Therapist

TITLE: Therapist

DEPARTMENT: The Center for Resiliency and Wellness

REPORTS TO: Clinical Director of Center for Resiliency and Wellness

JOB LOCATION: 623 Broadway, 2^nd fl, New York, N.Y. 10012 

FLSA: Exempt

JOB STATUS: Full Time

AVAILABILITY: Immediate           

POSITIONS SUPERVISED: None

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 1

DATE PREPARED/REVISED: 3-19-2024

DEPARTMENT HEAD APPROVAL: Caitlyn Romano LMHC

About Greenwich House: Founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help New York’s increasing immigrant population adjust to life in a new country, Greenwich House today offers a variety of programs and approaches that continue to provide thousands of New Yorkers with health and wellness supports, education and personal enrichment, and skills building and cultural experiences.

Position Summary

• Full time (35hrs) psychotherapist staff position, Mondays through Fridays
• 11am to 7pm, in person, providing short and long term mental-health services to
• children, youth, young adults and adults with awareness of trauma informed.
• care, Domestic /Intimate Partner/Gender Violence issues, as well as,
• GLBTQ/gender nonconforming or questioning communities & Communities of
• color, using individual, family and group and evidence-based modalities.

Qualifications

• LMHC, LMSW, LCSW credential
• Strong engagement skills and knowledge of mental health conditions and harm reduction recovery.
• Experience with children, youth, young adults and adults with awareness of Domestic/Intimate
• Partner/Gender based Violence issues, as well as, GLBTQ+/gender nonbinary or questioning communities, and communities of color.
• Familiarity with a range of therapeutic interventions: play therapy, family therapy, trauma informed care, CBT, DBT, ACT and psychodynamic approaches to treatment.
• Alignment with agency standard of ethics, conduct and organization policies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to accomplish client goals and adapt to changing program environment.
• Ability to prioritize and implement a course of action for handling multiple tasks.
• Language skills a plus e.g. Bilingual Spanish/English.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, a successful candidate must be able to perform satisfactorily each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified candidates with disabilities to perform these duties.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide long and short-term psychotherapy to children, youth, young adult and adult clients, as well as collateral family members where appropriate (including crisis intervention) in person onsite or Telehealth as appropriate based on NYS OMH criteria.
• Facilitate time limited and ongoing group therapies.
• Utilize concurrent documentation in electronic.
• health record (eCR) in compliance with NYS-OMH regulations and N.Y.C.  Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requirements to include: periodic assessment scales; progress notes; treatment plan and treatment plan reviews, incident reports, and encounter forms.
• Alert immediately the Director and Assistant
• Clinical Director of reportable incidents and clients at risk behaviors.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by direct supervisor.
• Interact with all levels of personnel within the organization.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Case Manager & Peer Advocate on shared clients.
• Refer clients to appropriate community resources for case management issues/advocacy, e.g. legal, housing, health, education, vocational, entitlements.
• Maintain working relationships as needed with hospitals, nursing homes, entitlement sources, legal advocates and other social service agencies.

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Participate in supervision and interdisciplinary staff meetings.
• Meet program productivity benchmarks for billable services as determined by agency standards.
• Participate in ongoing professional training for continuing education units and other professional development as mandated by the agency or recommended by supervisor.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by direct supervisor.
• Interact with all levels of personnel within the organization.

Vaccination Requirement: As of October 29, 2021, we are requiring all Greenwich House and Barrow Street Nursery School new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the start date.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Greenwich House is strongly committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all individuals. All employment decisions and administration of all personnel policies are without regard to an applicant or employee’s actual or perceived race, religion, sex, age, national origin, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation or affectation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), predisposing genetic characteristic, genetic information, pregnancy, ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, alienage, military or veteran’s status, physical or mental disability, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking offense and sex offenses, marital status, partnership status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.