Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Licensed Mental Health Counselors

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can help people create change in their lives? The Secure Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers (STARC) are recruiting Licensed Mental Health counselors, to join their team focused on providing compassionate care and support to individuals in a secure environment. STARC has full-time positions at both of their locations - Marcy and Ogdensburg, NY; work schedule is Monday – Friday, 8-hour shifts between 6:00 am – 6:00 pm.

STARC, an Office of Mental Health (OMH) secure facility, provides intensive, sex-offense specific treatment to individuals civilly confined under New York State’s Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act (SOMTA). Mental Health Counselors are part of a multidisciplinary team that provides risk-relevant treatment, targeted skill development, and a range of therapeutic interventions that help high-risk individuals reduce their risk to reoffend, including:

• Reviewing, analyzing, and integrating sex offense–specific assessment information to help develop individualized treatment plans
• Providing sex offense–specific treatment primarily through group therapy, with individual sessions as needed
• Working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary treatment team through meetings and case discussions
• Participating in clinical supervision, staff development, and ongoing training
• Documenting services provided and tracking resident progress in accordance with program requirements

If you would like to join the STARC Team and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer a generous benefits package including:

• Competitive Salaries $70,579-$89,645
• Excellent opportunities for advancement and professional growth.
• Generous paid time off, including thirteen (13) vacation days, eight (8) sick days, and five (5) personal days accrued during the first year of employment; thirteen (13) paid holidays each year.
• NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Access to tuition assistance programs
• NYS Retirement Programs – Pension & Deferred Compensation

Minimum Qualifications:

Licensed Mental Health Counselor:

• License and current registration by New York State as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor,

Additional Comments:

The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@oer.ny.gov.

NOTE:

In order 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 lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.

Background checks are required.