Intensive Case Manager (NY HELPS), New York City Children's Center, Bronx Campus, P25785

Duties Description

As an Intensive Case Manager, you would provide care and services in the community to targeted clients with severe and persistent mental illness. You would link, coordinate, and purchase psychiatric as well as other services and supports, some of which are non-traditional, to a small caseload of culturally diverse clients. This support is required on a 24-hour, on-call basis. You would work primarily in the community in which the client resides, not in an office environment.

YES program Coordinator for Inpatient Services and TRUST Trainer

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates must be reachable on the current Civil Service eligible list for the title.

OR

Transfer Opportunity - Candidates must have one year of permanent service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

OR

Provisional Opportunity – There is no eligible list for this title. Candidates who meet the following open-competitive qualifications may be qualified for a provisional appointment:

A bachelor’s degree in: social work, psychology, nursing, rehabilitation, education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, recreation or recreation therapy, counseling, community mental health, child and family studies, sociology, or speech and hearing.

OR

a NYS teacher’s certificate for which a bachelor’s degree is required.

AND

four years of experience* of either:

• Providing direct service to persons at least 50% of whom have been diagnosed with mental disabilities;
  
  

OR

• Linking persons, at least 50% of whom have been diagnosed with mental disabilities, to a broad range of services essential to successfully living in a community setting.
• One year of this experience must have been working with individuals, at least 50% of whom have a primary diagnosis of mental illness. For purposes of this examination:
• The term "mental disabilities" refers to the following diagnoses: mental illness (or children and youth with serious emotional disturbances), mental retardation, alcoholism, chemical dependency, or substance abuse.
• Linking of individuals with mental disabilities to a broad range of services must include acting on behalf of those individuals or their families to access and obtain services or benefits to which they are entitled. This process requires the ability to make assessments of the needs of individuals being served, detailed knowledge of available services, programs, benefits and entitlements, the ability to negotiate and advocate on the individual's behalf, and respect for the individual's or family's choices.
• The range of services includes mental health, medical, social, vocational, educational, recreational, housing, transportation, spiritual, rehabilitation, legal, and financial services.
  
  

Substitution: A master's degree in one of the fields listed above may be substituted for two years of the required general experience.

If you are appointed provisionally, you must take the next scheduled Civil Service examination for this title and your score must be reachable on the resulting eligible list before you can be permanently appointed. If you do not pass the examination or achieve a reachable score, you may not be retained.

Additional Comments

All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including:

• NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Access to tuition assistance programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
• Paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave
• NYS Retirement programs
  
  

Background checks will be required.

Additional Comments:

This position is eligible for a Downstate Adjustment of $3,400.

Notes:

You must be eligible and maintain eligibility for full and unconditional participation in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. If you receive an appointment, your continued employment will depend on maintaining eligibility. Failure to do so may result in the termination of your appointment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.