Social Worker Residency Clinical Supervisor- CBT Focused

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

POSITION OVERVIEW:

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.

Social Work Residency Supervisor is primarily responsible for implementation and oversight of clinical services evidence-based models of care. Social Work Residency Supervisors are expert clinicians who teach, coach and supervise a cohort of Social Work Residents individually and in groups, in partnership with Jewish Board’s Social Work Resident Program and outside evidence-based trainers. Residency Supervisors are expected to work towards and become credentialed in the evidence-based model, often requiring them to carry and be supervised on a small caseload. Additionally, Social Work Residency Supervisors are responsible for ensuring clients receive timely access to quality clinical services, supervising Resident rotations, participating in in-person and remote training and Residency Program activities, providing on-going and formal feedback and professional development to Residents, and ensuring that treatment provided by Residents is compliant with Federal, State, City and CARF regulations and standards.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

Clinical Services:

The Social Work Residency Clinical Supervisor is responsible for implementing, clinically supervising, and overseeing evidence-based treatment models, with a focus on CBT. This role ensures that the clinical needs of individuals, families, and communities are effectively met, and that clients have timely access to quality clinical care.  Duties are as follows: 

• Work with program leadership to identify and assign clients that would benefit from the evidence-based models used in the Residency program.
• Participates in evidence-based practice training and consultation, and supports implementation of evidence-based models by Social Work Residents
• Provide weekly supervision to Social Work Residents
• Provide direct services to clients, as needed, including intakes and crisis interventions
• Develop strategies to ensure clients have timely access to care and increased engagement in care
• Collaborate with program leadership on quality improvement initiatives
• Integrate recovery, rehabilitation, treatment and vocational components of the program
• Monitor and follow up on program incidents
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Personnel:

Responsible for ensuring appropriate staffing to support clinical care and evaluating staff performance.  Duties include the following:

• Collaborate with the Learning Department in recruiting and orienting of new Social Work Residents
• Timely completion of performance appraisals and appropriately addressing performance concerns
• Conducting or participating in staff training, evidenced based treatment models consultation and   development,
• Monitor staff attendance and vacation scheduling to ensure for program coverage

Administrative Functions and Program Operations: 

As part of the leadership team, the Social Work Residency Supervisor will collaborate with clinic leadership in ensuring program operations are conducted efficiently; the program remains in compliance with relevant regulatory entities, and is fiscally viable.  Duties are as follows:

• Facilitate team meetings, case conferences, and other meetings as assigned
• Participate in residency program quality improvement and assurance activities, including completion of surveys and evaluations
• Liaise and collaborate with the Social Work Residency/Learning Department team on a regular basis
• May serve as back up to the Director or other supervisors; may assume responsibility for operations.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Master’s degree in work and New York State clinical licensure in social work (LCSW).
• Solid clinical skills and knowledgeable of evidence-based practices. 
• A minimum of 3 years prior clinical experience is required and prior, relevant supervisory experience is required. Excellent organizational skills, teamwork and communication skills.
• Experience working with electronic medical records and proficient with Microsoft Office.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:

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

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. 

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
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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.