Licensed Master Social Worker (NY HELPS), Secure Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (STARC) Bridgeview, P27696

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Are you looking for an opportunity where you can help people create change in their lives? The Secure Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers (STARC) are recruiting licensed social workers, Licensed Master Social Workers (LMSW) and Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), to join their team focused on providing compassionate care and support to individuals in a secure environment.

STARC has a full-time position at their location in Ogdensburg, NY; work schedule is Monday – Friday, 8-hour shifts between 6:00 am – 6:00 pm.

STARC, an Office of Mental Health (OMH) secure facility, provides intensive, sex-offense specific treatment to individuals civilly confined under New York State's Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act (SOMTA). Social workers are part of a multidisciplinary team that provides risk-relevant treatment, targeted skill development, and a range of therapeutic interventions that help high-risk individuals reduce their risk of reoffending, including:

• Reviewing, analyzing, and integrating sex offense–specific assessment information to help develop individualized treatment plans
• Providing sex offense–specific treatment primarily through group therapy, with individual sessions as needed
• Working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary treatment team through meetings and case discussions
• Participating in clinical supervision, staff development, and ongoing training
• Documenting services provided and tracking resident progress in accordance with program requirements

Candidates from outside or within State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement – Statewide (NY HELPS) program if they are licensed and currently registered by New York State as a Licensed Master Social Worker. OR Candidates within State Service can be considered transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

LMSWs are eligible for shift differential pay: 7% for evening and weekend day shifts, 10% for night shifts. All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including: NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance, access to tuition assistance programs, excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth, paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave, NYS Retirement programs.

Background checks will be required.

Notes:

• If you fail to maintain your license and/or registration once you are appointed, action will be taken to remove you from the position.
• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
• If appointed you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.