Pathway Home Team Leader - Postgraduate Center for Mental Health

JOB SCOPE: Licensed Mental Health Professional to supervise a NY State Office of Mental Health (OMH) funded Adult Home Care Transition team that ...

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

Knowledge of mental illness and serious emotional disturbances and substance abuse disorders;

Knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to consumers/residents, families, and staff;

Knowledge of techniques for identifying and preventing potentially violent behavior, including crisis management techniques;

Ability to develop, evaluate, implement and modify a clinical treatment intervention to meet the needs of individual recipients;

Ability to prepare accurate and timely reports;

Ability to manage multiple projects and ask for help when needed;

Knowledge of Microsoft office applications, including Excel;

Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders;

Competency in written, interpersonal, verbal and computational skills to present and document records in accordance with program standards;

Preferred familiarity with systems and tools commonly utilized across HH programs (i.e MAPP, UAS, EMEDNY, PSYCKES).

 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Master’s degree or higher in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Public Administration, Nursing, Public Health, Public Policy or a related field. A minimum of 3 to 5 years post-masters work experience in the mental health and criminal justice field with progressively increasing responsibilities, preferably with the target population.