About Greenwich House: 

Founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help New York’s increasing immigrant population adjust to life in a new country, Greenwich House today offers a variety of programs and approaches that continue to provide thousands of New Yorkers with health and wellness supports, education and personal enrichment, and skills building and cultural experiences.

Position Summary

Serves as part of the CRW Leadership team. Provide effective clinical supervision to CRW therapy staff that reinforces, supports, and coaches on patient-oriented therapy to assist individuals in achieving self-sufficiency and positive treatment outcomes by combining traditional psychotherapy with a practical, problem-solving approach that creates a dynamic and efficient path for change and problem resolution. Provide direct care to individuals enrolled in treatment at CRW. This is an In-person position.

Responsibilities

• Serves as part of the CRW Leadership Team. Contributes to visioning, decision-making planning. 
• Acts as backup to the Clinical Service Director when they are off site.
• Provide clinical supervision to therapists. 
• Provide long and short-term psychotherapy to clients and collateral family members where appropriate (including crisis intervention) in person onsite or Telehealth as appropriate based on NYS OMH criteria.
• Facilitate time limited and ongoing group therapies.
• Provide Field Supervision to Social Work and/or Mental Health Counseling interns.
• Carry a case load of no less than 25 and provide clinical direct service to individuals, couples and families impacted by substance use disorders and/or co-occurring disorders via individual, group, and case management modalities.
• Meet productivity standards of 70%
• Utilize concurrent documentation in electronic health record (eCR) in compliance with NYS-OMH regulations and N.Y.C. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requirements to include periodic assessment scales; progress notes; treatment plan and treatment plan reviews, incident reports, and encounter forms.
• Collaborate with Case Manager & Peer Advocate on shared clients.
• Refer clients to appropriate community resources for case management issues/advocacy, e.g., legal, housing, health, education, vocational, entitlements.
• Maintain working relationships as needed with hospitals, nursing homes, entitlement sources, legal advocates, and other social service agencies.
• Participate in all agencies clinical staff/multidisciplinary/case conference meetings.
• Participate in all in-service trainings and avail self of off-site ongoing continuing education trainings/workshops.
• Attend and be prepared (via agenda) all supervision sessions.
• Use time efficiently and is personally well organized. 
• Keep Directors informed of progress, issues, crises, incidents, and problems to be addressed.
• Provide other clinical and/or administrative duties as requested by the CS Director.
• Participate in after-hour phone coverage pool. [Stipend provided]

Qualifications

• LCSW plus four (4) years clinical experience
• Familiarity with a range of therapeutic interventions: play therapy, family therapy, trauma informed care, CBT, DBT, ACT and psychodynamic approaches to treatment.
• Knowledge of substance use disorder and co-occurring evidenced based treatment methodologies and modalities, and experience providing direct services, screenings, and assessments to both uncomplicated and complex cases.
• Strong engagement skills and knowledge of age related, life stages, mental health conditions and harm reduction recovery.
• Experience with adult mental health 55 , knowledge of aging process, life transitions and awareness of Domestic/Intimate Partner/Gender based Violence issues, as well as GLBTQ /gender nonbinary or questioning communities, and communities of color.
• Knowledge of New York State OMH documentation requirements/NYC DOHMH reporting/documentation requirements. 
• Alignment with agency standard of ethics, conduct and organization policies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to accomplish client goals and adapt to changing program environment.
• Good communication skills, self-starter with ability to work independently and to interact with all levels of staff, both internally and externally.
• SIFI Field Instructor Certified with Field Supervisory experience with Social Work and/or LMHC interns.
• Must achieve goals beyond minimal levels of performance.
• Must be able to establish priorities and a course of action for handling multiple tasks.
• Ability to satisfactorily perform other duties upon request by the Program Director.

• Knowledge and ability to provide brief techniques, such as crisis intervention and solution-focused approaches.
• Ability to provide long-term approaches when treating chronic mental health disorders or disabilities.

Vaccination Requirement:

Greenwich House requires all new hires to be vaccinated and recommends all employees, interns, volunteers, and on-site contractors stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines (including booster shots). 

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Greenwich House is strongly committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all individuals. For more information regarding Greenwich House and our EEO statement, please visit https://www.greenwichhouse.org/about/