School Based Bilingual Mental Health Clinician

Job Details

Job Location:

FSW Ossining - Ossining, NY 10562

Salary Range: $64,260.00 - $74,000.00 Salary

Open Door Care Network provides health care and wellness programs to individuals and families in need throughout Westchester, Putnam and Ulster Counties. A pioneer Federally Qualified Health Center, Open Door provides more than 300,000 patient visits annually and serves nearly 60,000 individual patients who might not otherwise have access. Open Door offers integrated services and a holistic approach to building healthier communities.

Primary medical care, dental care, integrated behavioral health care, clinical nutrition, wellness programs, and chronic disease management are the foundation of its clinical programs.

Founded as a free clinic in 1972, Open Door’s mission of building healthier communities through accessible, equitable, culturally competent health care has led to site and service expansions. Today, Open Door operates centers in Brewster, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Ossining, Port Chester, and Sleepy Hollow, in addition to eight School-Based Health Centers in the Port Chester and Ossining School Districts, a mobile dental van in Mount Kisco, and a new dental practice in Saugerties, NY.

For more information, please visit our website ndoormedical.org.

Open Door is seeking a Bilingual School Based Mental Health Clinician to work in our Ossining, NY Schools. The Bilingual School Based Mental Health Clinician responsibility is to provide direct clinical mental health services to patients of all ages, with the goal of providing high quality, culturally competent, accessible, and integrated healthcare. They will also provide individual, couple, family treatment for children, adolescents, adults, and families.

• Provide individual, family, and group counseling based on clinical diagnosis and assessment of the clients’ presenting problems within an outpatient mental health setting.
• Accurately document all clinical interventions, diagnoses, symptoms, and presenting problems in the Electronic Medical Record.
• Provide high-quality evidence-based treatment using a variety of modalities including trauma systems therapy and substance use disorder interventions.
• Participate in weekly supervision, multi-disciplinary team meetings, service training programs.
• Provide crisis counseling, linkages to concrete and wraparound service, and coordinate with other providers to better serve the needs of students and families.
• Require independent knowledge and judgment related to complex situations.
• Document clinical symptoms, presenting problem, symptoms impact on functioning and interventions that are consistent with diagnosis.
• Work with patient to develop treatment plan goals and objectives for treatment of mental health, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.
• Provides ongoing communication with other care providers including PCP regarding patients care needs.
• Incorporate health and wellness education and referrals for preventative care.
• Respond to and incorporates physical health concerns into ongoing care interventions.
• Provide crisis intervention and warm hand off assessments as needed.
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times as per Open Door policies and procedures.
• Prepare and maintain documentation in compliance with JCAHO standards and applicable city, state, and federal laws.
• Demonstrate ability to function in a culturally sensitive manner within the organization’s philosophy and mission.
• Foster good communication between the center and the community by returning all patient telephone requests.
• Ensure timely communication: responding timely to emails, teams, calls, and electronic health record communication.

• EDUCATION:
  
  Master’s Degree from an accredited…