Social Worker (Licensed) - Facilitated Intake Team
The Jewish Board

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

WORKING WITH US

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health 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. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of others.

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 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:

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 competent, 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. The Facilitated Intake Team Social Worker provides comprehensive intake assessments for clients entering the MHOTRS clinics under CCBHC umbrella with the goal of assessing their needs and making the appropriate recommendations for treatment and linkages to supportive services.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Review demographic and clinical information prior to engaging in intake process to ensure accuracy of information
• Provide a comprehensive assessment of client's social determinants of heath needs including mental health , substance use disorders , financial, housing, legal and medical needs
• Expected to complete between 6-8 intakes per day
• Present a clinical formulation in a clear and precise manner during disposition team meetings
• Ability to make recommendations for treatment modality based on clinical information obtained
• Conduct crisis evaluations and provide crisis stabilization interventions
• Make appropriate referrals for various levels of care both within the CCBHC and in the community as needed
• Assess for risk and prioritize cases deemed to be high risk for treatment. Risk includes suicide attempts/suicidal ideation or risk; symptoms of psychosis or delusions; suspicion of physical or sexual abuse; cases of domestic violence; etc.
• Develop an understanding of various support services to make an accurate referral for services when needed
• Collaborate with partnering programs/services to ensure smooth access and connection to care
• Engage in Evidence based training to develop strong diagnostic skills (SBIRT, Motivational Interviewing and others as assigned)
• Ensure timely completion (48 hours) of all intake documents into the electronic health record.

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

Skills and Knowledge:

• 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 clinical social work ( LCSW)
• Bilingual Spanish-English preferred

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:

• Ability to read paper and electronic documents
• Ability to perform data entry into various computer programs as needed

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT

In person work setting. Schedules to be developed in collaboration with Deputy Program Director and is based on the needs of the programs and clients served.

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

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.

Other details

• Job Family Clinical Staff [300s]
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator 8832 - Physician & Clerical
• Min Hiring Rate $60,000.00

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