Social Worker
The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

WORKING WITH US

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health 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. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of others.

Similarly, we support our employees through benefits like, professional development opportunities and paid supervision. Some of our other benefits include:

• Positions offer competitive compensation
• Continuing CME/CEU support through our tuition assistance program
• 15 agency holidays and 15 sick days in addition to generous vacation days
• Health/dental/vision plans that are subsidized up to 80%
• Access to 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Unlimited employee referral bonus opportunities
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) through our many company initiatives, including employee resource groups (ERGs) like Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

ABOUT THE JOB:

The Healthy Aging Program utilizes a focused and strategic approach to provide services for adult residents ages 60+ living in Jewish board supportive housing programs to help them age well and safely in their home for as long as possible. Our goal is to incorporate an aging lens into our supportive housing programs, infusing senior services into our work enabling older residents to continue living in their homes as they age through staff training, education, community-based and in-home services partnership development. Staff use an approach based on the "Stages of Change" with our residents to work with them at their pace and comfort level towards creating the specific changes they need to help them age in place.

The three key program elements to meet our residents' needs through this Healthy Aging program model are:

1. Coordination, linkage and support services for aging residents

2. Training of supportive housing staff in geriatric care, services, and benefits and related topics

3. Community-based care collaborations and in-home care provider relationships

The Social worker is responsible for superior practice and/or the assumption of additional or special responsibilities. This position is available only through promotion from within the staff. Perform casework for clients. Evaluate case data. Perform treatment processes. Analyze and evaluate course results of treatment processes.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Obtain, analyze and evaluate case data.
• Carry out treatment processes.
• Analyze and evaluate course and results of treatment processes.
• Record material and case summaries.
• Utilize Agency resources as well as community resources to perform related tasks.

TO QUALIFY

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented professionals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

You should have:

• Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) and LMSW/ LCSW certification.

• Two years of experience in a relevant field. Prior experience with supportive housing population preferred.
• Prior experience in geriatric services and supportive housing population preferred.

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.

Other details

• Job Family : Clinical Staff [300s]
• Pay Type : Salary
• Employment Indicator : 8833 - Hospital - Professional Employees
• Min Hiring Rate : $65,000.00
• Max Hiring Rate : $68,000.00

 

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