Job Information
Project Renewal, Inc. Team Lead, Social Work in New York, New York
Title: Clinical Team Lead
Program: Support and Connection Center
Salary: $70,000 - $75,000
Work Schedule: Sunday-Thursday, 3-11PM
Program Overview:
The Support and Connection Center provides 24/7 short stay, engagement, stabilization, and treatment services for adults with mental health and/or substance use issues referred directly by NYPD as an alternative to the traditional police responses of arrest, summons, or transport to an emergency room. Guests are referred to the Center when their infractions are non-violent and/or low-level offenses such as loitering, trespass, public inebriation, and disorderly conduct. The goal of the Center is to help guests begin to identify and modify the behaviors that result in repeated police contact. An OASAS licensed outpatient clinic, located on site, provides services to guests who are eligible. The maximum length of stay is 5 days.
Overall Responsibilities:
Under the general direction of the Assistant Program Director, the Clinical Team Lead conducts rapid assessments, engages guests in wellness, discharge, and aftercare planning, and facilitates linkages to community-based services and residential settings. The team lead also oversees a team of CASAC's and Peers and is responsible for the delegation of tasks to the team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The essential duties of the Clinical Team Lead include but are not limited to the following activities:
Provides direct care to guests through conducting rapid assessments to identify the full range of service needs and safety planning
As the primary counselor for a designated caseload - collaborates with the full on-site team to ensure coordination of care, individual counseling, treatment planning through targeted case management, and discharge planning
Promotes dignity-based care to reduce the negative effects of drug use for individuals at various stages of recovery
Models best practice, person centered, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented engagement skills for team
Counsel’s guests through individualized and group therapy sessions on issues such as wellness self-management, and community integration skills
Excellent verbal communication skills including an ability to have open and affirming conversations about health, sex and substance use risk.
Identifies and makes referrals for community-based treatment and support services.
Participates and facilitates daily team meetings
Inputs guest information and updates into the facility’s case management software system, ensuring all data is accurate and entered in a timely fashion
Promotes the professional development of supervisees through supervision, professional coaching, and training
Anticipates the needs of the clinical team they lead and executes
Qualifications:
LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LP or master’s level counselor with CASAC (All MSW, MHC, PC candidates must obtain NYS license within 6 months from date of hire)
A minimum of four (4) years of experience working with homeless and criminal justice involved individuals with either a diagnosis of mental illness or a substance use disorder, including experience in emergency or crisis services
Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds
The ability to work well in a highly pressured environment set and meets deadlines and delegate as appropriate
Strong communication and problem-solving skills, and ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders to understand and incorporate diverse points of view, styles, and approaches
An ability to lead, collaborate, and interface with guests as well as all levels of staff
Proficiency in case management software, electronic health records, and Microsoft Office Suite
A minimum of excellent oral, writing, and listening skills
Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer. Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.
Job Details
Pay Type Salary
Employment Indicator Regular
Education Level Master’s Degree
Travel Required No
Hiring Min Rate 70,000 USD
Hiring Max Rate 75,000 USD