Art Therapist / Recovery Specialist job opening

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I recently resigned my position at Brooklyn Community PROS, and the program is looking to hire another Art Therapist beginning in September. This is a great opportunity for new graduates to get experience working with adults with mental illness, substance abuse, and trauma in an outpatient, group-oriented setting. The position involves a large amount of case management but has potential for expansion of the creative arts services. See the job description below, and contact Eugene Shea, Program Director, with inquiries - (eshea@wearebcsorg).

Sebastian, LCAT, ATR-BC

JOB OPENING

Position: Art Therapist/Recovery Specialist

Program: Brooklyn Community PROS

Reports to: Supervisor, BC PROS

Brooklyn Community Services is one of Brooklyn’s largest and first non-sectarian social services agencies. Serving more than 10,000 individuals annually, BCS provides a broad and diverse range of services including prevention of foster care placement; crisis intervention; early childhood and after school education; vocational training, job placement, and clinical services to adults with physical and developmental disabilities, and histories of mental illness.

Brooklyn Community PROS (Personalized Recovery Oriented Services) offers rehabilitation, counseling, therapeutic activities, and peer support each day to individuals living with severe mental illness. The program works to help program participants identify meaningful, personal life goals to help them become as self-sufficient as possible. Brooklyn Community PROS has been at the forefront of integrating evidence based practices and recovery into its service model.

Responsibilities:

The Art Therapist/Recovery Specialist will function as an interdisciplinary team member and provide the follow direct and indirect services to adult mentally ill consumers:

· Manage a caseload of approximately 18-22 consumers

· Conduct art therapy, psycho-education, and treatment for dual disorders

· Maintain documentation of services in client records

· Share responsibility of carrying on-call emergency cell phone on a rotating basis

· Develop and maintain collateral relationships with consumers’ other providers and family as clinically indicated

· Participate in administrative and clinical meetings Participate in "daily" administrative and clinical meetings

· Complete any trainings that OMH requires in order to deliver specific PROS services

· Opportunities to Work with Interns

· Develop Groups and Curriculum

· Supervision available for individual operating under LCAT Limited Permit which would pertain to new graduates trying to acquire hours for state licensure.

Requirements:

Masters Level degree in Art Therapy/Creative Arts required. New graduates welcome. Finger printing and criminal background check required. Positions with Medicaid funded programs require a screening against the GSA, OIG, and OMIG lists of persons disallowed from working in such programs.