Clinical Social Worker - Child and Family Support Services (50733)

University Settlement partners with 40,000 New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn every year to build on their strengths as they achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For over 130 years, we have collaborated with our neighbors to pioneer highly effective programs that fight poverty and systemic inequality. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening deeply to all perspectives, engaging with every individual holistically, and creating space for people to organize. Joining together with our neighbors to advocate for justice and equality, we help build community strength.

We work with New Yorkers of all ages. We infuse a commitment to civic engagement, equity, and communal action into each of our programs, which include early childhood education, mental health and wellness, benefits assistance and eviction prevention, adult literacy and education, healthy aging, community, and recreation centers, performing and visual arts, and youth development.

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/families 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 programs 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 programs 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 Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS)
• Other duties as assigned by Clinical Supervisor and/or Program Director.
  
  

Qualifications

• LMSW or LCSW
• At least 2 years of relevant experience working directly with diverse populations of children, families and/or adults
• SIFI a plus
• A mover and a 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
  
  

Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 35 hours a week with a Hybrid work schedule

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. We support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to our organization. We are an 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.