Senior Clinician

Position summary

The Senior Clinician delivers advanced clinical services and provides day-to-day clinical leadership that ensures high-quality, trauma-informed care across the Therapeutic Supervised Visitation and Trauma Recovery programs. This role maintains a focused caseload, offers clinical peer supervision/consultation to staff and serves as Internship Coordinator and Practicum Instructor for MSW interns, advances clinical protocols, and partners with program leadership to align coverage, compliance, and outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver individual/family therapy and therapeutic supervised visitation; complete intakes, assessments, treatment/visit plans, documentation, and discharge summaries.
• Utilize evidence-based approaches (TF-CBT, CBT, DBT skills, MI, psychoeducation, parent coaching).
• Prepare clinical summaries, affidavits, and provide testimony for Family Court.
• Engage caregivers, kin, and collaterals to support safety, permanency, and well-being goals.
• Provide clinical supervision, case consultation, and mentorship to clinicians and MSW interns; co-sign documentation as needed.
• Lead case conferences and model trauma-informed, culturally responsive practice.
• Manage social work internship program, clinical schedules, caseloads, referrals, and coverage planning to ensure continuity of care.
• Serve as Lead Clinician for two evenings and one weekend (Saturday) day.
• Update and implement clinical protocols, forms, and checklists; contribute to audits and chart reviews.
• Collaborate with evaluation/data staff to translate findings into practice improvements.

Qualifications

• • Required: LCSW (or LMSW with supervision toward LCSW and strong relevant experience); 5+ years post-MSW clinical experience with children/families; experience in court-involved and/or child welfare settings.
  • Preferred: SIFI; prior supervision of staff or interns; expertise in TF-CBT/child-parent work/parent coaching; comfort with court testimony. Strong documentation skills, clinical judgment, crisis/risk assessment, and collaboration with multi-system partners.

Core competencies

• • Trauma-informed, culturally responsive practice
  • Clinical supervision & coaching
  • Court-involved family work & visitation therapy
  • Clear, timely documentation; QA mindset
  • Data-informed improvement and outcome orientation
  • Professional communication with legal and public agency partners

Salary: 90K, commensurate with experience. Excellent benefit package, including health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 403B plan with match, life insurance, and generous vacation/personal day leave.

If you meet the qualifications and are interested in applying for this position please send your resume, cover letter and clinical writing sample via email to info@nyspcc.org

The NYSPCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer that promotes diversity in its employment practices. Employment decisions are made without regard to an applicant's actual or perceived race, color, religion, creed, sex/gender (including gender identity and sexual harassment), sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, arrest or conviction record (consistent with the provisions of New York State’s Corrections Law), partnership status, familial status, liability for military service, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking or sex offense, veteran status, genetic pre-disposition or carrier status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law