Resiliency Specialist - Social Worker

Resiliency Specialist - Social Worker

Degree Required: Masters of Social Work (MSW) Licensure Required: New Jersey LSW

Languages Required: English

Additional Language Fluency Preferred: Spanish

Location: Newark, New Jersey, hybrid schedule

Type of Employment: Full-Time Exempt

Compensation: $60,000-$65,000 (Depending on years of experience and licensure/certifications) with a comprehensive benefits package. Bilingual Spanish speakers will receive an additional increase to the base salary.

Position Overview

Sanar is seeking a dynamic, adaptable, and compassionate Bilingual Resiliency Social Worker to provide short-term and long-term individual and group trauma healing services for individuals impacted by interpersonal violence including human trafficking, sexual violence and domestic violence through our Wellness Center.

In this role, you will work directly with Spanish-speaking survivors of interpersonal violence, utilizing a client-centered approach and empowerment-focused perspective. We welcome professionals who thrive in a collaborative environment, have experience with adhering to grant requirements, and bring creative ideas for client-centered services and community programming.

Candidates must have an LSW in New Jersey and must have experience working directly with Spanish speaking survivors of violence.

This position will require you to work in-office in Newark a minimum of 2 days per week, maximum of 4 days per week, depending on client needs for in-person services.

Essential Responsibilities

Direct Trauma-Conscious Care

• Provide comprehensive, trauma-conscious, person-centered, empowerment- based individual mental health services for adolescents, and adults impacted by interpersonal violence including human trafficking, sexual violence, domestic violence, and tech-based sexual violence utilizing the Sanar Institute’s Tri- Phasic Healing Model.
• Implement client-centered strategies to support clients’ consistent engagement in therapy.
• Monitor client progress, adjust service plans as necessary, facilitate validated scales and Sanar’s evaluation process, and document all services in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Ensure and facilitate client centered referrals and client linkages to community resources based on client needs.
• Provide effective services to clients utilizing evidence-based clinical theory for trauma healing and support of symptom reduction.
• Facilitate group therapy sessions, including therapeutic groups and psychoeducation groups, in both English and Spanish.
• Facilitate Community Healing workshops, which are community-based skill building events centered around trauma response management tools for the local community.

Program Innovation

• Identify and develop creative and innovative ideas to further grow culturally specific client-centered services
• Create trauma-conscious educational materials and strengthen internal documents and protocols to ensure they are trauma-conscious, client- centered, empowerment-based and culturally specific.

Documentation & Grant Compliance

• Keep detailed person-centered case notes to fulfill all grant-reporting duties, HIPAA regulations and all grant requirements
• Provide services in accordance with Licensure regulations defined by the Board of Social Work Examiners.
• Implement organizational policies and procedures as outlined in Sanar’s Client Services Policies and Procedures.

Other Areas of Responsibility

• Participate in staff meetings, group supervision, and quality assurance activities.
• Assist in any other identified programmatic areas necessary to achieve Sanar’s mission and vision.
• Facilitate and complete Sanar’s pre-screenings for new clients to assess clinical levels of needs and ensure client access to community resources.

Qualifications & Competencies

Required

• Education & Licensure: Master of Social Work (MSW) with an active New Jersey Licensed Social Worker (LSW) credential.
• Clinical Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience providing clinical trauma services (graduate internship experience counts).
• Trauma Expertise: Deep understanding of complex trauma, polyvictimization, and trauma-conscious, client-centered care.
• Adaptability & Alignment: High level of organization, flexibility for a growing non-profit, openness to collaboration and feedback, and alignment with Sanar’s core mission.
• Personal Resilience: Strong emotional maturity, cultural humility and sensitivity, social skills, empathetic, and active personal practice of self-care and wellness.
• Tech Skills: Proficiency with Zoom, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Bonus

• Bilingual Proficiency in Spanish
• Post-graduate certification in a trauma-specific modality.
• 40-hour Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault Crisis Certification.
• Experience adhering to grant requirements and grant reporting.

About the Sanar Institute

Sanar, meaning “to heal” in Spanish, is dedicated to healing individuals and communities impacted by traumatic violence. Sanar is recognized as an international leader in fostering resilience through evidence-based, community led, and lived experience driven approaches. Sanar has two key programs:

1. Sanar’s Wellness Center provides evidence-based, trauma-specific mental health services to individuals with lived experience of human trafficking, sexual violence, domestic violence and technology-based sexual violence. Located in Newark, New Jersey, Sanar’s Wellness Center specializes in culturally specific healing services available in English and Spanish.
2. Sanar’s Thrive Initiative educates multidisciplinary stakeholders and supports trauma-exposed frontline professionals at the local, national, and global level.

At Sanar, we believe healing is a human right and work to ensure all individuals and communities have access to trauma-conscious care.

Sanar offers an excellent benefits package (health, dental, vision and life insurance, including options that are 100% paid for by Sanar), 401k with 4% match from the Sanar, life insurance, professional development reimbursement, parking reimbursement, quarterly wellness days, gym membership, weekly paid time to access mental health and wellness care, in addition to a generous paid time off program with 15 days in the first year of employment and 13 paid holidays. Sanar also offers flexible work scheduling, a supportive work environment that encourages professional and personal development, a commitment to self-care and convenient headquarters located in Downtown Newark, New Jersey near Broad Street Train Station

English is required. Spanish (full fluency - ability to read, speak, write and conduct clinical therapy) is a plus and Spanish speakers receive a skill-based increase to their base salary.