Senior Clinical Social Worker - Families Thriving (55871)

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.    

Our mission is to empower residents by building on their strengths through comprehensive, quality services that meet the current needs of the community; innovation that anticipates future needs; and advocacy to improve the community as a whole. 

University Settlement’s Families Thriving program offers support and resources for helping families unlock their own power and remove barriers to having more peace at home. We do this by creating lasting impact on multiple levels with an equity lens, quality assurance and a strengths-based approach. In collaboration with community partners, the program offers home and community-based services and evidence-based models, individually and in groups, to families in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn with children/youth aged 3-21. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide weekly, individualized and/or group services to youth and/or families in their home/community. 

• Conduct comprehensive, trauma-informed culturally sensitive assessments of youth in the home/community that assess child/youth and family strengths and needs 

• Conduct a range of clinical and therapeutic services and supports to youth, families, and community partners in their home/community 

• Support with leading community-level interventions, support, and mental health access 

• Conduct intensive outreach to Lower East Side community, children/youth, and families 

• Develop individualized service plans and facilitate service delivery within the context of the child/youth/family’s self-identified needs, goals and ethnic, religious and cultural identities as well as identifying other needed service components 

• Must become fully knowledgeable of the mental health resources  

• Coordinate treatment plans and collaborate with service providers and community partners. 

• Maintain complete case management records, data collection, and documentation in the program’s Electronic Health Record systems according to Medicaid and funding requirements 

• Provide crisis intervention, prevention and resolution as needed 

• Establish and facilitate workshops, presentations, community partnerships and trainings in the community as needed 

• Become trained in and execute evidence-based models 

• Become SIFI trained and supervise intern(s) as assigned 

• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director. 

Qualifications: 

• MSW required 

• LMSW/LMHC/LMFT required (clinicians with limited permits will be considered) 

• SIFI or SIFI eligible, LCSW or LCSW eligible a plus 

• At least two years of clinical experience working with a diverse population of youth and families required 

• A mover and shaker with a growth mindset; ability to multi-task a