Senior Social Worker

Salary: $70,000-$80,000 per year

A nationally recognized comprehensive Health and Human Services Agency, with over 60 programs across New York City and greater New York Area, Samaritan Daytop Village, serves over 33,000 New Yorkers annually within your neighborhoods and communities so our success depends on those we employ.

The Senior Social Worker is a clinician who has at least 2 years of clinical experience working with clients with behavioral health concerns. This experience allows them to take on additional responsibility such as supervising interns or helping to coordinate mental health related treatment activities such as case assignments, training of staff, or record review. The Senior Social Worker acts as a conduit for information regarding mental health services between the program’s management team and clinical staff.

The Senior Social Worker is often the lead in the evaluation and treatment of complex cases and may be responsible for the design, creation, and implementation of on-site service training.

• Conduct mental status examinations and bio-psychosocial assessments.
• Provide individual, group and family counseling consistent with the objectives identified in clients’ individual treatment plans and make referrals for appropriate levels of care based on the needs of the program.
• Design and implement mental health in-service education for clinical staff.
• Train and support clinical staff to work with complex cases.
• Provide mental health resources to clinical staff.
• Supervise social work interns.
• Audit client treatment records for compliance with agency standards for completeness, timeliness and appropriateness.
• Facilitate in-service staff training designed to respond to anticipated and/or identified areas of need.
• Adhere to social work standards and ethical principles, agency policies and procedures, and maintain professional relationships with other disciplines, clients, and community supports.
• Demonstrate a commitment to maintaining the knowledge and skill necessary to facilitate didactic, process experiential and supportive group approaches.
• Ensure maintenance of accurate, complete, timely and high-quality client records that comply with external regulatory standards and agency policy and procedure.
• Comply with 42 CFR confidentiality and HIPAA privacy and security regulations.
• Function as a liaison/advocate to clients’ families and/or other agencies as needed.
• Work cooperatively with other staff as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• In designated programs, monitor program participants for signs and symptoms of physical, sexual, and other forms of abuse/domestic violence, conduct trauma assessments and make notifications as mandated by agency policy and NYS laws.
• Adhere to all responsibilities and duties of a New York State mandated reporter.

• Master’s Degree in Social Work with a LCSW license (an LMSW with over 3 years of clinical experience may be considered).
• Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated clinical experience in substance use and/or mental health treatment.
• Prior supervisory experience preferred and the ability to supervise interns and train staff required.
• Strong assessment and writing skills and familiarity with various therapeutic models of care, i.e. Trauma Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), etc.
• In-depth knowledge of NYC/NYS diverse network of medical and behavioral health care organizations, including substance use disorders, treatment services, education and employment services, and non-traditional community support groups is a plus.
• Computer literacy including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and EHR.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.