Behavioral Health Clinician

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused health organization is seeking a Licensed Behavioral Health Clinician to work with youth aged 10 to 21 facing significant behavioral health needs. The Clinician will provide individualized treatment and support to families, enhance family functioning, and collaborate closely with other service providers. Candidates should have a relevant behavioral health licensure and experience with children in clinical settings. Flexible hours and travel within NYC are required.

Qualifications

• Licensed in a Behavioral Health or related field.
• Minimum one year of experience with children with serious emotional disturbance.
• Fluency in Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide treatment to youth and families.
• Engage families in care planning.
• Assess risk and provide crisis intervention.
• Collaborate with community providers and schools.
• Monitor participant progress towards care goals.

Skills

Knowledge of mental illness

Trauma-informed service delivery

Proactive therapeutic interventions

Building therapeutic relationships

Empowerment of youth and families

Team collaboration

Education

Licensure in Behavioral Health (LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT)

1+ year experience with children

Fluency in Spanish

Tools

Microsoft Office

Electronic health records

Job description

Purpose

Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services are focused on improving or ameliorating the significant functional impairments and severe symptomatology experienced by youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Clinical and rehabilitative interventions are also focused on enhancing family functioning to foster health, wellbeing, stability and re‑integration for youth who are returning home after residential treatment or in‑patient hospitalization.

The Youth ACT Team is a multi‑disciplinary team that works together to provide family‑driven, youth‑guided and developmentally appropriate services to comprehensively address the needs of youth within the family, school, medical, behavioral, psychosocial and community domains.

Position Overview

The Youth ACT Team Licensed Behavioral Health Clinician works as part of a multi‑disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children, ages 10 to 21, who have significant behavioral health needs and who are at risk of entering, or returning home from, high‑end services such as inpatient settings or residential services. The role involves providing highly individualized services focused on clinical treatment, family psychoeducation and skills development. The Behavioral Health Clinician provides services to youth and families in their homes and communities and collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts. The role will require some evening availability and rotating on‑call coverage.

Responsibilities

• Provide treatment to the child and their family/caregivers to address the clinical needs of the child and the complex needs of the family unit.
• Engage child/youth and family as active partners in developing, reviewing, and modifying a course of care that supports the child/youth’s progress towards identified goals related to restoring, building or enhancing functionality as well as the development of a relapse prevention plan where appropriate.
• Engage the child/youth and family in defining their desired goals and the action steps by which to achieve them.
• Assess risk, develop safety plans and provide crisis intervention services.
• Participate in both the development and implementation of a person‑centered care plan that includes formal and informal supports that increase opportunities for improved quality of life. Focus is on creating meaningful and productive daily activities in the community.
• Actively participate and function as part of a multi‑disciplinary team providing services, as a unit, to youth and families.
• Monitor appropriate discharge and ongoing care planning at pre‑ and post‑transition for individuals transitioning to community.
• Establish collaborative working relationships and act as a liaison with community providers, Managed Care Plans, schools, and medical providers.
• Complete casework documentation and collect and report data, as required, while adhering to productivity standards.
• Foster relationships with community providers to ensure that recipients receive appropriate services as they transition back into the community and to share or collect collateral information.
• Navigate appointments by accompanying to appointments—including but not limited to travel training, re‑engagement in community care, and the ability to identify needs and barriers to services as well as making appropriate referrals.
• Monitor, evaluate and record participant progress with respect to care plan goals.
• Provide on‑call after‑hour crisis intervention services when needed to participants and their support network, including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization services.
• Attend and participate in team meetings and supervisory sessions.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Core Competencies

• Knowledge of mental illness, serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders.
• Delivers services that are trauma‑informed and attend to cultural considerations and incorporate an anti‑oppressive lens.
• Proactive in terms of therapeutic interventions, continuous monitoring and engagement efforts.
• Commitment to building and strengthening therapeutic and family relationships across all interactions.
• Identifies and builds on individual, family and community strengths; empowers youth and families.
• Ability to develop, evaluate, implement and modify a clinical treatment plan/intervention to meet the needs of individual youth and families with a focus on achievable outcomes.
• Team player who functions well in a multi‑disciplinary team environment.
• Ability to document assessments, plans and interventions.

Educational / Training Required

• Licensure (LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT) in a Behavioral Health or related field.
• A minimum of one (1) year of experience in providing direct services to children with serious emotional disturbance and their families.
• Fluency in Spanish preferred.

Computer Skills Required

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and the ability to learn electronic health records and other software as required.

Work Environment / Physical Effort

• Frequent travel throughout the assigned borough (Bronx or Queens); infrequent travel throughout NYC.

We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.