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The Jewish Board

Make a bigger difference

Fee-For-Service Therapist (Hybrid Telehealth/In-Person Role): $1,000 SIGNING BONUS Positions Available in all boroughs!

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

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 that will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, vision 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.

Add to your experience and income by providing therapy to people in New York City who need vital mental health support. You'll also get:

• Paid supervision with an experienced LCSW toward clinical licensure
• Flexible schedules and reliable work with clients
• Work a minimum of 14 per week (7 hours in person and some evening hours)
• Carry a minimum caseload of 20 Clients
• 21 hours of free CEU training annually
• Minimal administrative work: leave the billing and scheduling to us!
• Opportunities to work with diverse and specialized populations per your interests.

How you can make a bigger difference:

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 affirming, 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.

This position provides clinical services as part of an OMH licensed outpatient mental health clinic/ CCBHC location Interventions include, but are not limited to, evaluations; individual, group and/or family therapy; case management; and crisis interventions. This position is hybrid and in person hours will be minimum of 7 hours (one full day) per week.

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations/ intakes as required.
• Develop treatment plans in collaboration with clients to identify treatment needs and interventions and review/revise treatment plans to reflect client's treatment progress and changing problems/goals.
• Provide individual, group, family, and crisis interventions.
• Liaise with families, schools, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care.
• Provide linkages as driven by screenings and client identified needs to embedded care coordination, SUD services, nursing, psychiatric and medical services.
• Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
• Maintain all documentation according to the standards and time frames established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies and/or funding sources.
• Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures.
• Must be available to work in the afternoons and early evening hours.
• Must provide a minimum of 20 sessions per week. Please note that at least half of these sessions must be provided in person.
• Other duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE (List what the desire to reach goals):

• A minimum of one year relevant clinical experience is required.
• Experience treating children or adolescents is preferred.
• Fluency in a second language is preferred.
• Carry a minimum caseload of 25
• Work a minimum of 12.5 hours per week
• Produce a minimum of 15 sessions per week

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):

• Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office
• Experience with telemental health platforms a plus

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:

• The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT

• Office based work environment in busy community based mental health clinic

Qualifications:

• LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, or LCAT certification in New York State.
• Capacity to handle a minimum caseload of at least 20.
• Work a minimum of 14 per week (7 hours in person and some evening hours)
• Must provide a minimum of 20 sessions per week. Please note that at least half of these sessions must be provided in person.
• Fluency in additional languages, like Spanish, Russian, or Chinese, a plus.

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 $34.00
• Max Hiring Rate $36.00

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