Make a bigger difference

Behavioral Health Clinician

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

The Jewish Board's Loss and Bereavement (L&B) Program for Children and adolescents provides compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally competent, recovery-oriented approach to help individuals and their families to support bereaved children, teens, and their caregivers to normalize, validate and process their grief and to strengthen resiliency through grief groups and short-term individual and family interventions within the community and via telehealth. Our program provides short-term interventions and resources to help stabilize systems after a critical loss. We also provide resources and support to the community through our Information and Referral line. In addition, we provide training and education to clinicians, parents, and educators on grief and bereavement through the Jewish Board's Martha K. Selig Training Institute. Our program work closely with schools and other community partners to address grief and bereavement in their communities while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.

The L&B Therapist, under the direction of the L&B Program Director and Administrative Supervisor, is responsible for providing L&B information, outreach, short-term individual and group intervention, trauma & loss crisis consultation and L&B training. Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct outreach with community mental health, social service and school programs to identify children with loss & bereavement issues
• Works with team to initiate group start up, including work with site leader, potential group facilitators, and/or other relevant staff.
• Provide assessments, family and school psychoeducation
• Conduct on-site L&B groups with children and teens aged 5-18 primarily in schools throughout NYC, which involves travel to these sites.
• Conduct L&B groups via zoom for clients not connected to a specific school
• Provide short-term sessions to clients and families awaiting group placement
• Conduct groups and workshops with parents, caregivers, and school staff
• Timely documentation of all clinical work
• Provides on-site training to adults connected to the system of care for bereaved and traumatized youth
• Crisis Consultation - provides short term interventions to help stabilize systems after acute loss
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

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

• Master's Degree in Social Work or related field including Creative Arts Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, or Marriage and Family Therapists (with related licensure or permit)
• At least 1 year of experience with youth providing clinical services
• Bilingual candidates strongly encouraged to apply

If you join us, you'll have these great benefits:

• Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social 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. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

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 $60,000.00

Minimum Salary: 16 Maximum Salary: 60000.00 Salary Unit: Yearly