Job Description

• Provide compassionate clinical treatment in accordance with the scope of practice and regulations governing Article 31 outpatient mental health clinics.
• Manage workload using centralized scheduling that will require advance planning and coordination with supervisory and administrative staff.
• Conduct screening and assessment in accordance with the use of validated screening tools to screen and assess for depression, trauma, substance use, and risk and needs associated with criminal risk.
• Develop recovery-oriented treatment plans and reviews in collaboration with the client, collaterals, and consented stakeholders such as significant others, criminal justice personnel, primary health care provider, care coordinator, and schools
• Coordinate care with CASES psychiatrists, nurse practitioner, and administrative staff and closely coordinates with others including criminal justice staff (e.g., ATI staff/probation officers) involved in providing services to your client
• Use evidenced sequential screening for risk of violence and closely monitor risk and utilize risk management protocols to appropriately manage and intervene to effectively serve high risk clients.
• Document treatment contacts using collaborative documentation.
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation using the Electronic Medical Record (EMR); document all services in accordance with CASES policies, NYSOMH regulations and all relevant federal laws
• Engage in effective information sharing in accordance with confidentiality laws, policies, and good practice
• Meet required levels of service and productivity based on expected targets for kept appointments, utilization review findings, and progress of the client
• Demonstrate the ability to provide treatment that is recovery-oriented, supports evidence-based practice and can clearly establish the status of the client
• Conduct individual, family, group therapy as clinically indicated.
• Utilize best and evidence-based approaches to treatment consistent with CASES’ organizational culture; health/mental health integration, rehabilitation and recovery, and understanding incarceration on treatment engagement.
• Utilize dashboard data reports from the EHR to track client progress with symptom reduction, increased functioning, and use objective data to determine treatment needs and to support discharge planning.
• Provide culturally competent services that are individualized to client needs and reflect the integration of race, ethnicity, culture, primary language, immigration status, developmental status, criminal justice status, sexuality, age, and gender.
• Participate in Quality Improvement Measures.
• Report all incidents timely as outlined in CASES’ policies and procedures
• Maintain all applicable standards of audit readiness.
• Attend and actively participate in supervision and mandatory trainings, seminars and staff development activities.
• Any other duties as required by the supervisory and senior staff.

Qualifications

• NYS LCSW/LMSW/LMHC individuals
• 1-3 years of experience in a clinic setting or at least two years of work experience a licensed mental health or substance abuse program
• Strong knowledge of new Article 31 regulations (Part 599) and best practices in clinic operations also required
• High degree of computer literacy is necessary
• Demonstrated expertise in recovery-oriented, evidenced-based practice
• Demonstrated experience with diverse adults receiving mental health treatment, including delivery of treatment to individuals with serious mental illness, functional impairments and psychosocial needs (homelessness, justice involvement, poverty, unemployment, poor education)
• Bilingual Spanish a must
• Competence with electronic health records (EHR) and paperless charting
• Must feel comfortable with developing a group curriculum and facilitating or co-facilitating group psychotherapy

Additional Information

Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.