At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.
Reasons you'll love working with us:
• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.
How you can make a bigger difference:
Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment (CPST) services are designed to provide goal-directed functional supports to children/youth and their families to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery, as well as family and interpersonal relationships that promote school and community integration. CPST services are conducted primarily in the community for children/youth who may have difficulty engaging in formal office settings but can benefit from home and/or community based rehabilitative services. The family/caregiver plays an integral role in the support and treatment of the child's behavioral health needs.
To provide community psychiatric support and treatment (CPST). Assisting the child/youth and their family or other adult caregivers to identify strategies or treatment options to minimize the negative effects of symptoms, emotional disturbances, substance use, or environmental stressors that adversely impact the child's/youth's functioning in one or more domains (i.e., home, school, community). Examples include but are not limited to emotional self-regulation, identifying and making healthy/safe choices, and developing age appropriate coping mechanisms.
Assisting the child/youth and their family or other collaterals with identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports and developing goals and objectives to capitalize on these strengths, improve interpersonal relationships, and build self-esteem.
Providing restoration, rehabilitation, and support to minimize the negative effects of behavioral health symptoms or emotional disturbances that interfere with the child/youth's daily living. Examples include (but are not limited to): improving life safety skills such as ability to access emergency services, basic safety practices and evacuation; physical and behavioral health care (maintenance, scheduling physician appointments, recognizing when to contact a physician); self-administration of medication for physical and mental health or substance use disorder conditions, understanding the purpose and possible side effects of medication prescribed for conditions, and other common prescription and non-prescription drugs and drug uses.
Perform these services in the youth's home (may include a children's community residence licensed by OMH), community, office or via telehealth.
Participate in clinical treatment team meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
Maintain all documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies and/or funding sources
Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures.
The ability to travel and navigate the community in order to provide services where the youth and family will benefit most from the services delivered
Work collaboratively as a member of an interdisciplinary therapeutic team.
Additional duties as assigned
Qualifications:
The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:
Bachelor's degree with a minimum of two years of applicable experience in children's mental health, addiction, and/or foster care/child welfare/juvenile justice.
Prior experience with electronic health records and Microsoft Office
Bilingual Spanish/English Preferred
If you join us, you'll have these great benefits:
Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
Free continuing education opportunities
403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
Life and disability insurance
Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee
Who we are:
The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.
More on Equal Opportunity:
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.
Other details
Job Family Clinical Staff [300s]
Job Function Medical Professionals
Pay Type Hourly
Employment Indicator 8833 - Hospital - Professional Employees
