| Overview | Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC), established in 1971, offers a full continuum of evidence based behavioral health and addiction services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors throughout New Jersey. UBHC’s 1,060 experienced behavioral health professionals and support staff are dedicated to treatment, prevention, and education. UBHC, one of the largest providers of behavioral health care in the country, has a budget of $260 million and has 15 sites throughout New Jersey. Services are readily accessible and include: inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, screening, crisis stabilization, family/caregiver support, community outreach and case management, supportive housing, supported employment, prevention and consultation, employee assistance programs, and a licensed therapeutic school from preschool through high school. Specialty services include the New Jersey suicide prevention helpline and peer help lines for police, veterans, active military, teachers, mothers of special needs children and child protective service workers. In FY2016, UBHC treated 16,199 consumers, had 24,502 admissions, and touched the lives of 19,441 individual callers through peer support. In addition, UBHC is the primary mental health training resource for the New Jersey departments of Human Services, Children and Families, and Corrections, delivering 16,000 trainings each year. |
| Posting Summary | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Mental Health Clinician III for the Early Intervention Support Services Department within Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.
The primary purpose of the Mental Health Clinician IIII is to provide comprehensive evaluation, assessment and therapeutic intervention to address the psychological, emotional and social needs of individuals served by the unit. Duties include formulating evaluations, developing and implementing treatment plans, conducting individual, group, and family therapy and providing case management functions.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
- Actively participates in and contributes to smooth functioning of the department and demonstrates initiative and flexibility regarding work assignments.
- Effectively contributes to and supports an environment that enhances the positive self-image of individuals served and preserves their human dignity.
- Maintains effective, open communication with members of the treatment team.
- Consistently ensures the individuals served’ rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy and civil rights are maintained.
- Consistently provides individual, group and family therapy based on sound clinical judgment.
- Consistently provides therapy with empathy and concern.
- Adapts the assessment and treatment processes to accommodate variations in readiness for treatment/change, and implications of age, cultural, medical, economic or other relevant factors.
- Consistently identifies appropriate resources for individuals served and families based on assessed needs, performs case management functions and completes all forms, correspondence and reports necessary to ensure overall coordination of treatment services via linkages, service procurement, referrals, patient advocacy and state/community systems as indicated by supervisory observation and/or periodic record reviews.
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