About the Role
The purpose of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is to deliver comprehensive and effective services to individuals (age 18 and up) diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) and co-occurring substance use disorders. ACT is an evidence-based practice that provides integrated treatment, rehabilitation, case management, and support services delivered by a mobile, multi-disciplinary mental health treatment team to support recipient recovery.
Responsibilities
- Provide at least 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community and complete expected minimum monthly treatment contacts, including leading groups when clinically indicated.
- Attend and participate in daily team meetings to discuss clients’ clinical and case management issues and needs.
- Complete documentation required by the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DOHMH) licensing guidelines, NYS Medicaid billing guidelines, and CASES ACT Policy and Procedures.
- Collaborate with client’s support network and other service providers on treatment planning, service coordination, and case management support.
- Provide clinical services that are anti-racist, gender-responsive, culturally humble, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, client-centered, and evidence-based.
- Complete required documentation and toxicology tests for clients with active Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) orders and/or other court mandates.
- Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on a rotating basis.
- Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice.
Requirements
- LMHC, MHC-LP, LMSW, LCSW, with current New York State license
- Experience working with individuals with serious mental illness, and/or co-occurring substance use disorders
- Experience with various evidence-based models pertaining to treatment of substance use, and mental illness
- A team player, highly organized and self-motivated
- Proficient in computers
Skills
- Bilingual Spanish
- Experience working with individuals involved in criminal legal system
Location
- 2090 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10027
- 25 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- 80% field work
Salary/Compensations
- $66,950 per year
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days-off annually, plus an additional summer self-care day
- 12 Paid Holidays per year
- Retirement 403b Competitive matching up to 6%
- Employee Referral Program
About the Company
- CASES cares about employee wellbeing.
- At CASES, we like to move with PURPOSE, which reflects our values: PEOPLE| Hold people’s stories with dignity, UNITY| Commit to a shared mission, RESPECT| Celebrate the strength of diversity, PROGRESS| Always work to improve, OPTIMIZE| Make the best use of resources, SOLUTIONS| Work together to solve problems, EMPATHY| Seek to understand others.
Equal Opportunity
- CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.
