Fee-For-Service Therapist (Fully Remote): Positions Available in all boroughs!
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:
PURPOSE:
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. Our staff use a culturally affirming, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
This position provides clinical services as part of an OMH licensed outpatient mental health clinic/ CCBHC location, interventions include, but are not limited to, evaluations; individual, group and/or family therapy; case management; and crisis interventions. Must live within the United States and have a valid NYS State Licensed.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (List the functions that are essential to achieve the goals):
- Conduct comprehensive evaluations/ intakes as required.
- Develop treatment plans in collaboration with clients to identify treatment needs and interventions and review/revise treatment plans to reflect client’s treatment progress and changing problems/goals.
- Provide individual, group, family, and crisis interventions.
- Liaise with families, schools, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care.
- Provide linkages as driven by screenings and client identified needs to embedded care coordination, SUD services, nursing, psychiatric and medical services.
- Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
- Maintain all documentation according to the standards and time limits established by the Jewish Board, regulatory agencies, and/or funding sources.
- Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards as established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures.
- Must provide a minimum of 30 hours per week of availability to the Jewish Board
- Must work a minimum of three days a week until 8pm or two days a week until 8pm and a weekend day.
- 30 hours is inclusive of time for clinical service provision, staff meetings, supervision and required training.
- Schedule is centrally managed.
- Paid required participation agency training in evidenced based models (such as CBT/MI) applicable to continuing education credit requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.
CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
- Able to engage with clients and explore clients' emotions, life events and the resources they can use to overcome any of the challenges they may face.
- Skilled in clinical risk assessment and providing trauma informed, culturally sensitive therapeutic interventions.
- Effective time management skills to ensure timely client care and subsequent clinical documentation.
- Understands group dynamics and can effectively lead clinical group sessions.
- Uses clinical assessments to drive referrals.
EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED (List all that is required to achieve this position):
- Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program and a New York State License in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC); Creative Arts Therapy (LCAT), or social work (LMSW/LCSW) required.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE (List what the desire to reach goals):
- A minimum of one year of relevant clinical experience is required.
- Experience treating children or adolescents is preferred.
- Fluency in a second language is preferred.
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):
- Experience documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office.
- Experience with tele-mental health platforms a plus.
VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:
- The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT
- Remote work, home office.
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
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.