Empower Every New Yorker - Without Exception - to Live the Healthiest Life Possible

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city's five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description

Purpose of Position

The Licensed Social Worker LVL II is an LMSW or an LCSW who works independently as well as in collaboration with transdisciplinary teams as a primary therapist who identifies psychosocial issues and concerns of patients and their families and provide clinical services to meet their needs. The Mental Health Continuum is a collaboration of various agencies, including the Department of Education. Through this collaboration, the Social Worker will support the behavioral health needs of students in the South Bronx. They function as a therapist in the Child Outpatient Mental Health Clinic and School Based Clinic servicing child and adolescents with severe mental health conditions and co-morbid medical and substance use disorders. The goal is to provide meaningful and stable connections between school staff, who know their students and families' best, and mental health service providers committed to serving their local communities. This will allow Lincoln to more rapidly see students in need of urgent evaluation, assessment, treatment and referrals for additional support.

Areas of Responsibility

Licensed clinician with minimum 1 year of experience working clinically with the individuals with mental health conditions and substance addicted who will be responsible for providing individual and group therapy to patients in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Department of Behavioral Health. Candidate must have knowledge of resources and services for this population.

Summary of Duties & Responsibilities:

The duties include functioning as a primary therapist for subset of patients treated in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic, facilitates group therapy, conducting initial psychiatric assessment, documenting biopsychosocial assessments, formulation and disposition, developing comprehensive treatment plans, writing discharge summaries and other related paperwork. The therapist is responsible for facilitating supportive, psychoeducational and insight-oriented psychotherapeutic interventions, providing crisis interventions, engaging with and providing support to families, and engaging them in the process of recovery. The candidate is responsible for identifying and collaborating with existing support systems, facilitating community referrals for patients as needed collaborating with interdisciplinary team to develop most appropriate case dispositions, while documenting all interventions within the required regulatory timeframes. In collaboration with select schools, the Social Worker will provide timely mental health clinic appointments, urgent care, and tele-video visits to the students while in school or at home.

Minimum Qualifications

For Assignment to Level II
1. Valid license as an LMSW issued by the NYSED; or
2. Valid license as an LCSW issued by the NYSED.

Department Preferences

• At minimum 1 year experience working with the mentally ill, substance abuse and intellectually disabled population as primary therapist or evaluator.
• Ability to communicate in Spanish a plus.

Knowledgeable in:

• Mental Health and service delivery to adults

If applying online, please include your cover letter in the same file attachment with your uploaded resume.

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• Multiple employee discounts programs