Licensed Social Worker

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Other Licensed Professional to join their dedicated team. This role focuses on delivering community-based mental health services to children and adolescents, utilizing evidence-based practices such as Functional Family Therapy. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the organization supports career development and offers a collaborative environment. You'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of families while working within a supportive team that values your contributions. Join a mission-driven organization that has been serving New Yorkers for nearly 150 years and help shape the future of mental health care in the community.

Benefits

Generous paid time off

Affordable medical/dental/vision plans

Tuition assistance

Free continuing education opportunities

403(b) retirement benefits

Life and disability insurance

24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Strong clinical skills and knowledge of evidence-based practices are essential.
• Experience treating children or adolescents is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide community-based mental health services to children/youth.
• Conduct evaluations, develop treatment plans, and provide therapy.

Skills

Clinical Direct Practice Skills

Communication Skills

Crisis Intervention

Culturally Affirming Approach

Self-Reflection

Education

LMSW

LCSW

LMFT

LMHC

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist

Licensed Psychoanalysts

Tools

Electronic Health Records

Microsoft Office

Job description

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Make a bigger difference

All Staten Island programs are allotted a $4,420 commuter differential that is applicable to anyone who currently works or is hired to work on Staten Island who doesn’t live in Staten Island in addition to the base salary or hourly wage.

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.
• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

PURPOSE:

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 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 resilience of our communities.

The Other Licensed Professional (OLP) will provide community-based mental health services in the home and other natural community-based settings, to children/youth designed to prevent the progression of behavioral health needs through early identification and intervention, and to assess the needs of children/youth for which behavioral health conditions have not yet been diagnosed. The OLP FFT uses the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) modality with target population(s) with its own referral and reporting requirements. The therapist will provide, at a minimum, weekly one-hour, home-based family therapy sessions to clients. The therapist will utilize the FFT model with families who have adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18. The therapist will be required to carry a caseload of 10 to 15 families, providing services anywhere from eight to 26 weeks. This position requires flexibility in hours to meet families when they are available.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations and psychosocial assessments.
• Develop treatment plans in collaboration with clients and family members (as appropriate), to identify treatment needs and interventions and review/revise treatment plans to reflect client’s treatment progress and changing problems/goals.
• Provide individual, group, family, collateral treatment and crisis services/interventions.
• Ability to internalize and work within the FFT philosophy and model.
• Be actively self-reflective & self-aware of how clinical and administrative practice impacts clients, families, and the communities we serve.
• Approach work with an anti-racist lens and open to continuously learning and evolving.
• Liaise with families, schools, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care.
• Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
• Open and willing to receive constructive feedback.
• Maintain documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies and/or funding sources.
• Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

COMPETENCIES:

• Strong clinical direct practice skills and knowledge of evidenced based practices.
• Strong communication skills, ability to collaborate well in a multi-disciplinary team.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:

• LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist or Licensed Psychoanalysts in New York State.
• Prior experience with electronic health records and Microsoft Office.
• To perform the essential functions of this job the candidate must be able to travel within Staten Island carrying equipment such as a notebook, forms, laptop, mobile hotspot, and cell phone weighing up to approximately 10 pounds.
• A valid driver license and access to a vehicle (for Staten Island).

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

• Experience treating children or adolescents is preferred.
• Fluency in a second language is preferred.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Prior experience with electronic health records and Microsoft Office a plus.

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXTERITY:

• Able to read data and documents, including spreadsheets, reports and Electronic Health Records in printed form and on computer screens.
• Able to input data into the Electronic Health Record.
• Limited applications of manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT:

Physical Demands:

• Regularly required to speak clearly and hear the spoken word well.
• Regularly required to physically operate routine office equipment such as telephones, computers, etc.
• Regularly required to utilize near vision ability and to read data and documents, including spreadsheets, reports and Electronic Health Records in printed form and on computer screens.
• Regularly required to travel to various locations to meet with clients.
• Noise level is consistent with levels usually present in an office, education, rehabilitation or health related environment.
• Hazards present are consistent with those common to an office, education, rehabilitation or health related environment.

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

• Generous paid time off in addition to 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.

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