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Interventionist - Home Based Crisis Intervention

University Settlement partners with 40,000 New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn every year to build on their strengths as they achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For 135 years, we’ve collaborated with our communities to pioneer highly effective programs that fight poverty and systemic inequality. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening to their perspectives, recognizing their excellence, understanding them as complete individuals, and creating space for them to organize. Joining together with our neighbors to advocate for justice and equality, we help build community strength. 

The Home Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI) model is an innovative service/treatment program primarily intended to stabilize clients at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization and assist them in gaining access to needed mental health, medical, educational, social, recreational and other services essential to meeting basic human needs. The target populations are children and adolescents (ages 5- 20 years old) with serious emotional disturbances at risk of hospitalization or residential placement requiring intensive intervention. The Interventionist is responsible for providing treatment to the child and their family/caregivers (assigned 2-3 families at a time for a 6-week period) to address the clinical needs of the child and the complex needs of the family unit. A collaborative team approach and extensive supervisory involvement are hallmarks of the program. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide clinical services to 2-3 families at a time, conduct up to daily meetings with each child/youth and family 

• Provide crisis intervention, prevention and resolution 

• Conduct intensive outreach to client and family 

• Screen and assess clients for social determinants of health, mental health, trauma, risk, and substance use 

• Assess client and develop service plan 

• Develop and facilitate service delivery 

• Must become fully knowledgeable of the mental health resources in Manhattan 

• Coordinate treatment plans with collateral service providers 

• Maintain complete case management records 

• Provide on-call rotation duties and coverage as needed  

• Other related duties within the scope of the position as assigned by the Supervisor  

Qualifications: 

• MSW, or Masters in psychology or human services and licensed mental health provider or unlicensed Masters or Bachelor’s with at least one year of relevant experience in community based mental health or case management 

• Demonstrated ability to engage hard-to-reach populations as well as families and youth impacted by trauma, poverty, complex stressors, violence, mental health, etc.  

• Excellent oral and written communication skills  

• Experience working with children and adolescents 

• Comfortable traveling to and working in families’ homes and communities 

• Ability to be proactive and creative team player  

• Bilingual skills in English/Spanish, English/Cantonese or English/Mandarin is a plus. Language requirements will change based on program’s needs 

Work schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm, 35 hours per week

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. We support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to our organization. We are an equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.  

Salary : $61,000