Behavioral Health Clinician/Social Worker

At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here.  Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
  

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.  

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance. 

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays. 

• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference: 

The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. The program provides a supervised, trauma informed therapeutic environment. The Bruner House provides Teen Services to boys and girls, ages of 13-15 years old who are struggling with a wide range of psychiatric diagnoses, emotional crises, mental health, and behavioral issues. Under their individualized service plans, youth receive comprehensive clinical treatment and education, and are able to develop independent living skills and adaptive coping strategies for managing of their emotional and behavioral issues in order transition back into their home communities.

The Social Worker/Behavioral Health Clinician works directly with the youth and their families, in collaboration with their community health providers. Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Interviewing/assessing youth and their families referred to the community residence; performing intake/admission assessments & documentation; Collaborating with, and orienting families/resources of the youth to the program services
• Developing individualized service plan for each youth, in collaboration with them, their families/resources, school, outpatient mental health providers, and other community providers
• Providing crisis intervention, clinical coordination of services, and after care as required; Working collaboratively as a member of an interdisciplinary therapeutic team
• Liaising with families, schools, healthcare providers, hospitals, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications 
 

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

• A Master’s degree in social work, counseling, or psychology is required, including the respective professional licensure; Must be a New York State licensed professional in one of the following areas: LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LCAT, etc.
• The ability to travel and navigate the community in order to provide services where the youth and family will benefit most from the services delivered
• Prior experience with electronic health records

If you join us, you’ll have these great benefits:

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays  and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans 
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities 
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation 
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program  
• Life and disability insurance 
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

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