Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Compensation Range: $75,000 - $85,000 yearly commensurate with experience 

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview:

We are currently seeking a licensed behavioral health clinician with demonstrated experience conducting comprehensive psychiatric and psychosocial evaluations for individuals with mental health needs. In this role, the clinician will be responsible for assessing, documenting, and supporting housing application determinations through thorough clinical evaluations and recommendations. The ideal candidate will possess extensive clinical assessment experience, strong documentation skills, and a proven ability to work with individuals impacted by mental health conditions, housing insecurity, and complex psychosocial challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations for housing applicants, focusing on areas such as mental status, psychiatric diagnoses, treatment and histories, medication, and clinical recommendations.
• Provide high-quality behavioral health assessments through telehealth platform.
• Actively collaborate in a virtual setting, delivering evidence-based interventions to assess the unique needs of clients seeking housing support.
• Demonstrate adaptability to virtual platforms, ensuring effective communication and maintaining a commitment to delivering exceptional telehealth behavioral health services.
• Emphasize continuous professional development within the telehealth landscape.
• Ensure secure and encrypted channels for all client interactions, always maintaining client’s privacy and confidentiality.
• Evaluate the risk level of each client and, when necessary, collaboratively develop and implement safety planning/monitoring.
• Engage in virtual case conferences for the ongoing coordination of clients' care and housing application process.
• Generate timely, accurate clinical recommendations that are congruent with the clients’ diagnosis and consistent with the scope of the housing application.
• Generate timely, accurate encounter notes with diagnoses and appropriate CPT Codes.
• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to client’s treatment.
• Participate in one-hour weekly supervision sessions.
• Stay accessible for ongoing training and certifications as per requirements.
• Perform other duties in support of the agency's quality assurance process

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Social Work required.
• New York State LMSW or LCSW licensure required.
• Candidates should have experience conducting comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, psychosocial assessments, and preparing clinical documentation to support housing applications and related services.
• Proven experience in telehealth psychotherapy, and various methods of treatment including evidence-based practices.
• Previous experience with housing application process, including the 2010e application for supportive housing is a plus.

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU