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Position Information

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 ). Under direction of the Supervising Habilitation Counselor/Program Coordinator, 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 University Behavioral Health Care and the Department of Children and Families/Division of Children’s System of Care ( DCSOC ). Performs functions in support of UBHC mission of 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:

• Completes appropriate documentation and utilization review.
• Provides face-to-face interventions in the community including, but not limited to, family’s home, school, group home, foster home, shelter, or detention center.
• Actively participates in ensuring that telephone calls/mobile response requests are handled in an effective and consumer friendly manner.
• Acquires familiarity with agencies in Essex County that provide services to children, adolescents and their families that can provide crisis stabilization services and provide ongoing support/resources for the family.
• Organizes transition and discharge form crisis services, connecting clients to ongoing services and family support groups.
• Assesses telephone service requests/referrals and provides mobile response in accordance with prescribed procedures.

Position Status Full Time

Hours Per Week

Daily Work Shift Day

Work Arrangement

FLSA Exempt

Grade 19S

Position Salary

Annual Minimum Salary 49566.000

Annual Mid Range Salary 59113.000

Annual Maximum Salary 69919.000

Standard Hours 37.50

Union Description HPAE, Local 5094

Payroll Designation PeopleSoft

Benefits

Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.

Rutgers also offers a benefit program to eligible full-time postdoctoral fellow students. For details, please go to https://finance.rutgers.edu/healthcare-risk/insurance/postdoctoral-health-insurance.

Seniority Unit

Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month

Position Pension Eligibility ABP

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience

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

Certifications/Licenses

• Valid driver’s license.
• 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 ) and DCSOC Crisis Intervention Specialist ( CIS ) certification and recertification annually.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

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

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 and travel within the State.
• Per program demand, may have to work long hours.

Special Conditions

• Must be available to work on-call.

Posting Details

Posting Number 22ST0257

Posting Open Date

Special Instructions to Applicants

Regional Campus Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)

Home Location Campus Newark (RBHS)

City Newark

State NJ

Location Details

Pre-employment Screenings

All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of all pre-employment screenings.

Immunization Requirements

Under Policy 60.1.35 Immunization Policy for Rutgers Employees and Prospective Employees (https://policies.rutgers.edu/60-1-35-currentpdf) , Rutgers University requires all prospective employees to provide proof that they are vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to commencement of employment, unless the University has granted the individual a medical or religious exemption. Rutgers University may require certain prospective employees to receive an updated (bivalent) vaccine dose. Under Policy 100.3.1 Immunization Policy for Covered Individuals (https://policies.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/100-3-1-current.pdf) , if employment will commence during Flu Season, Rutgers University may require certain prospective employees to provide proof that they are vaccinated against Seasonal Influenza for the current Flu Season, unless the University has granted the individual a medical or religious exemption. Additional infection control and safety policies may apply. Prospective employees should speak with their hiring manager to determine which policies apply to the role or position for which they are applying. Failure to provide proof of vaccination for any required vaccines or obtain a medical or religious exemption from the University will result in rescission of a candidate’s offer of employment or disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

It is university policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law. As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment on the basis of any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms and conditions of employment. For additional information please see the Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement

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