Therapist - SBMH

Overview:

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

We are recruiting a therapist to collaborate with the school community by providing on site services including workshops, crisis support, and counseling services (individual, group, and family) to students at their assigned school locations to increase their schools capacity to respond to the mental health needs of students.

Responsibilities:

UP TO $2,000 SIGN ON INCENTIVE

Position Description: 

• Increase accessibility of mental health services to students and help them reach their full academic, social, and emotional potential by providing short-term evidenced-based and evidenced-informed individual, group, or family treatment onsite at assigned school and/or linking students to necessary services.

• Promote engagement of families and other key stakeholders (school staff, community agencies) through involvement in treatment, coordination of care, and/or other forms of collaboration to best support students in meeting their goals.
• Build a relationship with the school community and lead CBO to ensure collaboration and proactive communication among providers and school key leadership and attend school-based meetings.
• Enhance capacity of the school community (faculty and parents) to meet the social and emotional needs of their students through delivery of trainings, workshops, presentations, and consultations.
• De-escalation of student mental health crises by providing clinical crisis assessment and intervention
• Ensure compliance with OMH and agency documentation standards by maintaining clear, concise, accurate, and timely clinical-approved documentation of treatment efforts
• Participate in all evidence-based model program training, supervision and consultation
• Ensure higher needs students have access to support in times of crisis through 24/7 weekday on call availability and participation in weekend on-call

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

Salary Range - 

Qualifications:

Education

Required - Masters Level Degree or better in counseling, social work, or related field. 

Licenses & Certifications

Required - Must be license eligible – specifically ability to apply for limited permit in mental health counseling or LMSW required.

Preferred - LCSW,

LMHC

Language

Bilingual English/Spanish - preferred

Experience

• Experience with common clinical problems including general knowledge of DSM-5 diagnoses (e.g., child abuse and neglect, aggression, family conflict, depression, anxiety, drug use, traumatic events, truancy). Experience with and willingness to work with culturally diverse population.

• Preferred knowledge of evidence based practices such as CBT, DBT, and trauma informed counseling
• Preferred strong understanding and the ability to implement the following: risk and safety assessment, safety planning, trauma assessment, crisis management, incident reporting, treatment planning, and HIPAA policies
• Excellent time management and organization skills. Computer literacy.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with others. Comfortability speaking with large audiences.

Education Required:
Masters’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institution