Clinical Social Worker - Families Thriving (62568)

UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK • New York, NY

23d • $67,000 - $67,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

University Settlement partners with over 40,000 New Yorkers annually to foster healthy, stable, and remarkable lives by combating poverty and systemic inequality. Founded in 1886, it is the first Settlement House in the United States, continuing its mission to meet New Yorkers where they live, listen to diverse perspectives, and foster cooperation. The organization builds community strength by providing stable foundations for growth and dreams across all ages. Its programs emphasize civic engagement, equality, and communal action, including early childhood education, youth development, healthy aging, mental health and wellness, English classes for immigrants, community centers, and the arts. The Families Thriving program offers comprehensive family support, empowering families to overcome barriers and achieve greater success and peace. This program operates with an antiracist and strengths-based approach, believing families are the experts in their own lives. It focuses on holistic, family/community-driven methods, fostering connection and empathy, and dismantling inequities. Through a continuum of services, Families Thriving collaborates with children, families, and community partners to develop strengths-based, family-driven interventions that support independence and lead to success at home, school, and in the community. The program provides mental health services, the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P), psychoeducation, assessments, and supportive services for families with children aged 0-21 in Manhattan and Brooklyn. It also offers professional development trainings, Connection Circles, workshops, and consultations in partnership with schools and organizations. This specific role is crucial for expanding mental health support and access for youth and families within the Families Thriving program, with community-based positions available in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required and certification in an Evidence Based Practice consistent with CPST or Bachelor’s Deree with three years applicable experience in children’s mental health, addiction, foster care/child welfare/juvenile justice or related human services field
• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or in related human services, plus one year of applicable experience preferred
• LMSW or LCSW is a plus
• SIFI a plus
• A mover and shaker with a growth mindset; ability to multi-task a multi-faceted workload with positive energy, an innovative spirit and creative problem solving
• Firm understanding of racial inequity, strength-based and family-driven work, child and youth development, attachment, trauma, and family dynamics
• Demonstrated ability to work with and engage hard-to-reach populations as well as families, youth and young adults impacted by trauma, racial inequity, poverty, complex stressors, violence, mental health, etc.
• Experience providing clinical community and home-based services from an antiracist and trauma-informed approach
• Ability to navigate and support families and staff effectively through crises
• Excellent verbal, written and technology skills are required
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Proven track record of effectively working autonomously and in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with telehealth as well as traveling to and working in families’ homes, communities, and schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn; experience providing home-based services a plus
• Bilingual skills in English/Spanish, English/Cantonese or English/Mandarin a plus

Nice To Haves

• LMSW or LCSW is a plus
• SIFI a plus
• Bilingual skills in English/Spanish, English/Cantonese or English/Mandarin a plus
• experience providing home-based services a plus

Responsibilities

• Provide trauma-informed, healing-centered and culturally competent assessments, individual and family therapy, counseling, psychoeducation and advocacy for a caseload of at-risk children and families
• Provide community-based services with locations including at school, home, after-school programming, and/or at a community location
• Support program in conducting intensive and creative outreach and family engagement to communities, children/youth, and families in under-served areas
• Develop individualized treatment plans and facilitate service delivery within the context of the child/youth/family’s self-identified needs, goals and ethnic, religious and cultural identities as well as identifying other needed service components
• Coordinate and collaborate on treatment plans and program implementation with service providers and community partners
• Become fully knowledgeable of the mental health resources and youth department strengths/needs in service areas
• Maintain complete case management records, data collection, and documentation in the program’s Electronic Health Record systems according to Medicaid and funding requirements
• Support with facilitating workshops and presentations in the community
• Provide case management, crisis intervention, prevention and resolution as needed to further goals
• Become trained and well-versed in the program’s Electronic Health Records, TREAT and Salesforce
• Participate in team meetings, individual/group supervisions, and case conferences
• Opportunity to provide clinical and task SIFI Supervision to MSW students and staff who provide home and community-based treatment to children and families through New York State Medicaid’s Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS)
• Other related duties as assigned by Clinical Supervisor and/or Program Director

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level