Location: New York,NY, USA
DescriptionThe Center for Urban Community Services, a national leader in the development of effective housing and service initiative for homeless people, invites applications for a Mental Health Clinician position at its Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) program. An Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) team is a specialized mental health service team, designed to provide intensive, community-based support to individuals with current or past experience with substance use, mental health concerns, physical health concerns, involvement with the criminal justice system, and/or history of violence. IMT teams continue to provide services to individuals regardless of their location in shelter, on the street, in housing, hospital or jail.The Mental Health Clinician(MHC) will provide a full range of person-centered, trauma informed strengths-based clinical services to individuals who have cycled through the mental health system, criminal justice system, and housing system. Services include case management, entitlements assistance, counselling, advocacy, referrals and information, crisis intervention, engagement, monitoring, regular outreach, psycho-education, escorting to various appointments within the community, and coordination of care with outside service providers. The Mental Health Clinician will collaborate with the team's Clinical Supervisor in leadership of the team to meet contractual obligations and achieve program success while fulfilling CUCS's core purpose, values, and vision.RequirementsTitleMinimum QualificationsMental Health Clinician 1 Master's degree in social work, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, public administration, public health, human services, psychology, or related field requiredRelevant pre or post master's or internship experience preferred. LMSW, LMHC, preferred. Mental Health Clinician 2 Master's degree in social work, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, public administration, public health, human services, psychology, or related field required2 years' relevant pre or post Master's experience (excludes internships) requiredLMSW, LMHC preferred Excellent outreach, assessment, written and verbal communication skillsComputer literacy requiredBilingual Spanish/English preferredThis is a field based position. Must be able to travel to between the 5 boroughs