Bilingual Therapist - SBMH​/SRT

Overview

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong.

We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Within SCPS, the School Based Mental Health Program (SBMH) partners with schools around NYC to increase accessibility of mental health services to families by bringing high quality, evidence-based mental health treatment inside schools where any child enrolled in public schools can reach them. We also aim to build school’s capacity to meet the social and emotional needs of their students by empowering schools to think and operate proactively and relationally through ongoing collaboration, school faculty consultations, and delivering workshops to the school community.

* UP TO $2,000 SIGN ON INCENTIVE***

*** Sign-on Bonus is not permitted for internal candidates***

This is a full time (35 hours/week) in-person position with 5 days on-site at assigned school(s) with some occasional days at an agency office for meetings. Flexibility for remote work during school holidays/breaks. Participation in weekend on-call rotation required (approximately 4 weekends/year).

The SBMH Clinician collaborates with the school community by providing on site services including workshops, crisis support, and counseling services (individual, group, and family) to students at assigned school locations to effectively deliver mental health services and increase school's capacity to respond to the mental health needs of students

• Provide school-based individual, group, and/or family services to assigned caseload and/or provide linkage to community providers to increase community access to quality mental health resources.
• Conduct thorough intakes, screenings and assessments, and create individualized treatment plans to support with diagnosing, goal formulation, and case conceptualization.
• Provide direct clinical crisis intervention treatment using methods compatible with evidence based model principles and practices. Identify and address safety/risk factors including but not limited to suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviors, homicidal ideation, and substance abuse, including safety planning and incident reports.
• Maintain clear, concise and timely documentation of treatment efforts in progress notes that demonstrate compliance with the agency, modality, local, state, and federal guidelines.
• Engage primary caregiver(s) and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement. Collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure their buy-in and alignment throughout treatment.
• Provide psycho educational workshops to community members including school staff, caregivers, and students to support with increasing the schools' capacity to respond to the mental health needs of students.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with school community members including administration, guidance counselors, school social workers, and parent coordinators.
• Participate in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual…