The Clinical Coordinator will be working with Young Adults, ages 18-24 who have a serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. The position requires the Clinical Coordinator to possess expertise managing clinical issues including substance use disorders, mental health and cognitive disabilities. The ideal candidate will have the ability to communicate effectively and respectfully withpeople from diverse cultures and backgrounds and be responsible for providing specialized assessment of Young Adults educational, psychological and social needs. This role will engage in collateral visits with health, educational and vocational professionals, develop groups, and evidence-based practice interventions and approaches for the population.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provides integrated counseling and holistic services that effectively engage young adults and promote personal growth and wellness, housing stability and accomplishment of service plan goals on an ongoing basis.
- Creates and maintains confidential records, charts and logs for youth documenting all relevant information from individual and group interventions as well as with collateral services.
- Ensures that youth's files are compliant with all regulatory and other requirements.
- De-escalates crises; attends to emergencies following agency protocol surrounding young adults’ goals.
- Advocates on behalf of youth with outside service providers.
- Escort young adults to offsite meetings, outside providers
- Conduct workshops on various life-skill issues, such as hygiene, anger management, self-esteem, and problem-solving, cleaning and laundry, job development, College Bound Track workshop, LGBTQI Training and Computer literacy Training.
- Collaborates and makes needed referrals with community providers.
- Participate in weekly multidisciplinary meeting assess assessment of strengths and challenges.
Requirements:
- MSW, LMSW preferred or BA required with 4 years’ experience in a relative field.
- Two (2) to three (3) years of management experience working in a social service or related
- setting, with people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities and people struggling with substance
- use, preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to interact professionally with diverse staff,
- consumers, and other stakeholders.
- Strong administrative and organizational skills.
- Previous experience working with adults with psychiatric disabilities utilizing the recovery model.
- Commitment to peer support.
- Ability to assess priorities and manage a variety of activities in a time sensitive environment and meet deadlines with attention to detail and quality of service provision.
Salary 63-65K
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $63,000.00 - $65,000.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Ability to Relocate:
- Bronx, NY: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person