Essential functions (duties and responsibilities)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Serve as clinical lead of the Manhattan Supervised Release Program Rapid Response Treatment team working with a peer specialist
• Rapidly assess and provide clinical interventions to individuals with immediate psychiatric needs from within the Manhattan Court buildings
• Provide crisis intervention services to individuals with active, immediate needs to enable improved bridging to ongoing continuing supportive treatment services
• Conduct psychiatric assessments to determine appropriateness for a specific level of behavioral health care
• Serve as the program’s on-site clinical expert by providing assessment recommendations to collateral and court stakeholders to ensure a seamless re-connection back to the program in cases of a judge ordered hospitalization hold for assessment (i.e. MHHL 9.43 or similar)
• Prescribe medications indicated by assessment to assist with improving psychiatric stability, teach clients about side effects, and monitor response to prescribed medications
• Promote and deliver integrated treatment including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) to consumers with co-occurring substance use disorders which includes completing buprenorphine training and obtain the waiver to prescribe

Other duties

• Assist clients, family members, and significant others with concern and empathy
• Work in collaboration with clients, family, and other collaterals to support bridging to treatment supports and ongoing continuity of care
• Work collaboratively with a court-based Peer Specialist and other members of the court team to improve participant stability while in the court and ensure best outcomes for ongoing program enrollment in Supervised Release
• Ensure services are person/family-centered, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed
• Promote the importance of primary care with all designated participants to ensure a holistic approach to participant health
• Utilize best and evidence-based approaches to treatment consistent with CASES’ organizational culture; health/mental health integration, rehabilitation and recovery, and understanding incarceration on treatment engagement
• Provide culturally competent services that are individualized to client needs and reflect the integration of race, ethnicity, culture, primary language, immigration status, developmental status, criminal justice status, sexuality, age, and gender
• Other duties as assigned via program, senior, or executive leadership

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

Competencies

• Extensive experience working with people with mental illness, serious mental illness and knowledgeable about risk assessment and risk management

• Experience with working with individuals involved in the criminal legal system

Required education and experience

• A Nurse Practitioner degree with specialized training or experience in Psychiatry. A current license to practice as a nurse practitioner in the State of New York. Must be board certified
• Currently possess a Data2000 waiver or complete training within 6 months of hire and become eligible to provide MAT services.
• A current DEA registration for the prescribing of controlled substances. ANCC certification or pending application is required. NYS OPRA status approved or application pending and a Health Commerce Account in place by the onset of employment.
• BLS/ALS Certified or gain within 3 months of hire

Preferred education and experience

• None

Additional eligibility requirements

• To be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion l