About the Role
Deliver evidence-based, mobile mental health services with high fidelity to the ACT model, supporting adults with serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders, and extensive criminal legal system involvement. Build strong therapeutic relationships through community outreach, engagement, and psychoeducation while helping clients achieve recovery, maintain stability, and successfully complete their ATI mandates. Serve as a vital liaison between clients, the Nathaniel ACT Team, and the criminal legal system, providing court updates, coordinating continuity of care during incarceration, advocating with defense attorneys, and helping clients navigate legal processes. Contribute broadly to all aspects of client care within a multidisciplinary ACT team, applying clinical strengths and expanding expertise to provide comprehensive, person-centered services that promote long-term recovery and successful community integration. Make a meaningful impact by helping individuals build healthier, more stable lives while advancing equitable, treatment-focused alternatives to incarceration.
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 documentations 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 as well as per CASES ACT Policy and Procedures.
- Collaborate with client’s support network and other service providers on treatment planning, service coordination, and case management support with the goal of promoting client’s recovery and stability in the community.
- Provide clinical services that are anti-racist, gender-responsive, culturally humble, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, client-centered, and evidence-based.
- Complete required documentations and toxicology tests for clients with active Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) order.
- Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on 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.
- Individuals with lived experience are encouraged to apply.
Skills
- Experience working with individuals involved in the criminal legal system.
- Fluency in Spanish.
Location
- 25 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Work Type
- Full-time
- Flexible
- Office starts 4 days per week
- Community work is 5 days per week
- Can finish notes at home
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.
- CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
