Social Worker | Center for Jewish Mental Health

PURPOSE:The Jewish Boards Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate high-quality evidence-based services to individuals and families. The Center for Jewish Mental Health is a specialty unit within the Seymour Askin Counseling Center/Brooklyn CCBHC that offers outpatient mental health care through a culturally responsive Jewish lens. The program serves clients across New Yorks diverse Jewish communities including those seeking support related to Jewish communal family cultural grief trauma immigration intimate partner violence or other clinically relevant :This position provides outpatient clinical services within the Center for Jewish Mental Health an Article 31 OMH-certified MHOTRS clinic in the Seymour Askin Counseling Center/Brooklyn CCBHC. The social worker will carry a caseload and provide assessment treatment planning psychotherapy crisis intervention care coordination and documentation in accordance with agency and regulatory standards. Services are evidence-based trauma-informed and culturally responsive with attention to Jewish identity culture family and community life religious experience antisemitism grief trauma domestic violence immigration-related stressors relationship concerns and other clinically relevant needs. The role requires strong clinical judgment comfort working with clients from diverse Jewish backgrounds and levels of observance and collaboration with internal programs community partners and referral :Conduct comprehensive evaluations psychosocial assessments and risk assessments for clients referred to the Center for Jewish Mental review and update treatment plans in collaboration with clients and when clinically appropriate family members or other culturally responsive individual couples family group collateral and crisis services to clients served through the Center for Jewish Mental Jewish cultural context into assessment and treatment when clinically appropriate while maintaining a client-centered non-assumptive and respectful effectively with clients across a broad spectrum of Jewish identity background affiliation observance language family structure and community clinical care for presenting concerns that may include anxiety depression trauma grief and bereavement intimate partner violence immigration-related stressors family or religious conflict relationship concerns and adjustment or life care with psychiatric providers medical providers schools community agencies Jewish communal partners and other collateral supports as clinically with OneCall CIAD Jewish Community Services Lev Initiative bereavement services psychiatric services care coordination and other internal partners to support appropriate referrals assignments and continuity of in clinical meetings staff meetings CJMH/Jewish Services team consultation required trainings and timely accurate documentation according to standards and time frames established by The Jewish Board Article 31/OMH CCBHC payer regulatory and funding professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing boards relevant professional associations and Jewish Board policies and timely access to care by accepting appropriate referrals maintaining an active caseload and meeting expected productivity and kept-visit duties as FUNCTIONS MAY INCLUDE:Attending case conferences as neededMaintaining a steady and active caseloadMeeting the minimum expectations for kept visitsEDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED:Masters degree in counseling creative arts or social workfroman accredited program AND aNew York State Licenseor limited permitin Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT)Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)or social work (LMSW) REQUIRED/ LANGUAGE PREFERENCEExperience providing outpatient mental health treatment in a clinic community behavioral health or comparable setting working with Jewish clients Jewish communal settings or culturally specific mental health services cultural humility and understanding of Jewish communal life including Orthodox traditional secular immigrant Russian-speaking Hebrew-speaking and other diverse Jewish to provide culturally responsive care without stereotyping or making assumptions about clients beliefs practices gender roles family systems or community discussing sensitive topics that may intersect with Jewish identity including religious conflict family/community pressure antisemitism grief trauma intimate partner violence sexuality/gender-related concerns and disclosure-related to build trust with clients who may be hesitant to seek mental health treatment due to stigma privacy concerns communal visibility or prior negative Yiddish Russian Ukrainian or other language capacity relevant to New York Citys Jewish communities SKILLS REQUIRED:Experience with documenting in electronic health records andusing Microsoft Office softwareExperience with tele mentalhealth platforms a plusVISUALAND MANUALDEXIERITY:The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programsWORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORTHybrid work setting. Position entails a combination of in-person and remote work with in-person services based primarily at the Seymour Askin Counseling Center in Brooklyn and remote/telehealth services as clinically and operationally appropriate. Allocation of time and locations will be developed in collaboration with program leadership and based on the needs of the program and clients served. Travel may be required between program locations Jewish Board sites and community partner settings as needed.