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Harm Reduction Specialist needed for an IMT Team.
Full time position!
Salary: $60,728 plus benefits! OverviewThe IMT Teams serve individuals who are street homeless or living between institutional settings and housing. Team members work collaboratively with settings in which the participant is living and use assertive engagement strategies to proactively engage individuals in services. IMT team members share responsibility for the people they serve, helping individuals attain housing and other personal and safety goals that may be of a health, social, work or education nature. The IMT Harm Reduction Specialist is an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team of mental health clinicians. The Specialist is a team member responsible for engaging participants through harm reduction strategies including motivational interviewing and stage-wise interventions that target an individual’s readiness for change. The Harm Reduction Specialist is a resource to other team members in issues related to mental health and co-occurring substance use.Core Principles The job responsibilities of all staff extend to understanding and incorporating certain principles into their work and into their relationships with program participants. These principles are:- Program participants' right to self-determination;- Respectful communication;- Services that support recovery and healing consistent with and nurturing each participant's cultural background, experience, identity, and values.- Clear professional boundaries to support the limits and possibilities of services.Essential Job Functions Behavioral Health Specialist-related:
Comprehensive IMT services-related:
Job Qualifications• Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants’ rights, and self-determination in service provision.• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, Criminal Justice or other Health and Human Services related field; LMSW preferred• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with individuals with a mental health condition with co-occurring substance use disorder.• Available to work a flexible schedule, mornings, evenings and weekends in response to participant needs.• Must be able to work in the community, including use of public transportation across the boroughs.• Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as comfort with learning new electronic systems.• Bilingual Spanish-speaking, preferred.• Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center.For more information and to apply, please contact : Howard NewmanAccount Manager, Bond Health Staffing5824 12th AvenueBrooklyn, NY, 11219Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204Fax: 1-718-302-0070Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com
Full Time
$75k-92k (estimate)
01/18/2024
06/04/2024