Social Worker

Compensation Range: $73,000 - $78,000 yearly commensurate with experience 

Benefits:We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview:

In partnership with the Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD), Housing Works launched the CRED Program, a new specialized 24-week paid training program for justice-involved and justice-impacted individuals ages 25 – 40. The program provides case management, connection to wraparound health services and mental health counseling support, industry recognized credential trainings, paid internships and employment placement and retention support. Reporting to the Program Manager, the Social Worker will be responsible for, but not limited to, leading the case management services provided, supervising two case managers, providing training and clinical support to the CRED care team, conducting psychosocial assessments with newly enrolled clients, providing individual and group level counseling, ensuring all clients have co-developed, comprehensive service plans and overall ensuring CRED Program clients are connected with mental health support services needed.

Responsibilities:

Primary:

• Oversee and lead the clinical services provided through the CRED Program.
• Provide supervision, guidance and support for the Case Managers.
• Conduct initial and comprehensive assessments with clients newly enrolled in the program.
• Provide individual and group level counseling services.
• Ensure all clients have active, comprehensive service plans throughout their engagement in programming.
• Assist with referring clients to internal and external healthcare services as needed.
• Assist program management with developing and monitoring quality assurance standards.
• Participate in the development and implementation of quality improvement projects.
• Engage in crisis intervention as needed.
• Facilitate staff trainings to promote professional development and enhancing clinical interventions.
• Utilize internal and external data systems to document client outcomes and engagement in program services.

Secondary:

• Provide culturally competent services in accordance to Housing Works policies and practices.
• Promote Housing Works core values consistently.
• Ability to work with clients with diverse clients with varying levels of service needs.
• Works collaboratively with other team members within the Justice Initiatives Department and cross-agency.

Other functions that may be required with this position include:

• Attend and participate staff meetings and trainings as scheduled.
• Responsiveness to emails, texts and phone calls.
• Adhere to remote workforce policies, procedures and protocols.

Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) or Mental Health Counseling required.
• Active LMSW license preferred.

The following are qualifications and requirements of the position:

• Minimum 3 years experience providing mental health counseling.
• Minimum 1 year of experience supervising staff.
• Experience working with justice-involved or justice-impacted individuals.
• Strong written documentation and communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work autonomously
• Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, required
• Experience utilizing EMR systems.

The following additional competencies are viewed as important to success in this position:

• Preferably bi-lingual in Spanish.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent or proficient technical skills to perform tasks related to Microsoft Office, email and case management systems.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with the team.
• Dependability and reliability to arrive and depart timely for scheduled shift.

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

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This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU