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About the Role

The Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) Harm Reduction Specialist is an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team of mental health clinicians. The Specialist engages participants through harm reduction strategies, ensuring the team remains grounded in harm reduction philosophy and practices. This role brings a social justice lens to the work and serves as a resource for team members on mental health and co-occurring substance use issues.

Responsibilities

Engage participants through harm reduction strategies, including motivational interviewing and stage-wise interventions.
Help the team stay grounded in harm reduction philosophy and strategies such as radical acceptance, person-centered engagement, uplifting self-determination, offering low-threshold services, maximizing options, and using Peer-informed and trauma-informed approaches.
Apply a social justice lens to the work.
Serve as a resource to other team members on issues related to mental health and co-occurring substance use.
Use and share a harm reduction lens and approach when working with participants engaging in potentially risky behaviors.
Complete required assessments and evaluations on time.
Complete progress notes for all contacts, collaterals, and engagement attempts within 2 business days.
Maintain harm reduction toolbox inventory.
Submit OOPP reports on time.
Regularly attend agency Harm Reduction Committee meetings.

Requirements

Have an understanding, appreciation, and commitment to the philosophy and mission of Community Access.
Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants’ rights, and self-determination in service provision.
Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with individuals with a mental health condition with co-occurring substance use disorder.
Available to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, evenings, and weekends.
Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
Be creative and flexible.
Able to show initiative and be responsible for follow-through.
Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Skilled in conflict mediation/negotiation.
Assertive approach to problem solving.
Must be able to work in the community, including use of public transportation across the boroughs.
Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as comfort with learning new electronic systems.
Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center.

Skills

Harm reduction strategies
Motivational interviewing
Stage-wise interventions
Radical acceptance
Person-centered engagement
Uplifting self-determination
Low-threshold services
Maximizing options
Peer-informed approaches
Trauma-informed approaches
Uplifting human rights
Social justice lens
Conflict mediation/negotiation
Problem solving
Computer proficiency (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Bilingual Spanish-speaking (preferred)

Location

New York City

Work Type

Mobile
Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum of two (2) years’ experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, Criminal Justice or other Health and Human Services related field
LMSW preferred

About the Company

Community Access was founded in 1974 to provide housing and support for people being discharged from psychiatric institutions.
One of the leading providers of supportive and affordable housing in New York City.
Originators of an integrated housing model which has become a best practice nationally.
Provides affordable housing where families live alongside people living with mental health concerns.
Staff work daily to support thousands of New Yorkers through supportive and affordable housing, peer-driven residential crisis support programs, training, advocacy, supported education, mobile treatment and other healing-focused services.
Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) is an innovative, creative, trauma-informed mobile practice model designed to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to individuals whose needs have not been met by traditional services.
IMT participants interact with homeless services, criminal justice, and behavioral health service systems.
IMT teams are hired, trained and funded to maximize flexibility and continuity of care for persons who historically have been poorly served.
IMT teams serve individuals who are street homeless or living between institutional settings and housing.
Team members work collaboratively with settings in which the participant is living and use assertive engagement strategies to proactively engage individuals in services.
IMT team members share responsibility for the people they serve, helping individuals attain housing and other personal and safety goals.
IMT teams are multi-disciplinary and include psychiatry, nursing, social work, peer specialists and other staff members offering rehabilitation, treatment and recovery support services.
The team provides expertise in the areas of housing, substance use and harm reduction, criminal justice, peer support and behavioral health recovery.
Services are brought to the participant and offered in natural settings, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

Equal Opportunity

Community Access is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V.
Women, People of Color and Members of the LGBT community are strongly encouraged to apply.