Volunteer LCSW Field Supervisor for MSW Student Interns (to support abuse survivors, 501(c)3)

Volunteer LCSW Field Supervisor for MSW Student Interns

Organization Overview

Mommy’s Heart, Inc. (EIN #87-4833078) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides free legal, mental health, advocacy, and economic-empowerment services to parents and children who have escaped domestic abuse and continue to face coercive control and retaliatory litigation through the family court system.

Systemic failures and unequal access to justice often enable abusers to weaponize the courts against survivors, contributing to an estimated 58,000 children each year being court-ordered into unsupervised contact, including sole-custody arrangements, with an abusive parent. Every six days, a child dies due to family court failures.

Mommy’s Heart works to protect the fundamental rights of fit parents and ensure that no parent fears losing a child for reporting abuse. Through legal and policy advocacy, education, mental health support, and programs promoting economic self-sufficiency, we help survivors access justice, heal, rebuild their lives, and achieve long-term safety and independence.

Position Title

Volunteer LCSW Field Supervisor for MSW Student Interns

Duration

1 year with the possibility of renewal based on the academic placement schedule, supervisor availability, and organizational needs.

Location

Remote, hybrid, or in-office, based on availability, participating school requirements, and organizational needs.

Volunteer Description

Are you an experienced Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a passion for mentorship, social justice, trauma-informed practice, and preparing the next generation of social workers? Join Mommy’s Heart as a Volunteer LCSW Field Supervisor and help guide MSW students completing their practicum in a meaningful, interdisciplinary nonprofit setting.

The LCSW Field Supervisor will provide the educational supervision required by the student’s MSW program and help connect classroom learning with ethical, competent, and trauma-informed social work practice. The role includes at least one hour of individual supervision each week, review of process recordings and other student documentation, assistance with learning plans, ongoing evaluation of student competencies, and coordination with the student’s school and Mommy’s Heart leadership.

The supervisor will support students working with survivors of domestic abuse and coercive control while helping them develop skills in assessment, client engagement, documentation, advocacy, referrals, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional boundaries, and culturally responsive practice.

Responsibilities

As a Volunteer LCSW Field Supervisor for MSW Student Interns at Mommy’s Heart, responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Provide at least one hour of regularly scheduled individual supervision each week, or the amount required by the student’s academic program.
• Establish a consistent supervisory schedule and maintain appropriate records of supervision.
• Help each student develop and follow an educational learning agreement or practicum plan aligned with the school’s required social work competencies.
• Review process recordings, case reflections, assessments, intake summaries, Case Notes, referral documentation, and other student work required by the academic program.
• Provide timely, constructive, and developmentally appropriate feedback regarding the student’s strengths, challenges, professional judgment, and progress.
• Help students integrate social work theory, research, classroom learning, ethical principles, and evidence-informed practices into their fieldwork.
• Support the development of skills in client engagement, biopsychosocial assessment, trauma-informed interviewing, service planning, safety planning, advocacy, referrals, documentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Guide students in applying trauma-informed, survivor-centered, strengths-based, culturally responsive, and client-centered approaches.
• Support students in understanding the effects of domestic abuse, coercive control, trauma, family-court involvement, economic abuse, housing instability, and other barriers affecting survivors and their children.
• Reinforce appropriate professional boundaries, confidentiality, informed consent, privacy, mandated-reporting responsibilities, documentation standards, and ethical decision-making.
• Help students recognize and appropriately respond to safety concerns, crises, ethical dilemmas, countertransference, secondary traumatic stress, and situations requiring consultation or escalation.
• Ensure that students work within their education, training, competence, role, and authorized scope of practice.
• Review student assignments and caseloads to ensure that responsibilities are appropriate for the student’s level of education, experience, and demonstrated competence.
• Help orient students to the mission, policies, procedures, documentation requirements, services, and interdisciplinary structure of Mommy’s Heart.
• Collaborate with Mommy’s Heart leadership, staff, volunteers, and interdisciplinary team members to support a coordinated and meaningful practicum experience.
• Communicate with the student’s faculty liaison, field-education department, or academic program as required.
• Participate in placement meetings, faculty-liaison conferences, and problem-solving discussions concerning the student’s performance or educational needs.
• Complete and submit midterm evaluations, final evaluations, timesheet approvals, competency assessments, learning agreements, and other required field-education forms by established deadlines.
• Monitor the student’s attendance, practicum hours, professionalism, documentation, responsiveness, and progress toward learning objectives.
• Address performance concerns promptly and collaborate with the student, Mommy’s Heart leadership, and the academic program on an improvement plan when necessary.
• Provide a safe, supportive, ethical, and educational supervision environment that encourages reflection, accountability, professional growth, and responsible use of self.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality regarding clients, students, supervision discussions, and organizational matters.

Qualifications

We are seeking someone who has:

• A Master of Social Work degree from a CSWE-accredited program or equivalent recognized institution.
• An active LCSW license in good standing in the applicable jurisdiction.
• At least two years of post-MSW professional social work experience, or any greater amount required by the participating academic institution.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, teaching, or training MSW students or early-career social workers.
• Familiarity with MSW field-education requirements, competency-based evaluation, process recordings, and educational supervision.
• Seminar in Field Instruction certification or training, or willingness to complete it, if required by the participating school.
• Strong knowledge of trauma-informed care, domestic violence, coercive control, crisis response, client advocacy, and work with vulnerable populations.
• Understanding of social work ethics, confidentiality, informed consent, mandated reporting, professional boundaries, cultural humility, and risk-management practices.
• Ability to provide clear, constructive, and supportive feedback while holding students accountable to professional and academic standards.
• Strong communication, organization, clinical judgment, and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with university faculty, organizational leadership, interdisciplinary professionals, volunteers, and students.
• Commitment to Mommy’s Heart’s mission, values, and survivor-centered approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience serving as an MSW field instructor or practicum supervisor.
• Experience supervising students in remote or hybrid placements.
• Experience working with survivors of domestic violence, coercive control, family-court litigation, trauma, housing instability, or related concerns.
• Familiarity with motivational interviewing, CBT, DBT-informed skills, grief support, crisis intervention, safety planning, case management, or community-resource navigation.
• Experience working within nonprofit, legal-services, advocacy, mental health, or interdisciplinary settings.

Benefits

• Opportunity to mentor and prepare future social workers.
• Meaningful involvement in a mission-driven nonprofit serving survivors and their children.
• Flexible volunteer schedule consistent with the student’s academic requirements.
• Opportunity to contribute to social justice, advocacy, trauma-informed practice, and interdisciplinary education.
• Collaboration with a passionate and committed team of legal, mental health, social-service, advocacy, and career-building professionals and volunteers.
• Opportunity to help shape and strengthen Mommy’s Heart’s MSW practicum program.

How to Apply

If you are interested in volunteering with Mommy’s Heart as an LCSW Field Supervisor for MSW student interns, please submit your résumé, a brief cover letter, and a summary of your supervisory and clinical experience to mommysheartinc@gmail.com.