Mental Health Clinician, Safe Options Support (SOS)

ACMH, INC.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization as a Mental Health Clinician to support homeless New Yorkers in their transition to stable housing. You'll engage directly with participants, assess their needs, and provide critical counseling and community resources. This role offers flexibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of individuals facing mental health challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience working with homeless and precariously housed populations preferred.
• Knowledge of homeless resources and NYC shelter systems a plus.
• Knowledge of techniques for identifying and preventing violent behavior.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outreach and engagement with vulnerable populations.
• Coordinate housing solutions and provide supportive counseling.
• Monitor and evaluate participant progress in care plans.

Skills

Knowledge of counseling principles

Crisis management

Ability to assess needs

Computer proficiency

Education

Licensed master's degree or higher in social work

Mental health counseling

Nursing

Psychology

Tools

Health Information Technology

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

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Description

Description

Position: Mental Health Clinician, Safe Options Support (SOS)

Function: Community outreach on the streets and subways, coordinating participants needs before and after their move from street to home, enhancing their daily living skills, providing supportive counselling, and advocating on their behalf when faced with discrimination or healthcare inequities.

Reports to: Team Leader, Safe Options Support (SOS)

Schedule: Flexible days 9am-5pm (including weekend coverage/availability)

Tasks

• Persistent and assertive outreach and engagement using strength-based approaches beginning either at known “hang-outs” or “Hot spots” within the transit system or during an inpatient hospital admission or emergency department visit;
• Partnering and collaborating with current street outreach teams, local police precincts, local hospitals, the MTA, the Department of Homeless Services and family members/caregivers to identify those in most need of outreach and care;
• Continuously assess the health and social needs of participants through SOS’s conversational and observational assessments and formalized risk assessments tools for those identified as being at high risk;
• Work in collaborations with the centralized SOR Hub to identify available housing and to support participants through the process. Tasks may include completing HRA 2010e, applying for housing, prepping for interviews, follow up with housing providers, and assistance with moving in (day of move) with obtaining housing supplies and learning the neighborhood;
• Participate in hospital discharge planning meetings to identify the best community resources for returning patients;
• Provide short term therapeutic counseling and support to participants pre and post housing ;
• Supervise case managers and peers on the SOS team;
• Collects and reports data, as required and work with team leader, data analyst and other SOS teams to use data to inform future care delivery;
• Once housed work with participants and their housing providers to resolve clinical issues that are impacting on the participant’s ability manage, and retain supportive housing;
• Foster relationship with community provides to ensure that recipients are connected with appropriate services as they transition back into the community;
• Appointment navigation including accompaniment to appointments, travel training, reengagement in community care, and addressing barriers to care;
• Facilitating crisis interventions, referrals and hospitalizations as appropriate
• Review documentation and conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to determine the medical, psychiatric, housing and other social needs in the community;
• Obtain historical and collateral information from multiple sources to support participants behavioral and physical health needs;
• Monitor, evaluate and record participant progress with respect to care plan goals;
• Attend and participate in team meetings and supervisory sessions;
  
  

Requirements

Licensed master’s degree or higher in social work, mental health counseling, nursing or psychology.

• Experience working with homeless and/or precariously housed populations preferred but not required;
• Knowledge of homeless resources, NYC shelter systems, and MTA transit systems a plus.
• Knowledge of counseling principles and methods for mental illness and substance use disorders;
• Knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to recipient/residents, families, and staff;
• Knowledge of techniques for identifying, assessing, and preventing potentially violent behavior, including crisis management and de-escalation techniques;
• Ability to develop, evaluate, implement, and modify treatment intervention to meet the needs of individual recipients;
• Ability to prepare accurate and timely reports;
• Computer proficiency in Health Information Technology and Microsoft applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
  
  

This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician who is looking to transform community healthcare in NYC and making long lasting positive changes in the lives of homeless New Yorkers.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only job-related duties to be performed by the employee. You will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by your supervisor.

This position may require travel throughout the five boroughs of New York City.

Salary: $76,933 plus generous benefits

Please include a resume, cover letter and contact information for 3 professional references.

ACMH is committed to the mental and physical wellbeing of vulnerable New Yorkers and is a leader in the provision of outreach and engagement, care management, rehabilitation, crisis support, and supportive housing. ACMH is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization and seeks to promote actionable change to create an intentional culture of equity at individual, interpersonal and institutional levels.

For more information, visit our website: www.acmhnyc.org

ACMH is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment decisions based on race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, mental or physical disability, marital status, veteran status or citizenship status.

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