Behavioral Health Clinician

Make a bigger difference 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: • If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here.
Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
• We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
• You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.
How you can make a bigger difference: 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.
The Bridges to Care team works directly with individuals with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or physical health conditions.
Working primarily in the community, the clinician uses a recovery-oriented lens and evidenced based approaches to evaluate participant’s strengths and resources, identify barriers to engagement in services, ascertain level of risk and appropriate services to manage risk, assist with managing and keeping appointments, provide psychoeducation and coordinate other aspects of participants’ health and community services to support engagement.
The clinician also provides crisis services to participants remotely or in person in the office or community.
Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Conduct assessments to evaluate participant’s strengths and resources, current functioning, barriers to engagement, level of risk and identify appropriate interventions to manage risk • Provide evidence based interventions to enhance motivation to engage in services and supports, and reduce risky behaviors.
• Provide individual, group, family, collateral sessions and crisis services/interventions • Be actively self-reflective & self-aware of how clinical and administrative practice impacts clients, families, and the communities we serve • Approach work with an anti-racist lens and open to continuously learning and evolving • Liaise with families, schools, criminal justice, and other community agencies to coordinate care • Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
• Open and willing to receive constructive feedback • Maintain documentation according to the standards and time frames 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.
• Hybrid work setting.
Position entails a combination of in person and remote work.
Allocation of time and locations to be developed in collaboration with Senior Program Director and is based on the needs of the programs and clients served.
Travel required between program locations and other Jewish Board sites.
• Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications: • Master’s degree in Social Work, (MSW), LMHC or LCAT with a minimum of one year of relevant experience with similar population.
Work at least 2 evenings.
Work on Saturdays preferred.
Bilingual Spanish preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with evidence based approaches • Fluency in a second language is preferred.
• Experience with telemental health platforms a plus • Proficient with electronic health record; Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook); comfortable and proficient using audio video platforms (i.
e.
, Zoom).
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 Who we are: The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.
We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults.
We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.
More on Equal Opportunity: 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.