Job: In-Take Coordinator – Outpatient Mental Health Clinic

In-Take Coordinator – Outpatient Mental Health Clinic: Vida Guidance Center – Bronx, NY

Comunilife is a premier provider of housing, mental health, and HIV/AIDS services in New York City.  Our programs benefit more than 2,500 people each year – helping  them overcome challenges related to extreme poverty; chronic homelessness; serious behavioral and medical issues; and, linguistic and acculturation barriers.

Our staff members work with a supportive team of supervisors and peers, receive in-depth training and ongoing opportunities for professional development, and, are part of an organization that recognizes, celebrates, and promotes personal and cultural strengths.

The Vida Guidance Center, a licensed outpatient Mental Health Clinic, provides bilingual bicultural services to children, adolescents, adults and seniors in the Bronx diagnosed with mental illness, chemical addiction (MICA), and HIV/AIDS.  Services include family, individual and group psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluations, counseling, medication follow-up care, and case management.  Clinic patients are primarily Latino and African-American.

We seek an Intake Coordinator who will:

• Complete brief telephone assessment to determine appropriateness of referral to the clinic; perform initial screening for risk assessments
• Respond to COPS referrals in a timely manner, and schedule intake appointments
• Complete initial referral information and financial information forms and initial insurance verification and authorization
• Keep appropriate documentation of all records, including cases not accepted for treatment
• Carry cases until they are assigned to a therapist
• Assess client needs and make referrals to community resources as needed
• Arrange intake evaluation and psychiatric evaluation appointments and monitors waiting list for follow up
• Track referrals, intake evaluations, and psychiatric evaluations for timely scheduling according to OMH guidelines
• Support clinical staff by making referrals and follow up as needed
• Follow up insurance authorization, as needed

Qualifications:

• MSW, and New York State LMSW required.  Experience of working with SPMI, MICA, and HIV/AIDS afflicted adult population.  Bilingual in Spanish/English.
• Extensive knowledge of principles and practices of mental health outpatient clinics and Office of Mental Health regulations and directives.
• Ability to provide intake coordination, case management and counseling to clients diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness and/or histories of substance abuse and trauma.
• Responsible, organized, and efficient.
• Ability to perform in a team approach and carry out multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Community minded, patient, creative, flexible, compassionate, and culturally sensitive to persons who are diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness.

This is a full-time position.  Some evening and weekend hours are required.

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and an excellent and comprehensive program of benefits for eligible employees that includes:  health, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, flexible spending accounts, pension, 401K and paid time off.

Interested applicants should forward a cover letter and resume with salary requirements to: recruitment@comunilife.org. Please refer to the specific job title for which you are applying when submitting your application. Cover letters and resumes may also be faxed to Human Resources at 212-564-3445.

Comunilife is an equal opportunity employer.