Lev Initiative Specialist Social Worker

The Jewish Board•Brooklyn, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Center for Jewish Mental Health provides culturally responsive outpatient mental health care within the Seymour Askin Counseling Center/Brooklyn CCBHC. This social worker will provide individual and group psychotherapy through The UJA Funded - Lev Initiative, which serves Jewish survivors of intimate partner violence and their families, while also maintaining a broader outpatient caseload serving clients with diverse backgrounds and clinical needs. The role includes assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, and documentation in accordance with agency and regulatory standards. Lev Initiative services may include individual and group services for survivors of intimate partner violence and, when clinically appropriate, affected family members or children. Services are to be trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and coordinated with relevant community, legal, housing, safety-planning, and clinical supports. The position provides comprehensive evaluations, psychosocial and risk assessments, and culturally responsive individual, family, group, collateral, and crisis services. The clinician integrates Jewish cultural context when clinically appropriate while maintaining a client-centered, non-assumptive, and respectful approach. Work includes coordination with internal and external supports, facilitation or co-facilitation of Lev Initiative groups, participation in consultation, meetings, training, and supervision, and timely clinical documentation. The position is hybrid, combining in-person services primarily at the Seymour Askin Counseling Center in Brooklyn with remote or telehealth services as appropriate. Travel between program locations, Jewish Board sites, and community partner settings may be required.

Requirements

Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program.
New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license.
Demonstrated cultural humility and ability to serve diverse Jewish communities while also working with clients across broader backgrounds and identities.
Ability to provide culturally responsive care without stereotyping or making assumptions about clients’ beliefs, practices, gender roles, family systems, or community expectations.
Comfort discussing sensitive topics that may intersect with Jewish identity, including religious conflict, family or community pressure, antisemitism, grief, trauma, intimate partner violence, sexuality- or gender-related concerns, and disclosure-related concerns.
Ability to build trust with clients who may be hesitant to seek mental health treatment due to stigma, privacy concerns, communal visibility, or prior negative experiences.
Experience documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software.
Ability to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.

Nice To Haves

Experience providing outpatient mental health treatment in a clinic, community behavioral health, or comparable setting.
Experience with intimate partner violence, trauma, grief, family stress, or culturally specific mental health services.
Group therapy experience.
Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Ukrainian, or other language capacity relevant to New York City’s Jewish communities.
Experience with tele mental health platforms.

Responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive evaluations, psychosocial assessments, and risk assessments for clients referred to the Center for Jewish Mental Health.
Develop, review, and update treatment plans in collaboration with clients and, when clinically appropriate, family members or other supports.
Provide culturally responsive individual, family, group, collateral, and crisis services, including individual and group psychotherapy through The Lev Initiative.
Integrate Jewish cultural context into assessment and treatment when clinically appropriate while maintaining a client-centered, non-assumptive, and respectful approach.
Serve clients across a broad spectrum of Jewish identity, background, affiliation, observance, language, family structure, and community experience, as well as clients from broader backgrounds and identities.
Treat concerns including trauma, grief, intimate partner violence, safety needs, family stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Coordinate care with psychiatric, medical, school, legal, housing, domestic violence, Jewish communal, and other collateral supports as clinically indicated.
Collaborate with OneCall, CIAD, Jewish Community Services, The Lev Initiative, psychiatric services, care coordination, and other internal partners to support referrals, assignments, group enrollment, and continuity of care.
Facilitate or co-facilitate Lev Initiative psychotherapy groups and document participation, progress, risks, and follow-up needs.
Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, CJMH/Jewish Services team consultation, required trainings, and supervision.
Maintain timely and accurate documentation according to The Jewish Board, Article 31/OMH, CCBHC, payer, regulatory, and funding requirements.
Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards established by licensing boards, relevant professional associations, and Jewish Board policies and procedures.
Support timely access to care by accepting appropriate referrals, maintaining an active caseload, and meeting expected productivity and kept-visit standards.
Attend case conferences as needed.
Meet minimum expectations for kept visits.
Perform other duties as assigned.