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Social Worker/Family Specialist – Nathaniel ACT Team

Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES)

Description

Job Title: Social Worker/Family Specialist – Nathaniel ACT Team

Reports to: Team Leader

Overview: The Nathaniel ACT Team based in Manhattan provides non-traditional community based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of individuals with serious mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use disorders who are participating in alternative to incarceration (ATI) services. Our consumers are convicted of felony crimes and the ACT team facilitates their successful community reintegration and recovery from harmful behaviors. The Family Specialist delivers routine ACT treatment services and has lead responsibility for integrating family goals and services with the tasks of all team members and for providing family psycho-education. The team provides its treatment services in the community locations throughout NYC where our consumers live. Providing 80% of treatment contacts in consumer homes, shelters, and other community locations the specialist supports consumers to achieve wellness, recovery and positive relationships in the community. We are looking for a clinician with extensive experience working with adults with serious mental illness who are justice-involved and experience in family assessment and intervention, psycho-education and other family support services, including cognitive-behavioral strategies. Specific responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:
• Complete the family and trauma assessments, components of the ACT comprehensive assessment
• Identify services consumers should receive in ACT based on assessment of history, current relationships and supports, and immediate needs and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s service plan
• During the assessment obtains information: a) to establish the nature and degree risk of social relationships and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery, and b) lead the ACT team in daily meetings and weekly clinical meetings around family issues and incorporate findings into service plans
• Build in review and evaluation points, and modifies the service plan in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others
• Develop comprehensive service plans and 6-month service plan reviews in collaboration with the consumer and the consumer’s support system, incorporating principles of risk, need, and responsivity to help reduce participants’ risk for rearrest
• Involve family and significant others in the consumer’s treatment with the ACT team and provide psycho-education
• Complete 6-month comprehensive assessment and crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans, progress notes and significant data
• Provide individual mental health, relapse prevention, psycho-education based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral strategies Complete at least 68 face to face treatment contacts in the community each month
• Work effectively with community housing providers, education and vocational training providers, and self-help groups providing services to ACT consumers.
• Act as advocate and liaison for consumers in relationships with family, support systems, landlords and other community supports
• Assess and provide supports to consumer to address needs for problem-solving, wellness self-management, housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care.
• Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on rotating basis
• Provide 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community
• Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice

Qualifications

• LMSW, LCSW or equivalent with current New York State license
• Fluency in Spanish preferred
• At least three years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and those with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders and involvement in the criminal justice system.
• Experience understanding various evidence-based models and theories pertaining to treatment of serious mental illness, and risk, need, responsivity to criminal behavior
• Extensive knowledge of Assertive Community Treatment, community integrated treatment, support services, and resources
• Highly organized and self-motivated
• Proficient in computers

Salary

Commensurate with experience. 35-hour week with excellent benefits

Contact

How to apply: E-mail cover letter and resume in Word or PDF format to [email protected]. Please list the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Posted on 09/18/14; CVMHA ID #8181