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Job title: Social Worker Supervisor: Bushwick Leaders H.S
Company: Good Sheperds Services
Job description: About Us
Good Shepherd Services is a leading multi-service agency with more than 85 programs that serve over 30,000 youth and families each year – and builds on their strengths to help them gain skills for success. At Good Shepherd we respect the dignity and worth of every person and reject intolerance, inequity and injustice in whatever form it may take. Voted one of the top 100 places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York, Good Shepherd Services offers a fantastic work environment, a collaborative team dedicated to fulfilling our mission, and an amazing array of benefits. Join our team and help make a difference!
NOTE: As a NYC contracted agency all positions at Good Shepherd Services fall under the NYC vaccine/testing mandate. All employees, volunteers and interns must show proof of vaccination or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing.
Overview
Reports to: Community School Director
Location: 797 Bushwick Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hours: 35 hours, exempt
Our superstar candidate is:
- Passionate about providing high quality services to adolescents and families in a school setting
- A lifetime learner, continuously developing their clinical skills
- Dedicated to modeling strength-based, trauma-informed practice with staff and families
- Possesses a strength focused approach with families, colleagues, direct reports, and program and agency stakeholders
- Committed to providing high quality supervision with a coaching and growth mindset
- Committed to the Good Shepherd Services mission, vision, and values, possessing and demonstrating cultural humility
Major Duties:
Leadership
- Work closely with Community School Director to enhance all aspects of GSS programming through a mental health lens
- Responsible for oversight of all aspects of daytime clinical program
- Collaborate and partner with DOE Guidance Staff to support BLHS school culture and administrative practices
- As needed, facilitate professional development for DOE staff
- Provide leadership in weekly DOE Guidance Meetings and serve as point person for all of GSS’ clinical work
- Build relationships and actively collaborate with community stakeholders
- Recruit, hire, onboard, and supervise full-time social worker and four Master’s level social work interns
- As needed, facilitate trainings for GSS staff at BLHS around adolescent mental health
- Actively collaborate to connect participants to other GSS programs and services as needed and appropriate.
- Handle case-related crises with professionalism, urgency, and care, including incidents involving reports to the State Central Registry and communicate with DOE staff throughout the process
Program Implementation & Direct Practice
- Facilitate weekly group supervision for mental health team to promote professional growth and create an environment that fosters peer support and collaboration
- Provide weekly supervision to each social work intern and the full-time social worker to support each team member in striving for excellence in their clinical and administrative work
- As needed, maintain a small caseload of students for individual and group counseling
- Maintain clear and concise documentation of all services provided and oversee all data entry into Salesforce database.
- Provide crisis intervention
Compliance, Documentation & Data Management
- Monitor and review all progress note entry into Salesforce database within a timely fashion
- Ensure that adequate safety and risk assessments are conducted during crisis situations that arise
- Complete all documentation for social work interns including educational plans, mid-year and final evaluations
- Collaborate with Program Director on annual Community School Forum and provide data of GSS’ clinical work and services provided
Qualifications:
- LCSW preferred, LMSW required; Eligibility or willingness to take Seminar in Field Instruction course
- Two years of supervisory experience in a clinical setting preferred
- Bilingual – English/Spanish preferred
- Must have strong organizational, administrative, interpersonal, and clinical skills
- Must have a commitment to work from a strength based, trauma-informed & youth and family development perspective
Additional Information
Good Shepherd Services is an equal opportunity employer that is proudly committed to becoming an anti-racist and multicultural organization that . We welcome prospective employees from diverse backgrounds, for administrative support and direct service and leadership roles, who will join us on that journey, uphold our and , and believe in our mission. Additionally, we aim to have a racially representative leadership and workforce that is reflective of the communities we work in partnership with.
Good Shepherd Services is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, participants, volunteers, subcontractors, and vendors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of our activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and termination of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services.
Expected salary: $60000 per year
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Job date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:32:12 GMT
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