Social Worker (Licensed)

Make a bigger difference

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 competent, 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:

The Grand Concourse Counseling Center offers the following services: child, teen, adult, and family services, emotional crisis, living with mental illness, addiction recovery, forging healthy relationships, sadness, worry and loss.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):

• Conducting comprehensive evaluations and psychosocial assessments
• Developing 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
• Providing 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
• Approaching work with an anti-racist lens and open to continuously learning and evolving
• Liaising with families, schools, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care
• Participating in clinical meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision
• Open and willing to receive constructive feedback
• Maintaining documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies and/or funding sources
• Maintaining professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED (List all that is required to achieve this position):

• A master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program, PLUS New York State Licensure or limited permit in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), or social work (LMSW) is required
• Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software
• Experience with telemental health platforms a plus
• Fluency in a second language is preferred

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE (List what the desire to reach goals):

• Experience treating children or adolescents is preferred. 
• Fluency in Spanish is preferred.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):

• Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software
• Experience with telemental 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

• Office based work environment in busy community based mental health clinic

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

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid 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.