JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Case Manager Assertive - Psychiatry Administration RV - MSBI - Full Time - Day

The purpose of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is to deliver comprehensive and effective services to individuals who are diagnosed with severe mental illness and whose needs have not been well met in the traditional outpatient setting. ACT is an evidence-based practice providing psychiatric treatment, case management, and support services delivered by a multi-disciplinary mental health treatment team.

The Family Specialist will work with other ACT treatment team members to engage clients in treatment, identify social supports to be involved in clients’ treatment, and empower clients to meet their treatment goals. The Family Specialist provides family psychoeducation both individually and in group settings. This is a field-based position and requires community outreach visits with clients and social supports in their residences, shelters, etc. to ensure continued engagement treatment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical/Technical/Service

• Provide treatment, including but not limited to individual & family counseling, crisis intervention, case management, and other support services in the community.

• Assume primary case management responsibility for 8-12 adults with serious and persistent mental illness.

• Attend and participate in daily morning meetings with ACT team members to discuss clients’ clinical and case management needs; Assumes responsibility for integrating family goals and services in clinical discussion.

• Provide support and psychoeducation to family members, friends, and other collateral contacts involved in clients’ treatment.

• Completes Family Needs Assessments, Comprehensive Assessments, Treatment Plans, and other documentation as required within a timely manner.

• Complete documentation and reporting as required by the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DOHMH) guidelines.

Organizational/Managerial

• Participates in the department’s performance improvement activities.

• Maintains patient/employee confidentiality in the management of information.

• Observes the Health Care System’s compliance policies.

Educational/Professional Development

• Participates in the development of other staff members and provides education regarding appropriate family interventions.

• Meets regulatory, licensure, and annual health assessment requirements.

• Identifies learning strengths/needs and utilizes resources for continuing education.

Communication/Relationships

• Demonstrates a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with clients, families, and collateral contacts.

• Displays courtesy, tact and patience during interactions with all members of the hospital staff and extended community.

• May be required to perform other duties as assigned or perform other duties when necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION REQUIRED

• Master?s degree in social work, or related discipline preferred. Applicable professional license in field issued by NYS Education Department strongly preferred.

EXPERIENCES AND/OR SKILLS REQUIRED

• Experience in family assessment and intervention, psychoeducation, and/or other family support services

• Experiences working with individuals with serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders.

• Ability to travel via public transit independently, or with reasonable accommodations, to provide community outreach.

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Qualification as New York State Office of Mental Health professional clinical staff (master?s degree and/or licensure in Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Counseling, Pastoral Counseling, Creative Arts Therapy,) preferred.

JOB HAZARDS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Ability to travel via public transit independently, or with reasonable accommodations, to provide community outreach.

Non-Bargaining Unit, B4L - Psychiatry Administration RV - BI, Mount Sinai Beth Israel

REQUIRED SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3016731