Citywide Assistance Team Coordinator Bureau of Mental Health

Established in 1805 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential regardless of who they are how old they are where they are from or where they live.

As a worldrenowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge and responding to urgent public health crises from New York Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation expertise and programs and services. We serve as the population health strategist and policy and planning authority for the City of New York while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy including programs and services focused on food and nutrition antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.

Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recentlycompleted strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are:
1) To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated disease including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths strengthening our youth mental health systems and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for womens health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7000plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racisms impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021 the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance antiracist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power opportunity and access the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Office of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is responsible for the management and oversight of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program in New York City. The New York State Legislature passed Kendras law as an amendment to the Mental Hygiene Law to allow for outpatient civil commitment of individuals with histories of serious mental illness difficulty engaging in rehabilitation and who present high risk to themselves or the community. The program enables these individuals to live safely in the community avoid repeated inpatient hospitalizations and ensure they have access to comprehensive outpatient services.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

Review court ordered transport requests to determine that they are in accordance with legal standards.

Coordinate all logistical issues pertaining to the involuntary transport of the individual to a psychiatric hospital in collaboration with the AOT teams Care Coordinator (CC)/Assertive Clinical Treatment (ACT) teams and the NYC Sheriffs Office and/or NYPD.

Conduct investigations regarding missing individuals and communicate with family members physicians allied health staff neighbors and others involved with the individual.

Accompany the individual and sheriff or police to designated receiving psychiatric hospitals.

Facilitate the admission process by sharing pertinent clinical information and safety concerns with appropriate hospital staff.

Provide followup information to AOT CC/ACT teams and allied health staff concerning the disposition of the individual as needed.

Document all investigation and involuntary transport actions.

Maintain a productive working alliance with the NYC Sheriffs Office and NYPD.

Maintain collaborative relationships with AOT clinicians and allied health providers involved with the care of the individual.

Contribute to other timelimited projects where duties may include reviewing written materials project planning and supporting reporting activities as needed.

Qualifications :

Graduation from an accredited graduate school of social work as evidenced by a masters degree or certificate and four years of fulltime paid experience in public health medical or psychiatric social work at least two years of which must have been in a supervisory administrative or consultative capacity.
Within 18 months of the date of appointment all candidates will be required to obtain a certificate as Certified Social Worker (CSW) issued by the New York State Department of Education.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime