Behavioral Health Clinician

Purpose

The Cedar Knolls House Hard to Place Group Residence serves girls ages 16 to 21 who exhibit a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges stemming from acute and/or chronic traumatization. All of the youth are referred by the Administration for Children’s Services.

The Group Residence provides supervised living units and programs of therapeutic and recreational services that emphasize family interaction and strengthening of community support networks, as well as increasing independent living skills.

The goal for all our youth is to transition them back to the community within a year of placement to a family member, significant adult connection, achieve housing, higher education, etc.

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 ladies 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.

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, 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
• 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/ Language Preference

License Master’s 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 preffered.
• Spanish speaking a plus.

Computer Skills Requirements

• Knowledge of electronic Health record systems or CONNECTIONS preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook and Word.
• Aptitude for learning new systems and application software Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office 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
• 27/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance

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.

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