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Form of workFor over 117 years, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, and currently offers 160-plus programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and those struggling with mental illness.
he Queens Transitional Team provides intensive wraparound services for the severely chronically mentally ill with 6-9 months of intensive case management. Services include counseling, coordination of psychiatric and medical care, community access to services, nursing and medication management.
STATEMENT OF THE JOB:
This is a direct care position assigned to the Pathway Home transition team in Queens. Workers in this job category perform a wide variety of tasks related to the care, support, education, socialization, habilitation, recovery/healing, safety, security, and support of adults diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse disorder who are transitioning to various levels of independent housing setting. These tasks focus on supporting, instructing, and assisting recipients of services to develop the skills needed to live, work, and socialize successfully in the community environments of their choice and also in maintaining a safe living environment. In addition, workers also advocate for clients and support families or other caregivers in their efforts to assist these individuals. The role will also require on call coverage and a willingness to be flexible.
- Engage in-patient clients at acute care hospitals, state psychiatric centers or state operated residences and participate in the coordination of their discharge.
- Provide intensive emotional and practical support to clients as they transition back into their communities and into a support housing living environment.
- Conduct home visits as assigned.
- Develop short term person centered treatment plans to assist client towards achieving their goals.
- Monitor and record client's progress with respect to treatment goals.
- Instruct individuals and provide assistance in attending to personal hygiene, grooming, nutrition and daily living.
- Support clients in sustaining community tenure by ensuring strong linkage to community based treatment programs and resources.
- Accompany clients to appointments with community based treatment providers and other services as needed.
- Comply with all required in-service training and staff development.
- Supervise in meal preparation, laundry and light housekeeping tasks and provide assistance.
- Provide support, as needed, to the peers on the team
- Other duties assigned as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree, preferable in psychology, social work, sociology.
- New York State Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree
- Case management work experience in a social service agency, preferable serving a mental health population
- Knowledge of mental illness and the needs of individual living with severe and persistent mental illness.
- Knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to consumers/residents, families, and staff.
- Knowledge of techniques for identifying and preventing potentially violent behavior, including crisis management techniques.
- Ability to develop, evaluate, implement and modify a clinical treatment intervention to meet the needs of individual clients.
- Strong oral and written communication abilities.
- Must be able to share staff rotation for emergency on-call and office coverage.
- Regularly required to talk, hear, walk, stand & sit.
- Able to lift up to 10 pounds.
- Able to climb stairs, bend, stretch and bend to retrieve files.
- Able to travel to multiple locations as needed.
BENEFITS:
- We offer competitive salary and excellent benefits including:
- Generous time off (Vacation/ Personal Days/ Sick Days/ Paid Holidays annually)
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement Savings with Agency Match
- Transit
- Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Public Loan Forgiveness Qualified Employer
- Training Series and other additional voluntary benefits.
- Pay Type Hourly
- Min Hiring Rate $27.47
- Max Hiring Rate $30.77
- Travel Required Yes
- Required Education Bachelor's Degree
