What are the responsibilities and job description for the Other Licensed Practitioner (OLP) Therapist position at HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK?
The Licensed Professional (Other Licensed Practitioner – OLP) is a field-based clinician who provides comprehensive behavioral health services directly within the communities where children and families live, attend school, and engage in daily life. Rather than providing traditional office-based therapy, the Licensed Professional travels throughout the community to deliver services in homes, schools, and other natural settings, allowing treatment to occur in the environments where challenges arise and skills can be practiced in real time.
The OLP is responsible for conducting comprehensive psychosocial assessments, establishing diagnoses and determining medical necessity, developing individualized treatment plans, providing individual, family, and group psychotherapy, delivering crisis intervention, and coordinating care with families and community providers. This role requires flexibility, strong clinical judgment, and the ability to independently manage a community-based caseload while collaborating closely with caregivers, schools, medical providers, and multidisciplinary team members. The overall goal is to improve emotional and behavioral functioning, strengthen family relationships, promote stability across home, school, and community settings, and reduce the need for higher levels of behavioral health intervention.
Essential Functions and Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide field-based behavioral health services in homes, schools, and community settings where children and families naturally live, learn, and interact.
- Travel throughout the assigned service area to meet families in the community and deliver clinically appropriate interventions in natural environments.
- Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to identify behavioral health needs, establish diagnoses, and determine medical necessity for services.
- Develop individualized, person-centered treatment plans in collaboration with children, families, and multidisciplinary providers.
- Provide evidence-based individual, family, and group psychotherapy to address emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs.
- Deliver crisis intervention, safety planning, and stabilization services during psychiatric, behavioral, or situational crises.
- Collaborate with caregivers, schools, healthcare providers, and community agencies to coordinate services and support treatment goals.
- Connect families to medically necessary behavioral health, educational, and community resources based on identified needs.
- Complete accurate, timely, and compliant documentation, including assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, and required reports.
- Participate in weekly clinical supervision, team meetings, and required trainings while maintaining regulatory and agency compliance.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned, consistent with the scope, responsibilities, and level of the position, and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and organizational policies.
- Master’s in Mental Health Counseling or Social Work Required; NYS Licensed LCSW, LMSW, LMHC, MHC-LP.
- Flexibility to conduct home visits throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Coney Island-based preferred.
Benefits
What we offer once YOU join our growing family:
At Heartshare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time/part-time status. You can expect:
- Rewarding Work in a team environment.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays.
- 403(B) retirement plans with employer contribution.
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit).
- Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.
- Tuition Assistance Program.
- Professional Development opportunities.
- Gympass Discount
- Verizon Wireless Discount.
- BJs Membership discount.
- Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates & more
Heartshare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out to Leaves@heartshare.org.
About Heartshare
Who WE ARE:
For over 150 years, Heartshare has been dedicated to championing and empowering New Yorkers society has too often overlooked and underestimated.
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