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 expertise in managing clinical issues, including substance use disorders, mental health, and cognitive disabilities.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provide integrated counseling and holistic services that effectively engage young adults and promote personal growth, wellness, housing stability, and accomplishment of service plan goals on an ongoing basis.
- Create and maintain confidential records, charts, and logs for youth, documenting all relevant information from individual and group interventions as well as with collateral services.
- Ensure that youths' files are compliant with all regulatory and other requirements.
- De-escalate crises and attend to emergencies following agency protocols surrounding young adults' goals.
- Advocate on behalf of youth with outside service providers.
- Escort young adults to offsite meetings and outside providers.
- Conduct workshops on various life-skill issues, such as hygiene, anger management, self-esteem, problem-solving, cleaning and laundry, job development, College Bound Track workshop, LGBTQI Training, and Computer Literacy Training.
- Collaborate and make needed referrals with community providers.
- Participate in weekly multidisciplinary meetings to assess strengths and challenges.
- Maintain healthy relationships with the youth, mindful of boundaries and mutual respect.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Human Services or related field required, or Bachelor's degree in Human Services with 4 years' relative experience required.
- 2 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.
- 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.
Schedule:
Tuesday-Saturday 8am to 4pm
Pay: $29.00 - $30.00 per hour
Education:
Ability to Commute:
- Bronx, NY 10453 (Required)
Work Location: In person
