Bilingual Therapist - School Based Mental Health

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.

The School Based Mental Health Program (SBMH) partners with schools around NYC to increase accessibility of mental health services to families by bringing high quality, evidence-based mental health treatment inside schools where any child enrolled in public schools can reach them. We also aim to build school’s capacity to meet the social and emotional needs of their students by empowering schools to think and operate proactively and relationally through ongoing collaboration, school faculty consultations, and delivering workshops to the school community.

Responsibilities

*UP TO $2,000 SIGN ON INCENTIVE***

***Sign-on Bonus is not permitted for internal candidates***

• Provide school-based individual, group, and/or family services to assigned caseload and/or provide linkage to community providers to increase community access to quality mental health resources.
• Conduct thorough intakes, screenings and assessments, and create individualized treatment plans to support with diagnosing, goal formulation, and case conceptualization.
• Provide direct clinical crisis intervention treatment using methods compatible with evidence based model principles and practices. Identify and address safety/risk factors including but not limited to suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviors, homicidal ideation, and substance abuse, including safety planning and incident reports.
• Maintain clear, concise and timely documentation of treatment efforts in progress notes that demonstrate compliance with the agency, modality, local, state, and federal guidelines.
• Engage primary caregiver(s) and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement. Collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure their buy-in and alignment throughout treatment.
• Provide psychoeducational workshops to community members including school staff, caregivers, and students to support with increasing the schools' capacity to respond to the mental health needs of students.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with school community members including administration, guidances counselors, school social workers, and parent coordinators.
• Participate in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual and group coaching and staff meetings to promote clinical development and ensure effective service delivery.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling or related subject area. At minimum must hold a provisional license (LP-MHC, LMSW, LMHC, and/or LCSW). All provisionally licensed clinicians are expected to participate in clinical license supervision
• Fluent in English/Spanish required
• 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.
• Flexibility
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requiring staff to comply with requirements to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect)

Education Required

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

Salary Range:

$65,662.50 /year + $3,500 - Bilingual Additive (as applicable) + $1,000 – Provisional Licensure Additive (as applicable) + $4,000 – Full Licensure Additive (as applicable)