Are you looking to be a part of delivering improved mental health services to the State of New York? Become part of a team of passionate social services professionals and begin a rewarding, life-long career in public service. The State of New York offers unmatched benefits, individual support, and career mobility for motivated individuals.
Who We Are: New York State has a large, multi-faceted mental health system that serves more than 700,000 individuals each year. The Office of Mental Health (OMH) operates psychiatric centers across the State. OMH also regulates, certifies, and oversees more than 4,500 programs, operated by local governments and nonprofit agencies.
What We Stand For: The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
What We Offer:
- NYS pension and retirement programs
- Annual cost of living and performance advance increases
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care
- Paid time off, including thirteen paid holidays per year, and paid personal leave, vacation leave, and sick leave
Job Responsibilities:
OMH’s Division of Forensic Services, Diversion Center is looking for highly motivated and organized individuals who are able to work well both independently and as part of a team, and enjoy a busy, challenging and creative work environment. The Diversion Center’s mission is to support jurisdictions in the development, implementation, evaluation and replication of initiatives to the reduce arrest and incarceration of persons with serious mental illness (SMI). The general services provided by the Diversion Center are the assessment of local resources, current practices, and gaps in services through sequential intercept mapping; researching, training and technical assistance for the identification and diversion of justice-involved mentally ill individuals from incarceration; and researching, training and technical assistance to develop and sustain Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs in communities throughout NYS.
The Aligning to Build Lasting Engagement (ABLE) team is a new initiative for the Diversion Center. The ABLE team will focus on individuals known to cycle through shelter, hospitals, jails, and prisons. This team will be responsible for establishing and monitoring data shared by law enforcement, correctional entities, hospitals, and providers to facilitate connections to services, including housing, and will collaborate with OMH regional field offices, local mental health providers, local law enforcement agencies, and other community stakeholders. The ABLE team will work with select pilot counties and then expand to additional counties in future years. The Mental Health Program Specialist 2 may perform the following tasks:
- Facilitate Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) to identify and understand the scope of services available in the local community, identify gaps in services, and make recommendations for system changes/service needs to address identified gaps.
- Collaborate with service providers to develop individualized plans to address barriers to treatment
- Conduct outreach to providers to address client disengagement
- Contribute to the development and implementation of innovative engagement strategies.
- Facilitate routine meetings with local stakeholders to discuss high utilizer cases and system issues, including barriers to engagement and connection to services; develop solutions to address system barriers in coordination with local partners.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
To be eligible for appointment, candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a qualifying field* AND three years of professional clinical or administrative experience in a federal or state operated, licensed, certified, or funded mental health program+.
+A master's degree in a qualifying field* can substitute for one year of specialized experience.
*Qualifying degrees: child and family studies, counseling and community psychology, creative arts therapy, criminal justice, health administration, hospital administration, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, nursing, psychoanalysis, psychology, public administration, public health, public policy, recreation therapy, rehabilitation counseling, social work, sociology, or special education
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $87,556.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10001