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Long Island, NY - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

ONLY PERMANENT EMPLOYEES IN THE TITLE AND THOSE THAT ARE REACHABLE ON THE SPECIAL CONSULTANT (MHSS) CIVIL SERVICE LIST/ EXAM NO.1177 ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
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 recently completed 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 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.


The Bureau of Mental Health procures and monitors approximately 500 contracted programs that provide supportive housing crisis intervention mental health treatment care coordination and psychiatric rehabilitation services. Additionally the Bureau directly operates the Citys courtmandated Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) program and the NYC Supportive Transition and Recovery Team (NYCSTART) for young adults experiencing a first episode psychosis. Lastly the Bureau evaluates its contracted and directly operated programs to understand their impact and promote quality improvement conducts population level surveys and behavioral health care system surveillance to identify gaps care and inform decision making advocacy and policy.

Duties will include but not be limited to:
Negotiate scopes of service and budgets for behavioral health treatment and care coordination services with other public and voluntary agencies.
Maintains liaison with personnel from State Regulatory bodies and from community groups.
Undertakes and or participates in special projects to improve service delivery operations.
Monitor adherence to scopes of service budgets relevant regulations and policies through frequent site visits data collection and analysis.
Provide consultation and technical assistance to contracted behavioral health treatment and care coordination providers to promote quality of care adherence to contractual regulatory and policy requirements. Technical assistance will also focus on care for persons at high risk of violence including potential disconnections from care.
Conduct and facilitate provider meetings.
Liaise with DOHMHs Single Point of Access to monitor and promote access to and continuity of care with special attention to those with highrisk histories.
Address questions concerns and complaints from programs and consumers. Review and discuss programmatic audits and fiscal issues as necessary.
Refer provide and/or coordinate meetings and trainings to address program needs.
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of assigned contracted programs/program types and best practices. Based on this understanding identify and recommend opportunities for programmatic improvements and contract renewals.
Represent DOHMH professionally at meetings conferences and workgroups.
Develop and implement surveys questionnaires or other surveillance methods identify potential data sources and analyze new and existing data sets to inform program planning and evaluation activities.
Conduct proposal review and evaluation of PARs and RFPs.
Assist with the preparation of reports on agency functioning and service delivery as requested.
Participate in data gathering for Quarterly Program Review and other management reports.


Qualifications :

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and either:

1. A Masters degree in Social Work from an accredited college or university in the school of social work or 60 graduate semester credits from an accredited university in social work psychology health rehabilitation public health psychiatric nursing or special education; plus one year of fulltime satisfactory experience providing direct care in a social psychiatric health mental ation/developmental disabilities or substance abuse/chemical dependency/alcoholism agency or in the administration of a program providing direct care as described above or as a consultant on program planning or evaluation for such services; or

2. A Masters degree of at least 30 graduate semester credits from an accredited university in psychology sociology anthropology public health special education psychiatric nursing counseling human services health rehabilitation public administration or business administration; plus two years of experience as described in 1 above; or

3. A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience. Candidates without either a Masters degree as described in 1 or 2 above or at least 60 graduate semester credits in the areas listed in 1 above must have at least:

a) a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and one year of actual experience as described in 1 above; plus

b) a satisfactory combination of: (i) graduate semester credits in the areas listed in 1 and 2 above; and/or (ii) additional experience as described in 1 above to equal 60 graduate semester credits or 2 years of experience. Graduate semester credits from an accredited university may be substituted for the experience in qualification 3 b) only on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits for each year of experience. Experience may be substituted for graduate semester credits in qualification 3 b) only on the basis of one year of experience for each 30 graduate semester credits.

NOTE: For assignment to Assignment Level II in addition to meeting the above qualification requirements all candidates must have one additional year of experience as described in 1 above.


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.


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