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New Brunswick, NJ | United States

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Position Summary:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Mental Health Specialist III for the Child & Adolescent Services – Partial Hospitalization within Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.

The primary purpose of the Partial Hospital Mental Health Specialist III position is to provide daily direct care services to the program's consumers as directed by the unit supervisor. Demonstrates competence in recognizing the unique needs and behaviors of children with emotional and/or developmental needs. Provides appropriate assistance and renders service in accordance with UBHC policies and procedure in a culturally competent and Person Centered manner.  Actively participates in crisis interventions.

Among the key duties of this position are the following: 

• Engages consumer/patient in appropriate intervention based on service plan and supervisory directions.
• Interacts and communicates with individuals served in a wellness and recovery focused manner. 
• Assures that clients' expressed needs and strengths drive service delivery. 
• Completes all required documentation within prescribed time frames as monitored by tracking reports. 
• Demonstrates initiative and flexibility with respect to job assignments.
• Assists in facilitating concrete needs for students and parents and facilitates referral on an ongoing basis as indicated by record review and supervisory observations. 
• Documents interventions, and interactions with parents and students in accordance with unit policies.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Associate's Degree and two (2) years experience in the provision of appropriate services to youth or a related field or Bachelor's Degree in a relevant social or mental health field; or a high school diploma and five (5) years experience in the provision of appropriate services to youth.

City: Piscataway

State: NJ

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS : Must be able to lift up to seventy (70) pounds multiple times a day. Requires bending, lifting, sitting. Time spent in a school environment. Some travel to client homes and community agencies.

WORK ENVIRONMENT : Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic). Program and classroom setting is active and sometimes noisy. Varied settings in home. Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic). Subject to unpredictable situations, patient crisis, both medical and psychiatric. Occasionally exposed to consumers exhibiting assaultive behaviors. Exposure to bloodborne pathogens that require use of personal protective equipment. May be exposed to varying or extreme temperatures.

Posting Number: 24ST0382

About Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.

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