VPS CARE COORDINATOR
- New York City, NY
- $84,981-106,654 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
consultation.Visiting Psychiatric Services provides psychiatric evaluation and crisis intervention services, housing eligibility services, and assistance in obtaining federal disability benefits by working in collaboration with the Department of Homeless Services (DHS), Adult Protective Services (APS), HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), and Permanent Supportive Housing Providers throughout New York City. DSS is developing their capacity to track clients evaluated through VPS to ensure that clients identified with outstanding needs are linked to appropriate care and services, perform QA/QI, and develop standard reports; they will also develop a new program to identify those in need of psychiatric services in the DHS shelter system and methods for evaluating current service delivery outcome as well as new programming initiatives to drive service delivery improvements.DSS Medical and Health Services Office is recruiting one (1) City Research Scientist II, to function as Care Coordinator, who:Reporting directly to the Assistant Director of Evaluation, the VPS Care Coordinator will work in collaboration with the VPS multidisciplinary team to develop guidance and interventions to improve client and referring agency's engagement with the service recommendations provided by the VPS unit to improve mental health, social, and health-related consumer needs.- Record observations on the progress of biologic and social scientific research investigations, by evaluating gathered complex case data to contribute to statistical reports; use trend data and patterns to identify problems which will influence the progress of the investigation and make recommendations to improve systems to support research goals. Determine client profile who would best benefit from the VPS services, predict outcomes based on client's profile and service use, develop methods to predict which clients will have repeated requests for evaluation. Statistical methods include descriptive statistics, chi-square tests and other tests for differences, regression models, propensity score matching and survival analyses.- Develop monitoring/data collection tools, surveys and databases to support quantitative and qualitative evaluation products. Participate in quality improvement projects to improve health care delivery systems for people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Projects may include client linkage to case management services, medical/mental health/substance use treatment, or linkage to community-based resources. Study the VPS database to determine areas for improvement and work with ITS to create evaluation reports, develop and implement surveys of users of the VPS services, including other HRA units, DHS and supportive housing providers, use both quantitative and qualitative data to determine if the VPS program is meeting the stated goals, using the program's documented agreements, develop methods to facilitate care coordination by working with other agencies providing these services.- Collaborate with supervisor to continuously improve methods to use VPS and health system data sources to rapidly identify and intervene to support VPS clients with complex behavioral health and/or medical issues, such as co-occurring substance-use and mental health disorders or HIV/AIDS or neurocognitive/neurodegenerative disorders. Determine areas requiring improvements and develop targeting quality improvement projects focus on improving the use and effectiveness of the program, compare utilization of and outcomes for the four different entities using the service.- Assist with collaborating with DOHMH, DHS shelter providers, NYC Health and Hospitals, APS, HASA, OMH, and other relevant agencies to address mental health and support alliances. Collaborate with these agencies to review data and results and implement changes as needed to improve the utilization and effectiveness of the program, thereby using multi-agency input for maximum impact.Salary Range: $84,981 - $106,654Work Location: 33 Beaver Street New York, NY 10004Monday-Friday 9 AM-5 PMCITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744Qualifications1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above.NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.Additional InformationThe 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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.