Licensed Master Social Worker (NY HELPS), Bronx Psychiatric Center, P28388

New York State Office of Mental Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition assistance

Advancement opportunities

Paid time off

Retirement programs

Job summary

Bronx Psychiatric Center, part of the New York State Office of Mental Health, is recruiting for Licensed Master Social Worker to provide professional social work services to individuals with mental illness.

As an LMSW, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering culturally competent, evidence-based treatment in a recovery-oriented environment, focusing on crisis intervention, discharge planning, treatment planning, and community resource linkage.

Qualifications

• LMSW license required or eligible for transfer under NY HELPS program.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience providing social work services to individuals with mental illness.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention and discharge planning.
• Develop treatment plans with individuals and treatment team; monitor and adjust as needed.
• Identify community resources and establish linkages for continuity of care.
• Support efforts to reduce aggressive behaviors and enhance coping strategies on the unit.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Discharge planning

Treatment planning

Community liaison

Education

LMSW license

Job description

Duties Description

Are you ready to start your Social Work career with New York State? Bronx Psychiatric Center is recruiting for Licensed Master Social Worker to provide professional social work services to individuals with mental illness. Candidates from outside or within State Service can apply.

Duties Description

Are you ready to start your Social Work career with New York State? Bronx Psychiatric Center is recruiting for Licensed Master Social Worker to provide professional social work services to individuals with mental illness. Candidates from outside or within State Service can apply.

As a Licensed Master Social Worker, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team that provides culturally competent and evidence-based treatment and support services in a recovery-oriented environment to individual with mental illness.

Duties include:

• Providing crisis intervention, service linkages, and discharge planning
• Developing treatment plans with individuals and treatment team; monitoring and evaluating progress; and modifying treatment plans as needed
• Determining discharge needs and appropriate community resources
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with community providers to ensure continuity of care

Licensed Master Social Workers are needed in order to provide individual and group counseling services to patients on the Treatment Learning Collaborative Unit. The ultimate goal of the unit is to decrease aggressive behaviors and to stabilize the patient. This will include intensive and supportive therapeutic treatment, with the aim to reduce their risk of violence, develop positive coping strategies, and prevent harm due to untreated psychopathological symptoms.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates from outside or within State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement – Statewide (NY HELPS) program if they are licensed and currently registered by New York State as a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW).

OR

Candidates within State Service can be considered transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

Additional Comments

All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including:

• NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Access to tuition assistance programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
• Paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave
• NYS Retirement programs

Background checks will be required.

Additional compensation may apply based on shift assignment. 7% shift differential for evening shift and weekend days. 10% shift differential for night shift.

This position is eligible for the Downstate Adjustment of $4,150.

NOTE:

• If you fail to maintain your license and/or registration once you are appointed, action will be taken to remove you from the position.
• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
• If appointed you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.