Habilitation Counselor
- Full-Time
- Newark, NJ
- Rutgers University
- Posted 2 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
Position DetailsPosition Information Recruitment/Posting Title Habilitation Counselor
Job Category Staff & Executive - Healthcare - Other
Department UBHC-Acute Treatment-NWK
OverviewNew Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.
Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.
Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
Rutgers RBHS is an anchor institution that boasts locations in Newark, New Jersey, a city of promise.
Posting SummaryRutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Habilitation Counselor for Essex Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services at Rutgers, University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC). Under direction of the Supervising Habilitation Counselor/Program Coordinator, the Habilitation Counselor provides clinical assessments for the Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization program in Essex County that meets quality and quantity standards within University Behavioral Health Care and the Department of Children and Families/Division of Children’s System of Care (DCSOC). Performs functions in support of UBHC mission of providing streamlined, prompt, and consumer friendly crisis response services. Receives telephone requests for service, undertakes crisis/strength-based assessment of the service need of the client or customer, responds by outreach to the family, assesses the youth and family strengths and current crisis situation, makes appropriate referrals for time-limited stabilization services, monitors effectiveness of services and makes linkages for aftercare.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
Position Status Full Time
Hours Per Week 37.5
Daily Work Shift Day
FLSA Exempt
Grade 19S
Position Salary
Annual Minimum Salary 49566.000
Annual Mid Range Salary 59113.000
Annual Maximum Salary 69919.000
Standard Hours 37.50
Union Description HPAE, Local 5094
Payroll Designation PeopleSoft
BenefitsRutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Rutgers also offers a benefit program to eligible full-time postdoctoral fellow students. For details, please go to https://finance.rutgers.edu/healthcare-risk/insurance/postdoctoral-health-insurance.
COVID-19 Immunization Requirement
Seniority Unit
Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month
Position Pension Eligibility ABP
Qualifications Minimum Education and Experience
Certifications/Licenses
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Preferred Qualifications
Equipment Utilized
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Special Conditions
Posting Details Posting Number 22ST0257
Posting Open Date
Special Instructions to Applicants
Regional Campus Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)
Home Location Campus Newark (RBHS)
Location Details
Pre-employment ScreeningsAll offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of all pre-employment screenings.Infection Control and SafetyThis position is subject to all Rutgers University policies, including TB surveillance and other infection control and safety policies. Please review the Tuberculosis Surveillance Policy for additional information.
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Job Category Staff & Executive - Healthcare - Other
Department UBHC-Acute Treatment-NWK
OverviewNew Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.
Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.
Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
Rutgers RBHS is an anchor institution that boasts locations in Newark, New Jersey, a city of promise.
Posting SummaryRutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Habilitation Counselor for Essex Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services at Rutgers, University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC). Under direction of the Supervising Habilitation Counselor/Program Coordinator, the Habilitation Counselor provides clinical assessments for the Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization program in Essex County that meets quality and quantity standards within University Behavioral Health Care and the Department of Children and Families/Division of Children’s System of Care (DCSOC). Performs functions in support of UBHC mission of providing streamlined, prompt, and consumer friendly crisis response services. Receives telephone requests for service, undertakes crisis/strength-based assessment of the service need of the client or customer, responds by outreach to the family, assesses the youth and family strengths and current crisis situation, makes appropriate referrals for time-limited stabilization services, monitors effectiveness of services and makes linkages for aftercare.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
- Actively participates in ensuring that telephone calls/mobile response requests are handled in an effective and consumer friendly manner.
- Assesses telephone service requests/referrals and provides mobile response in accordance with prescribed procedures.
- Provides face-to-face interventions in the community including, but not limited to, family’s home, school, group home, foster home, shelter, or detention center.
- Organizes transition and discharge form crisis services, connecting clients to ongoing services and family support groups.
- Acquires familiarity with agencies in Essex County that provide services to children, adolescents and their families that can provide crisis stabilization services and provide ongoing support/resources for the family.
- Completes appropriate documentation and utilization review.
Position Status Full Time
Hours Per Week 37.5
Daily Work Shift Day
FLSA Exempt
Grade 19S
Position Salary
Annual Minimum Salary 49566.000
Annual Mid Range Salary 59113.000
Annual Maximum Salary 69919.000
Standard Hours 37.50
Union Description HPAE, Local 5094
Payroll Designation PeopleSoft
BenefitsRutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Rutgers also offers a benefit program to eligible full-time postdoctoral fellow students. For details, please go to https://finance.rutgers.edu/healthcare-risk/insurance/postdoctoral-health-insurance.
COVID-19 Immunization Requirement
Rutgers University requires all new employees to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated and have received a booster (where eligible) against COVID-19 prior to commencement of employment, unless the University has granted the employee a medical or religious exemption. Employees who are not eligible for a booster at the time of an offer of employment provide proof they have received a booster upon eligibility and upload proof of same. Based on current guidance, individuals are considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the final dose of a vaccine approved or authorized for emergency use in the United States or a vaccine that has been listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization. Eligibility for a booster against COVID-19 varies and is explained on the University’s web site located at https://coronavirus.rutgers.edu/covid-19-vaccine. Failure to provide proof of primary vaccination and booster will result in rescission of a candidate’s offer of employment or disciplinary action up to and including termination.
Seniority Unit
Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month
Position Pension Eligibility ABP
Qualifications Minimum Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in a behavioral health discipline or related human services field.
- A minimum of one (1) year experience in the mental health field.
Certifications/Licenses
- Applicants possessing a degree in Social Work must have an active New Jersey certification/licensure, as required by the State Board of Social Work.
- Maintains DCSOC Crisis Assessment Tool (CAT) and DCSOC Crisis Intervention Specialist (CIS) certification and recertification annually.
- Valid driver’s license.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Demonstrates competency in recognizing unique needs and applying relevant crisis stabilization approaches for children and adolescent and their families.
Preferred Qualifications
Equipment Utilized
Physical Demands and Work Environment
- Must have the ability to drive and to respond to a family crisis in Essex County within one (1) hour when on-call and travel within the State.
- Per program demand, may have to work long hours.
Special Conditions
- Must be available to work on-call.
Posting Details Posting Number 22ST0257
Posting Open Date
Special Instructions to Applicants
Regional Campus Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)
Home Location Campus Newark (RBHS)
Location Details
Pre-employment ScreeningsAll offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of all pre-employment screenings.Infection Control and SafetyThis position is subject to all Rutgers University policies, including TB surveillance and other infection control and safety policies. Please review the Tuberculosis Surveillance Policy for additional information.