Lev Initiative Specialist Social Worker

Jewish Board; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The Jewish Board’s Center for Jewish Mental Health in Brooklyn is seeking a licensed social worker to provide outpatient psychotherapy, assessment, and care coordination for a diverse caseload, including Lev Initiative survivors of intimate partner violence.

In this hybrid role, you will conduct psychosocial evaluations, develop treatment plans, lead individual and group therapy, and document according to regulatory standards. Fluency in relevant languages and cultural humility are valued.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in counseling, social work, or related field; NY LMSW license required.
• Experience providing outpatient mental health treatment.
• Experience with intimate partner violence, trauma, or culturally specific services preferred.
• Ability to work with diverse Jewish communities and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and documentation.
• Deliver Lev Initiative individual and group psychotherapy.
• Coordinate care with internal and external partners.
• Participate in meetings, trainings, and supervision.

Skills

Outpatient therapy

Trauma-informed care

Cultural humility

Group therapy

Multilingual capacity

Care coordination

Education

MSW or counseling degree

New York LMSW license

Tools

Electronic health records

Microsoft Office

Tele-mental health

Job description

For nearly 150 years, The Jewish Board has been delivering innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.

LOCATION
2020 Coney Island Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11223

Purpose

The Center for Jewish Mental Health provides culturally responsive outpatient mental health care within the Seymour Askin Counseling Center/Brooklyn CCBHC. This position includes a defined responsibility to provide individual and group psychotherapy through The UJA Funded – Lev Initiative, which serves Jewish survivors of intimate partner violence and their families. The clinician will also maintain a broader outpatient caseload serving clients with diverse backgrounds and clinical needs.

Position Overview

The social worker will provide assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, and documentation in accordance with agency and regulatory standards. A portion of the role will focus on Lev Initiative clients, including individual and group services for survivors of intimate partner violence and, when clinically appropriate, affected family members or children. Services should be trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and coordinated with relevant community, legal, housing, safety-planning, and clinical supports. The role is not limited to Lev clients; the clinician may also serve a diverse outpatient caseload.

Key Essential Functions

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations, psychosocial assessments, and risk assessments for clients referred to the Center for Jewish Mental Health.
• Develop, review, and update treatment plans in collaboration with clients and, when clinically appropriate, family members or other supports.
• Provide culturally responsive individual, family, group, collateral, and crisis services, including individual and group psychotherapy through The Lev Initiative.
• Integrate Jewish cultural context into assessment and treatment when clinically appropriate, while maintaining a client-centered, non-assumptive, and respectful approach.
• Work effectively with clients across a broad spectrum of Jewish identity, background, affiliation, observance, language, family structure, and community experience.
• Treat presenting concerns including trauma, grief, intimate partner violence, safety needs, family stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
• Coordinate care with psychiatric, medical, school, legal, housing, domestic violence, Jewish communal, and other collateral supports as clinically indicated.
• Collaborate with OneCall, CIAD, Jewish Community Services, The Lev Initiative, psychiatric services, care coordination, and other internal partners to support referrals, assignments, group enrollment, and continuity of care.
• Facilitate or co-facilitate Lev Initiative psychotherapy groups and document participation, progress, risks, and follow-up needs.
• Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, CJMH/Jewish Services team consultation, required trainings, and supervision.
• Maintain timely, accurate documentation according to standards and time frames established by The Jewish Board, Article 31/OMH, CCBHC, payer, regulatory, and funding requirements.
• Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing boards, relevant professional associations, and Jewish Board policies and procedures.
• Support timely access to care by accepting appropriate referrals, maintaining an active caseload, and meeting expected productivity and kept-visit standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Functions May Include

• Attending case conferences as needed
• Maintaining a steady and active caseload
• Meeting the minimum expectations for kept visit
• Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program AND a New York State License in Licensed Masters Social Worker (LMSW).

Experience Required / Language Preference

• Experience providing outpatient mental health treatment in a clinic, community behavioral health, or comparable setting preferred.
• Experience with intimate partner violence, trauma, grief, family stress, or culturally specific mental health services preferred.
• Demonstrated cultural humility and ability to serve diverse Jewish communities while also working with clients across broader backgrounds and identities
• Group therapy experience preferred.
• Ability to provide culturally responsive care without stereotyping or making assumptions about clients’ beliefs, practices, gender roles, family systems, or community expectations.
• Comfort discussing sensitive topics that may intersect with Jewish identity, including religious conflict, family/community pressure, antisemitism, grief, trauma, intimate partner violence, sexuality/gender-related concerns, and disclosure-related concerns.
• Ability to build trust with clients who may be hesitant to seek mental health treatment due to stigma, privacy concerns, communal visibility, or prior negative experiences.
• Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Ukrainian, or other language capacity relevant to New York City’s Jewish communities preferred.

Computer Skills Required

• Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software
• Experience with tele mental health platforms a plus

Visual and Manual Dexierity

The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs

Work Environment / Physical Effort

Hybrid work setting with evening hours twice a week. Position entails a combination of in-person and remote work, with in-person services based primarily at the Seymour Askin Counseling Center in Brooklyn and remote/telehealth services as clinically and operationally appropriate. Allocation of time and locations will be developed in collaboration with program leadership and based on the needs of the program and clients served. Travel may be required between program locations, Jewish Board sites, and community partner settings as needed.

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.

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Treat every person
with dignity

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Strive to
be outstanding

We are exceptional professionals in all that we do.

Embrace each
other’s differences

We create a fair and inclusive environment for all.

We heal our communities one person at a time through thoughtful collaboration.

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.