POSITION SUMMARY:
The Community-Based Clinician (CBC) serves as a clinician, trainer, and relationship builder. The CBC will work closely with a team of peers and other clinicians to perform community-based outreach and trainings, with the goal of connecting people to START or other health-related services, as well as building general awareness about behavioral health. The CBC role requires administrative duties, including recipient-related and interdisciplinary team documentation. The CBC will foster a practice environment with a health equity focus that is patient-centered, trauma-informed and applies evidence-based treatment and harm reduction interventions and principles to support people with substance use and/or mental health disorders.
This is a grant funded position.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The Community Based Clinician’s duties will be shared across the following areas:
Street-Based Outreach and Engagement:
- Conduct community-based field work focusing on people who use drugs, people with serious mental illness, and/or experiencing homelessness.
- Engage community members through street outreach, with the goal of providing psychoeducation on stigma, mental health, substance use, addiction, harm reduction and recovery.
- Perform mental health and substance use assessments, including risk and safety determination and planning.
- Link engaged persons to START and/or other health-related support and services, and conduct timely follow up.
- Initiate appropriate START field-based intakes and enrollments.
- Document engagements with community members.
Community-Based Training and Capacity Building
- Engage community members at designated health promotion events to provide psychoeducation on mental health, substance use, stigma, harm reduction, addiction, and recovery.
- Refer and link community members to START and other health-related support and services.
- Serve as a lead facilitator of community-based harm reduction trainings, including Naloxone delivery and overdose prevention education and evidence-based harm reduction interventions.
- Engage and build relationships with local community-based organizations.
- Provide psychoeducation to START staff (e.g., counselors, peers, etc.) focused on community-based care and complex care management for high-risk persons.
- Other duties as assigned.
Professional Development
- Maintain clinical knowledge and skills based upon current social work and health care practices.
- Maintain membership in professional social work organizations.
- Maintain the standards and educational requirements specific to the social work role and licensure.
- Maintain and update clinical knowledge and skills based on current health care practice/research
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES:
- Masters or doctoral degree in social work, mental health counseling, psychology, or other clinical field;
- Licensed Master Social Work (LMSW), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), or other clinical licensure
- At least one (1) year of experience with community-based outreach, engagement, or care
- At least three (3) years of experience conducting standardized behavioral health assessments, risk assessments, and providing treatment recommendations and longitudinal follow-up.
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Requirements
- Able to travel throughout the communities we support, primarily, NYC and Brooklyn.
- Able to work outside the traditional hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This position has no supervisory responsibilities
Physical Requirements
These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the position which are reviewed in each individual case.
While performing the responsibilities of the role, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit for prolonged periods of time and use his or her hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee may be required to lift an object weighing up to 50 lbs., with or without assistance. The vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
LIMITATIONS & DISCLAIMER:
The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT:
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