Behavioral Health Clinician

The Jewish Board; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Jewish Board seeks a Clinician for its Community Behavioral Health programs, focusing on providing trauma-informed mental health treatment to diverse youth populations in New York. The position requires collaboration with schools and other providers, emphasizing culturally sensitive interventions and the development of supportive relationships within communities.

Benefits

Generous paid time off

Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness

403(b) retirement benefits and pension

Affordable high-quality health insurance

Free continuing education opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing risk for suicidality and abuse, safety planning.
• Direct practice experience with children and youth.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience with similar population/setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health treatment and interventions to adolescents.
• Coordinate with school personnel and manage client issues.
• Maintain accurate case records and participate in supervision.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Trauma-informed care

Culturally sensitive treatment

Collaboration

Education

Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Job description

34 W 139th St, New York, NY 10037, USA Req #13519

Monday, August 14, 2023

Make a bigger difference

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population, you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally competent affirming, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resiliency of our communities.

POSITIONOVERVIEW :

The Clinician role is responsible for providing mental health treatment and collateral sessions to adolescents at an article 31 licensed school-based satellite clinic for students enrolled in a public school in Manhattan and in the Harlem mental health clinic. As part of a therapeutic team within the Agency, the clinician works closely with supervisor and director to ensure the appropriate treatment and best practice clinical interventions are utilized.

The clinician is responsible for providing trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, evidence-based interventions to clients and families; crisis intervention; risk management; advocating for clients/families; and coordinating and collaborating with other providers engaged in the client’s care to maximize treatment outcomes. The position requires regular and routine interactions with school personnel and development of strong relationships within the school community.

KEYESSENTIALFUNCTIONS:

• Provide trauma-informed, evidence-based, racially & culturally sensitive treatment interventions with children & youth, inclusive of their families and support systems.Modalities include play therapy; individual, groups, family, collateral treatment
• Actively self-reflective & self-aware of how their clinical and administrative practice impacts clients.
• Open and willing to receive constructive feedback
• Approach work with an anti-racist lens and willing to continuously learn and evolve to this regard
• Provide crisis intervention when needed
• Outreach to clients and families to establish care as well as increase or maintain engagement in care
• Collaborate and Coordinate with school personnel to manage client issues and improve outcomes
• Care coordination with outside treatment providers/systems with the goal of improving client outcomes
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date case records, e.g., progress notes, assessments and treatment plans, statistics, and other documentation as required by The Jewish Board and other governmental licensing and funding entities
• Participate in supervision and training activities
• Attend scheduled staff meetings and clinical team meetings
• Engage in continuing education and professional development training
• Perform related duties as assigned.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAININGREQUIRED:

• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).

EXPERIENCEREQUIRED/LANGUAGEPREFERENCE :

• PREFERENCES: Fluency in a South Asian language and/or a part of a marginalized community
• Experience in assessing risk for suicidality and abuse, safety planning
• Takes initiative in building collaborative relationships, confident in setting appropriate boundaries, seeks guidance, when necessary, communicates and collaborates with supervisor, is resourceful.
• Direct practice experience with children and youth.
• A minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience with similar population/setting strongly preferred. The school serves a high-needs community of immigrants as well as longtime community residents and young people of color.

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous paid time off in addition to 15 agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

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