RN - Crisis Intervention

Duties:     
• Engage the homeless on city streets, subways, and parks and conduct medical, mental health and safety assessments.
• Encourage the street homeless population to seek shelter in New York City.
• Provide the homeless population with needed services by ascertaining if there is a reasonable cause to believe that a homeless individual has a mental illness or medical condition for which immediate observation, care and treatment in a hospital is appropriate.
• Evaluate a person’s mental health condition to determine if such person appears to be mentally ill and is conducting himself or herself in a manner which is likely to result in a serious harm or substantial risk of physical harm to themselves or others.
• Assess a person’s mental health condition to determine if such person manifest homicidal or violent behavior which places others in reasonable fear of physical harm.
• Determine the appropriate mechanism for transporting a person in mental crisis to the appropriate C.P.E.P (Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program) location, if necessary, with the assistance of Law Enforcement (Sheriff’s Department or NYPD),
• Collaborate with outreach teams regarding the continuum of care and the appropriate discharge planning.

Skills:     
• Candidates with strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills and those who have taken courses in mental & behavioral health

Education:     
• A valid New York State Registered Nurse License.