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About the Role
The Criminal Justice Specialist is a Master’s level mental health clinician who outreaches clients in the community to provide treatment and services with high fidelity to the ACT model. This role provides engagement services and psychoeducation to clients, and liaises and advocates for clients within the criminal legal system. The Nathaniel Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team is a multi-disciplinary, alternative to-incarceration (ATI) program that provides evidence-based, mobile, community mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of individuals age 18 and up with serious mental illnesses, high rates of co-occurring substance use disorders, high utilization of emergency/crisis services, and criminal legal involvement in Manhattan or Brooklyn courts.
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
- 424 East 147th Street, Bronx, NY 10455
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Education Level
- Master's level
Salary/Compensations
- $68,959 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.
- 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.
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.