[NYAPRS Enews] Job: HHC Office of Behavioral Health; Asst. Dir. Consumer Affairs & Recovery-NYC

[Matt Canuteson]

NYAPRS Note: The following employment opportunity comes to us from the
NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation's Office of Behavioral Health.

 

Job Announcement

NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation

Office of Behavioral Health

Assistant Director for Consumer Affairs and Recovery Initiatives

NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, the largest municipal healthcare
provider in the U.S., seeks a senior level manager to provide leadership
and administrative oversight to an array of projects at Central Office,
in the Office of Behavioral Health pertaining to consumer services.

Under the supervision of the Senior Director of Mental Health, the
candidate for the position uses their own experience as a mental health
consumer to serve as a role model for others in the Corporation and to
reinforce the power of hope and resiliency, and uses such personal
experience to inform all aspects of work.  

The candidate will:

*             Manage projects related to rehabilitation and recovery;

*             Identify and provide opportunities for training focused on
recovery and resiliency and provide technical assistance in bringing
such science to actual practice;

*             Provide technical assistance and resources regarding
integrating health, mental health and substance abuse treatment and
recovery;

*             Conduct and manage projects related to HHC peer
counselors, including developing opportunities that will expand upon the
recruitment, training and retention of peer counselors at HHC;

*             Provide educational events that promote motivation to
change specifically in regard to vocational and educational goals and
establish evaluative summaries for each;

*             Write reports and correspondence;

*             Represent HHC in the wider consumer community; and,

*             Assist HHC leadership in moving forward in making services
person-centered and strengths-based.  

Qualifications:

The candidate should have a proven record as a change agent,
demonstrated organizational and leadership skills as well as excellent
written and oral skills.  The candidate will work within a team at a
central location but will be expected to travel often throughout the
boroughs of NYC.  A bachelor's degree in human services required;
masters degree preferred; at least five (5) years of progressively
responsible work in the field of rehabilitation and recovery of persons
with mental illness and/or co-occurring mental illness and substance
abuse, with some evidence of administrative responsibilities.  

Excellent Benefits Package

 

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to Marylee Burns at
marylee.burns at nychhc.org.

 

 

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