Lev Initiative Specialist Social Worker

The Center for Jewish Mental Health provides culturally responsive outpatient mental health care within the Seymour Askin Counseling Center/Brooklyn CCBHC. This position includes a defined responsibility to provide individual and group psychotherapy through The UJA Funded - Lev Initiative, which serves Jewish survivors of intimate partner violence and their families. The clinician will also maintain a broader outpatient caseload serving clients with diverse backgrounds and clinical needs.

The social worker will provide assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, and documentation in accordance with agency and regulatory standards. A portion of the role will focus on Lev Initiative clients, including individual and group services for survivors of intimate partner violence and, when clinically appropriate, affected family members or children. Services should be trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and coordinated with relevant community, legal, housing, safety-planning, and clinical supports.

The role is not limited to Lev clients; the clinician may also serve a diverse outpatient caseload.

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations, psychosocial assessments, and risk assessments for clients referred to the Center for Jewish Mental Health.

• Develop, review, and update treatment plans in collaboration with clients and, when clinically appropriate, family members or other supports.

• Provide culturally responsive individual, family, group, collateral, and crisis services, including individual and group psychotherapy through The Lev Initiative.

• Integrate Jewish cultural context into assessment and treatment when clinically appropriate, while maintaining a client-centered, non-assumptive, and respectful approach.

• Work effectively with clients across a broad spectrum of Jewish identity, background, affiliation, observance, language, family structure, and community experience.

• Treat presenting concerns including trauma, grief, intimate partner violence, safety needs, family stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

• Coordinate care with psychiatric, medical, school, legal, housing, domestic violence, Jewish communal, and other collateral supports as clinically indicated.

• Collaborate with One Call, CIAD, Jewish Community Services, The Lev Initiative, psychiatric services, care coordination, and other internal partners to support referrals, assignments, group enrollment, and continuity of care.

• Facilitate or co-facilitate Lev Initiative psychotherapy groups and document participation, progress, risks, and follow-up needs.

• Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, CJMH/Jewish Services team consultation, required trainings, and supervision.

• Maintain timely, accurate documentation according to standards and time frames established by The Jewish Board, Article 31/OMH, CCBHC, payer, regulatory, and funding requirements.

• Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing boards, relevant professional associations, and Jewish Board policies and procedures.

• Support timely access to care by accepting appropriate referrals, maintaining an active caseload, and meeting expected productivity and kept-visit standards.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Attending case conferences as needed

• Maintaining a steady and active caseload

• Meeting the minimum expectations for kept visit

• Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program AND a New York State License in Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).

• Experience providing outpatient mental health treatment in a…