Licensed Master Social Worker

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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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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. 

 
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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 

Compensation Range: $68,000 - $70,000 commensurate with experience.
 

Overview: 

The LMSW will serve an active role in providing onsite clinical support and therapeutic services to residents within the MOCJ Hotel. Functioning as part of an interdisciplinary team of medical, behavioral health, and case management professionals, the LMSW will be in regular communication with team members to ensure that residents' behavioral health needs are met. The LMSW will be responsible for providing and implementing evidence-based, outcome-based interventions, engaging in crisis management, and addressing acute mental health/substance use needs of clients engaged in treatment. This position reports to the Clinical Supervisor of the program. The LMSW may also perform other duties in support of the agency's quality assurance process.

Responsibilities: 

• Utilize psychoeducation and evidence based approaches (i.e. problem solving treatment, behavior activation treatment, and motivational interviewing) in providing patient education, and/or medication adherence to patients treated and/or identified by primary care provider as being in need of psychotropics and/or other forms of mental health treatment.
• Manage the communication with and between team members to support treatment decision making and/or facilitate changes in treatment recommendations to support referrals of clients to higher levels of care and/or other mental health services, as appropriate.
• Participate in case conferences to advance the ongoing coordination of client care.
• Conduct and/or promote diagnostic consultations between the PCP and consulting psychiatric provider on difficult to manage cases or cases where patients are not making progress.
• Provide "self-management" support options to clients who decline coordinated care services but are willing to engage in supported self-management goals.
• Generate timely, accurate, and content substantive progress notes with treatment goals and interventions that are congruent with the clients' diagnoses and consistent with the scope of practice.
• Partake in one-hour weekly supervision.
• Participate in ongoing training and/or certifications as per requirements.

• Masters degree in Social Work with LMSW credential in New York State.
• Experience in the provision of psychotherapy utilizing various methods of treatment, including evidence-based practice.