JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Addiction Specialist-Aids Center Peter Krueger Clinic-Mount Sinai Beth Israel-Full Time-Days

Job Summary:

The CASAC will be responsible, along with Social Worker, for delivering all contract services, including AOD services; facilitating group/individual/family counseling; intake/assessments/service plans; EBIs. Facilitates groups and assists with coordination with program participant's primary care provider.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary clinic and team to deliver harm reduction services to a diverse population.

• Provide individual, group and family harm reduction counseling services using motivational interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral therapy.

• Co-facilitate Methadone Maintenance and Meditation Group, as well as other groups to be determines.

• Co-facilitate focus groups to determine program services.

• Assist Project Director and Social Worker with client in-reach and assist patient Navigator and harm reduction peers with targeted case finding and client outreach.

• . Evidenced based group intervention, or interventions mandatory by funding source

• Conduct initial intakes and assessments/reassessments and service plans with program participants.

• Participate in the creation of an ongoing outreach plan and help to determine case finding strategies.

• Coordinate with primary care providers to ensure clients are engaged in HIV care. Provide client assistance services to ensure Program participants are linked to other support services, including housing, insurance, transportation and other social services.

• Assist Patient Navigator with client re-engagement activities.

• Assist clients who need additional harm reduction services such a s biomedical counseling for PrEP; prescribing and monitoring buprenorphine; acupuncture and overdose prevention education and training (naloxone).

• Intake, Follow-up, and Discharge assessments.

• Individual counseling

• Facilitate group sessions

• Develop individual treatment plans

• Appropriate record keeping through EPIC and SPARS system

• Provide referrals to detox and in-patient treatment facilities

• Communicate with Parole, Probation and other collateral contacts

• Collaborate with IAM clinic staff and interdisciplinary teams

• Participate in interdisciplinary rounds, case conferences, staff meetings.

• Work closely with outreach coordinator to engage with Community-based organizations

• Follow guidelines and programmatic guidelines

• Participate in trainings as needed

QUALIFICATIONS

Education Requirements:

• BA/BS required with 2 years minimum of related experience

• CASAC-T/CASAC required

• Strong written and verbal skills

• Good organization and interpersonal skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word,

• Bilingual (Spanish) (preferred)

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of two years previous paid counseling experience is required;

• or BA with a minimum of two years previous paid counseling experience is required;

• or Master's Degree with a minimum of two semesters school internships in substance abuse treatment programs or mental health fields

Non-Bargaining Unit, AMO - Aids Center Peter Krueger Clinic - BI, Mount Sinai Beth Israel

REQUIRED SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3017249