in the office or community.

The responsibilities of the Behavioral Health Clinician include:

  • Conducting assessments to evaluate participant's strengths and resources, current functioning, barriers to engagement, level of risk and identify appropriate interventions to manage risk
  • Providing evidence based interventions to enhance motivation to engage in services and supports, and reduce risky behaviors.
  • Providing individual, group, family, collateral sessions and crisis services/interventions
  • Be actively self-reflective & self-aware of how clinical and administrative practice impacts clients, families, and the communities we serve
  • Approaching work with an anti-racist lens and open to continuously learning and evolving
  • Liaising with families, schools, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care
  • Participating in clinical meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
  • Open and willing to receive constructive feedback
  • Maintaining documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies and/or funding sources
  • Maintaining professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented Behavioral Health Clinicians of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

  • Master's degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program AND
  • New York State License or limited permit in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), or social work (LMSW) required.
  • Knowledge and experience with evidence based approaches
  • Fluency in a second language is preferred.
  • Experience with telemental health platforms a plus
  • Proficient with electronic health record; Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook); comfortable and proficient using audio video platforms (i.e., Zoom).
  • Travel required between program locations and other Jewish Board sites.

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

  • Generous paid time off in addition to 15 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
  • 27/7 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.

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.

Other details

  • Job Family : Clinical Staff [300s]
  • Job Function : Misc Professionals
  • Pay Type : Salary
  • Employment Indicator : 8833 - Hospital - Professional Employees
  • Travel Required : Yes
  • Required Education : Master's Degree



 


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