Careers Job Description
General Description
The New York City Mental Health Service Corps (MHSC) is a key initiative of Thrive NYC: A Mental Health Roadmap for All– a comprehensive public health approach to mental health designed to promote and protect the wellbeing of all New Yorkers. The MHSC fills the too long neglected gaps in mental health and substance use services throughout NYC by creating a corps of approximately 400 mental health clinicians placed in high-need communities. Through best practices and a better design of care, the initiative will increase the diversity of behavioral health clinicians in the workforce and strengthen care where it is needed the most.
MHSC focuses on the recruitment, training, and support of early career social workers to become fully licensed behavioral health clinicians with a specific focus on incorporating evidence-based practices in primary care and behavioral health settings throughout New York City. Through a structured supervision system and task-shifting model, clinicians are able to obtain advanced licensure through the MHSC and strengthen their own capacity to be able to provide sound behavioral health services in marginalized communities and populations. MHSC is a city-funded program housed under Hunter College, CUNY and the Research Foundation of CUNY. All MHSC staff are employees of the Research Foundation of CUNY.
The Clinical Psychologist will be the primary therapist, providing evidence-based treatments and individual therapy, for a caseload of patients in an outpatient substance use disorder setting. Working closely with a Supervising Psychologist, the incumbent will be responsible for coordinating and supporting patients’ care within the clinic and for coordinating referrals to clinically indicated services outside the clinic. The Mental Health Service Corps (MHSC) will provide on-going coaching, supervision and special training and learning opportunities in key best practices.
Positions are available in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx.
Other Duties
- Provide direct patient care services to clinic patients.
- Conduct and document timely. Complete bio-psychosocial assessments.
- Provide therapeutic interventions drawing upon a wide range of treatment modalities, including crisis or emergency situations.
- Participate as a member of an interdisciplinary team for case assignments, case conferences, and development of person centered treatment plans and reviews.
- Carry a selected caseload using individual, group psychotherapy, and family modalities of treatment.
- Provide information, referral and linkages for patients and their families as needed.
- Maintain patient records as outlined by Medical Records, Quality Assurance, and MHSC and clinic policies and procedures.
- Prepare treatment plans, discharge summaries, and other related paperwork.
- Participate in regular clinical supervision with Supervising Psychologist (weekly individual).
- Participate in required staff training and development (including seminars, group supervision, or apprenticeship and other MHSC learning and professional development activities).
- Alert appropriate members of the MHSC administration of emergencies, which jeopardize the client's stability within the community or family so that all available resources may be used to meet immediate needs on an ongoing basis
- To maintain client confidentiality as guaranteed by the Social Security Act and HIPAA
- To follow MHSC agency procedure for reporting suspected abuse or maltreatment
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Doctoral degree from an APA-accredited clinical or counseling psychology program
- Completion of an APA-accredited internship program
- Commitment to 3 years of practice in the MHSC
- Ability to effectively engage in therapeutic relationship
- Ability to work with patients by telephone or in person
- Excellent written/verbal communication and organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting
- Strong commitment to work in a high-risk, underserved need community with limited access to care
- Sensitivity to diverse cultural and linguistic populations
PREFERENCES:
- Experience in the diagnosis and treatment of Substance Use Disorders
- Knowledge of city-wide community resources and mental health systems
- Bi-lingual and able to conduct therapy in English plus another language including, but not limited to, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Cantonese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, German, Greek, Italian, French, French-Creole, Portuguese, Hebrew, Haitian-Creole, Arabic, Egyptian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Polish, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, American Sign Language, etc.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
MHSC
Full Time
$60,000.00 - $60,000.00
Apr 30, 2018 (Or Until Filled)