Outpatient Mental Health Consultant

About the Role 

The Article 31 clinic is an OMH regulated outpatient mental health clinic that supports children, adolescents and adults. The Outpatient Mental Health Therapist is responsible for providing comprehensive clinical services to persons supported through the Article 31 Clinic. The individual is required to work in-person from our Jamaica location during hours of operation, which includes evenings and weekends.

What You’ll Do

• Provide individual, group, couple and family therapy.
• Meets the minimum requirement of completing 10-12 hours of billable sessions per week
• Properly supports persons supported through crisis intervention.
• Administers appropriate evidence based and culturally informed interventions (i.e. CBT, TF-CBT and Motivational Interviewing).
• Completes Intakes and provides internal and external resource linkages and referrals.
• Completes clinical assessments, treatment plans and progress notes in a timely manner.
• Engage in professional development and certification and training opportunities and participate in reflective supervision.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Your Qualifications

• Must have an active Clinical License (LMSW, LMFC, LCAT, LMHC)
• Master’s degree in social work or a related field
• Must be able to work a minimum of 10-12 billable sessions per week
• Experience/expertise in Mental Health diagnostics
• Experience and comfort with Evidence Based Models and multiple assessment measures
• Highly organized, self-motivated worker who can easily manage competing demands
• Creative problem-solver who anticipates challenges and seizes opportunities for collaboration

• Bilingual (Spanish) is a plus.

Supervisory Responsibility

No

Work Environment:

Clinic/Field

Additional Requirements:

• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Ability to work in-person in New York City (NY)
• Ability to travel to other Rising Ground sites (if required)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Please be advised this is a FEE-FOR-SERVICE role. There is no hourly rate. You get paid based on services rendered. For example if you are called in for 3 hours for a day you get a certain amount for those 3 hours.