Licensed Social Worker

Make a bigger difference

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. 

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance. 

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays. 

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

How you can make a bigger difference: 

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 resiliency of our communities.

The Social Worker is responsible for providing necessary clinical intervention within the realm of the program. Provide culturally competent and sensitive services. The Seymour Askin Counseling Center is a licensed outpatient mental health clinic that provides services to all age groups from young children to adolescents and adults. The clinic offers a full spectrum of services to address mental health needs related to trauma, depression, anxiety, domestic violence, substance abuse, and social isolation as well as other emotional health issues. Short and long-term treatment of children, adolescents and adults at base clinic.

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working off –site in public High School setting providing consultation, assessments and treatment.
• Crisis intervention when indicated as part of the treatment.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records, e.g. progress notes, assessments and treatment plans, statistics, and other documentation as required by JB and other governmental licensing and funding entities.
• Coordinate all services for consumers, including day programs, medical care, transportation, summer camps, summer programs, recreational activities, and community inclusion (Person Centered Planning).
• Liaise between Department and consumer's family members, and relevant community members.  Provide family limited counseling.
• Prepare integrative treatment plan, based on all assessments from the other professionals and Direct Care Workers.
• Lead weekly team meetings.  Keep minutes of team meetings and ensure follow-up as necessary from meetings.
• Conduct meetings to ensure proper treatment, progress in program and coordination of goals.
• Attend annual case conference at day program or school.
• Train Direct Care Workers, as necessary.
• Participate in audit preparation.
• Work with intake coordinator on intake process for new consumers.
• Work with Direct Care Workers to enhance communication and cooperation between them and consumer families.
• Complete paperwork in a timely manner.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: 

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

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

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

•    Strong clinical direct practice skills and knowledge of evidenced based practices

•     Strong communication skills, ability to collaborate well in a multi-disciplinary team

• Computer literacy and ability to communicate effectively
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
• Knowledge and skills with evidence based practices to enhance engagement;
• Knowledge and experience with trauma informed care

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:

• NYS license in social work or clinical social work (LMSW  or LCSW)

• Bilingual Spanish-English a plus
• Bilingual Russian-English a plus
• Knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) a plus

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team and demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to assess program needs, increase efficiencies, and build teams
• Ability to develop and execute strategic plans with staff members to enhance programming

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):

• Proficient with electronic health record; Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook); comfortable and proficient using audio video platforms for telehealth services. 

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 Program Director and is based on the needs of the programs and clients served.  Travel between different program sites may be required dependent on agency/clinic need.

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.