Social Worker

Clear Destination Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Jewish Board is seeking licensed mental health clinicians for a hybrid outpatient role serving clients and families across The Bronx and Brooklyn. You will provide trauma-informed, evidence-based services including evaluations, therapy, care coordination, and crisis intervention.

Responsibilities include collaborating with families and partners to tailor treatment plans, maintaining thorough documentation, and engaging in ongoing professional development and supervision.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work and NY license/permit required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations and psychosocial assessments
• Develop treatment plans in collaboration with clients and families, to reflect progress
• Provide individual, group, family, collateral, and crisis services/interventions
• Collaborate with families, schools, criminal justice, and community agencies to coordinate care
• Maintain documentation according to standards and timeframes established by the agency
• Attend clinical and staff meetings, required training, and supervision

Skills

Clinical evaluation

Treatment planning

Crisis intervention

Anti-racist/ culturally affirming care

Team collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work with NY license or limited permit (LMHC/LCAT/LMFT/LMSW)

Tools

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Microsoft Office

Tele-mental health platforms

Job description

This position is available in The Bronx or Brooklyn

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.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This position provides clinical services as part of an Article 31 OMH certified outpatient MHOTRS clinic. The clinics are located in diverse communities and provide services to individuals of all ages and their families and support systems. Clinical services are provided using a trauma-informed, evidence-based, racially & culturally affirming approach. Interventions include, but are not limited to, evaluations; individual, group and/or family therapy; care coordination; and crisis interventions.

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
• 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, required training, 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.

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS MAY INCLUDE:

• Attending case conferences as needed
• Maintaining a steady and active caseload
• Meeting the minimum expectations for kept visits

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED:

• Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program AND aNew York State License or limited permit in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) or social work (LMSW) required.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

• Experience treating children or adolescents is preferred.
• Fluency in a second language is 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. Position entails a combination of in person and remote work. Allocation of time and locations to be developed in collaboration with Senior Program Director and is based on the needs of the programs and clients served. Travel required between program locations and other Jewish Board sites

LOCATIONS

• Seymour Askin Clinic - 2020 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11223
• Bronx Counseling (Resource) Center Clinic - 2488 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY, 10458