Social Worker
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.
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.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
The Staten Island Clinic is an outpatient mental health clinic that provides psychiatric services to children 0-18 and adults. The Jewish Board is one of two clinics that services children and adolescents on Staten Island; a community that is limited in behavioral health resources. Services include individual, family, couples and group therapy as well medication management. The population served faces challenges and impaired functioning related to diagnoses such as: PTSD, Bi-Polar Disorder, MDD, Generalized Anxiety, ADHD, Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
This position provides clinical services as part of an Article 31 OMH certified outpatient mental health 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, 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.
EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:
- Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program
- New York State License or limited permit in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), 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
- Office based work environment in busy community based mental health clinic
- This is an onsite position
