Fee For Service Social Worker - Families Thriving (50130)

University Settlement partners with 40,000 New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn every year to build on their strengths as they achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For 135 years, we’ve collaborated with our communities to pioneer highly effective programs that fight poverty and systemic inequality. 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 to their perspectives, recognizing their excellence, understanding them as complete individuals, and creating space for them to organize. Joining together with our neighbors to advocate for justice and equality, we help build community strength.   

We work with New Yorkers of all ages. We infuse a commitment to civic engagement, equity, and communal action into each of our programs, which include early childhood education, mental health and wellness, benefits assistance and eviction prevention, adult literacy and education, healthy aging, community, and recreation centers, performing and visual arts, and youth development.

University Settlement's Families Thriving is wraparound family support program offering support and resources for helping families unlock their own power and remove barriers to having more success and peace. We do this by creating lasting impact on multiple levels with an antiracist lens and a strengths-based approach. We believe families are the experts on their family, in taking an approach that’s holistic and family/community-drive, fostering connection and empathy within all members of our community, and dismantling barriers, especially inequity.

Through a connected continuum of supports and services we work collaboratively with children and families to develop treatment plans that are strengths-based and family-driven, support independence and sustainability, and lead to more success at home, at school, and in the community. Families Thriving provides internationally acclaimed evidence-based model, Triple P (Positive Parenting Program), as well as psychoeducation, assessments, mental health counseling, and support services to families with children ages 0-21 in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Responsibilities:

• Provide assessments, individual and family therapy, and/or community psychiatric supports and treatment to an ethnically and culturally diverse population.
• Provide Medicaid billable supports and services in person (including home, school, during after-school, and/or community locations) and/or using Telehealth.
• Provide services appropriate for the discipline, family’s strengths and needs, and in accordance with OMH and NYS Medicaid regulations, Families Thriving Policies, and professional standards.
• Maintain clinical records in accordance with OMH standards, complete all necessary documentation required by OMH, NYS Medicaid and Families Thriving policies.
• Participate in staff meetings, case conferences, training seminars and individual supervisory meetings, as required.
• Learn and utilize the electronic record charting system and maintain service hour tracking.
• Other duties deemed necessary by the Director pertaining to provision of effective services.
• Demonstrated ability to engage new and challenging cases.
• Function as a member of an interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required and certification in an Evidence Based Practice consistent with CPST or BA with three years applicable experience in children’s mental health, addiction, foster case/child welfare/juvenile justice or related human services field.
• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or related human services field, plus on year of applicable experience preferred.
• LMSW or LCSW is a plus.
• Two years of clinical experience in a mental health setting preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with time limited treatment approaches.
• Bilingual skills in English/Mandarin/Cantonese or English/Spanish preferred.

Hours: 10 hours per week

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. We support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to our organization. We are an equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

Salary : $35 - $50