Health Clinician; -N

Clinician

Are you looking to join a dynamic team focused on providing high quality health care to communities across Brooklyn & Queens? If so, you’ve come to the right place. For over 125 years, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, and currently offers over 160 programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and those struggling with mental illness.

Catholic Charities provides comprehensive care coordination and case management services to individuals living with serious mental illness, complex medical needs, and substance use needs. Our Kingsborough Transition Team (Pathway Home) works with clients transitioning to the community from a higher level of care. This multi‑disciplinary team addresses the preparatory needs of clients in the early stages of recovery, discharge planning, development of daily living skills, and coping mechanisms through team and individual work in the community.

The team will follow individuals into the community using the Pathway Home model of care to ensure that they become both linked and engaged with identified community providers. The team delivers comprehensive, community‑based services for adults living with serious mental illness, and ensures clients have access to uninterrupted and coordinated behavioral and physical health services while addressing the social determinants of health that impact daily living.

The Clinician will address a host of issues that impact clients directly such as housing, access to nutritious food, economic security/benefits, medication adherence, linkage with outpatient treatment providers or other community resources and social supports. This position is part of an embedded team at Kingsborough State Psychiatric Center.

• Overall day‑to‑day responsibility and accountability for coordinating all aspects of care for clients with complex medical and/or psychiatric comorbid conditions and for facilitating their access to the full range of medical, behavioral health, substance use, social and psychosocial services in the community, in an efficient and effective manner.
• Part of the team reviewing referral packages and conducting comprehensive psychosocial assessments/assisting with intakes as needed to determine client appropriateness for enrollment, and medical, psychiatric, housing and other social needs in the community.
• Providing intensive emotional and practical support to clients as they transition back into their communities and into a supportive housing living environment, including short‑term counseling (coping skills, trauma informed, decision making) and risk assessment/safety planning.
• Counseling clients in individual and group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental and physical illness, family issues, housing problems and unemployment and other social determinants of health.
• Providing ongoing family conferences and psychoeducation to families and others within the support network while also fostering relationships with community providers to ensure clients are connected with appropriate services as they transition back into the community and to share or collect collateral information.
• Engaging clients while inpatient and post‑discharge, conducting home and community visits to clients, emphasizing prevention and preparing for independent community living and the promotion of optimum mental and emotional health.
• Assessing client need on a regular basis and developing a comprehensive, individualized person‑centered care plan that is recovery‑oriented and integrates the continuum of medical, behavioral health, rehabilitative, and social service needs.
• Providing high quality care coordination services that assist individuals in their recovery journey, keep clients well in their home and community and increase positive health outcomes.
• Providing crisis intervention as needed.
• Utilizing technology and various web‑based platforms for documenting progress notes and daily work activities; proficiency with iPhone, tablet, Surface Pro and navigation of various technology platforms and reporting systems is…