Location: Queens, Nassau & Suffolk

Position Status: Full Time

NHCC's HCBS/CORE program is looking for ambitious, dynamic, and creative members to join the team and contribute to development of the program, designed to empower individuals with serious mental illness, gain motivation, skills and personal improvement to fully integrate into their community.

JOB SUMMARY:

The CORE Provider functions as a member of an integrated team to assist individuals with serious mental illness eliminate functional deficits and interpersonal/environmental barriers to restore their functioning and integration in their family, community, or culture. Providers deliver face to face person-centered, recovery-oriented, solution focused interventions in individual or group settings.

Essential functions include:

• Support and restore social and interpersonal skills needed to sustain independent community living with a focus on employment or educational goals

• Enhance social skills such as engagement, conversation and listening skills and build on support networks

• Increase community awareness through identification and pursuit of interests, resources, and natural supports

• Provide individual psychoeducation and skill building to assist in developing personal autonomy, such as learning to manage stress, symptoms, relapse triggers, free time and pursue leisure interests

• As applicable, teach pre-vocational concepts such as work compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving, and safety; coordinate activities that would support job attainment and retention; provide learning and work experiences that strengthen soft skills

• Support comfortable interactions with health care professionals and establish positive health routines and practices

• Assist in the improvement of health wellness and personal self-care activities, inclusive of meal planning, healthy shopping, meal preparation, grooming, managing finances and other functions of living independently

• Actively participate in team meetings and other tasks as assigned

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, human services, or related field OR

• High School Diploma/Equivalency AND minimum of two years experience providing services to individuals with a serious mental illness or substance use disorder

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability and willingness to travel

  PREFERRED:

• Experience providing employment support, education support or vocational assistance a plus

• Experience using Motivational Interviewing and trauma informed practices

• Experience navigating an Electronic Health Record

• Bilingual in foreign languages preferred

New Horizon Counseling Center empowers individuals, strengthens communities and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.