Rutgers University Hiring For Habilitation Counselor at Newark, NJ, United States , United States Full Time

Job Description

Position Details

Recruitment/Posting Title
Habilitation Counselor

Job Category
Staff & Executive – Healthcare – Other

Department
UBHC-Acute Treatment-NWK

Overview

New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Rutgers RBHS is an anchor institution that boasts locations in Newark, New Jersey, a city of promise.

Posting Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Habilitation Counselor for Essex Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services at Rutgers, University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC).

The Habilitation Counselor provides clinical assessments for the Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Program in Essex County that meets quality and quantity standards within UBHC and the Department of Children and Families/Division of Children’s System of Care (DCSOC). Performs functions in support of UBHC’s mission, providing streamlined, prompt, and consumer friendly crisis response services. Receives telephone requests for service, undertakes crisis/strength-based assessment of the service need of the client or customer, responds by outreach to the family, assesses the youth and family strengths and current crisis situation, makes appropriate referrals for time-limited stabilization services, monitors effectiveness of services and makes linkages for aftercare.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• As part of the children’s mobile response and stabilization team, actively participates in ensuring that telephone calls/mobile response requests are handled in an effective and consumer friendly manner.
• Assesses telephone service requests/referrals and provides mobile response in accordance with prescribed Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization procedures.
• Provides face-to-face interventions in the community including, but not limited to, families’ homes, schools, group homes, foster homes, shelters, and the detention center.
• Organizes transition and discharge forms, crisis services, connecting to ongoing services and family support groups.
• Acquires familiarity with agencies in Essex County that provides services to children, adolescents and their families that can provide crisis stabilization services and ongoing support/resources for the family.
• Completes appropriate documentation and utilization review.

Position Status
Full Time

Hours Per Week

Daily Work Shift
Day

FLSA
Exempt

Grade
19S

Position Salary

Annual Minimum Salary
48116.000

Annual Mid Range Salary
57384.000

Annual Maximum Salary
67875.000

Standard Hours
37.50

Union Description
HPAE, Local 5094

Payroll Designation
PeopleSoft

Benefits
Information about the benefits provided to Rutgers employees can be found at: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview

Seniority Unit

Terms of Appointment
Staff – 12 month

Position Pension Eligibility
ABP

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a behavioral health discipline or related human services field.
• A minimum of one (1) year experience in the mental health field.

Certifications/Licenses

• Applicants possessing a degree in Social Work must have an active New Jersey certification/licensure as required by the State Board of Social Work.
• Maintains DCSOC Crisis Assessment Tool (CAT) certification and re-certification annually.
• Maintains DCSOC Crisis Intervention Specialist (CIS) certification and recertification annually. Valid driver’s license.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrates competency in recognizing the unique needs of children and adolescent and their families, and applying relevant crisis stabilization approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

Equipment Utilized

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Must have the ability to drive and to respond to a family crisis in Essex County within one (1) hour when on-call.
• May have to work long hours and travel within the State.
• Lift up to 10 pounds.

Special Conditions

• Must be available to work on-call.

Posting Number
21ST1544

Posting Open Date

Special Instructions to Applicants

Regional Campus
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)

Home Location Campus
Newark (RBHS)

Location Details

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

• * Do you have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a behavioral health discipline or related human services field?
  • Yes
  • No

• * If you possess a degree in Social Work, do you have an active New Jersey certification/licensure as required by the State Board of Social Work?
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not Applicable

• * Do you have a minimum of one (1) year experience in the mental health field?
  • Yes
  • No

• * Do you have a valid driver’s license?
  • Yes
  • No

Applicant Documents

Required Documents

• Resume/CV

Optional Documents

• Cover Letter/Letter of Application

• Certifications/Licenses