Senior Clinical Social Worker - Families Thriving (62683

Job Details

Job Location:

189 Allen Street
- New York, NY 10002

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $69,000.00 - $76,000.00 Salary/year

University Settlement partners with 40,000+ New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn every year to build on our collective strengths as we achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. Fornearly 140years,we’vefought poverty and systemic inequality by building highly effective social services in collaboration with our neighbors. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening deeply to all perspectives, and creating space for responsive cooperation.

Joining withour neighbors to make stable foundations where people of all ages can grow and pursue their dreams, we build community strength. We infuse a commitment to civic engagement, equality, and communal action into each of our programs, which include early childhood education, youth development, healthy aging, mental health and wellness, English classes for adult immigrants, community centers, and the arts.

Our mission is to empower residents by building on their strengths through comprehensive, quality services that meet the current needs of the community; innovation that anticipates future needs; and advocacy to improve the community as a whole.

University Settlement’s Families Thriving program offers support and resources for helping families unlock their own power and remove barriers to having more peace  do this by creating lasting impact on multiple levels with an equity lens, quality assurance and a strengths-based approach. In collaboration with community partners, the program offers home and community-based services and evidence-based models, individually and in groups, to families in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn with children/youth aged 3-21.

• Provide weekly, individualized and/or group services to youth and/or families in their home/community.
• Conduct comprehensive, trauma-informed culturally sensitive assessments of youth in the home/community that assess child/youth and family strengths and needs
• Conduct a range of clinical and therapeutic services and supports to youth, families, and community partners in their home/community
• Support with leading community-level interventions, support, and mental health access
• Conduct intensive outreach to Lower East Side community, children/youth, and families
• Develop individualized service plans and facilitate service delivery within the context of the child/youth/family’s self-identified needs, goals and ethnic, religious and cultural identities as well as identifying other needed service components
• Must become fully knowledgeable of the mental health resources
• Coordinate treatment plans and collaborate with service providers and community partners.
• Maintain complete case management records, data collection, and documentation in the program’s Electronic Health Record systems according to Medicaid and funding requirements
• Provide crisis intervention, prevention and resolution as needed
• Establish and facilitate workshops, presentations, community partnerships and trainings in the community as needed
• Become trained in and execute evidence-based models
• Become SIFI trained and supervise intern(s) as assigned
• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director.

• MSW required
• LMSW/LMHC/LMFT required (clinicians with limited permits will be considered)
• SIFI or SIFI eligible, LCSW or LCSW eligible a plus
• At least twoyears of clinical experience working with a diverse population of youth and families required
• A mover and shaker with a growth mindset; ability to multi-task a multi-faceted workload with positive energy, an innovative spirit and creative problem solving
• Firm understanding of strength-based work, child and youth development, attachment, trauma, and family dynamics
• Demonstrated ability to work with and engage hard-to-reach populations as well as families and youth impacted by trauma, poverty, complex stressors, violence, mental health, etc.
• Experience providing community and home-based services from a culturally…