DGMH Therapist

Title: DGMH Therapist

Department: Center for Resiliency and Wellness

Job Location: 623 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

Availability: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Requirements: LCSW, LMHC

Benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Flexible Spending Account, 403b Retirement Plan, Worker’s Compensation, Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life Insurance, Holidays, Personal Time Off, Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, Competitive Remuneration

About Greenwich House

Founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help New York’s increasing immigrant population adjust to life in a new country, Greenwich House today offers a variety of programs and approaches that continue to provide thousands of New Yorkers with health and wellness support, education, personal enrichment, skills building and cultural experiences.

Position Summary

The Greenwich House Center for Resiliency and Wellness is seeking a DGMH Therapist who will be responsible for providing embedded, on-site behavioral health services to adults 60+ at DFTA Older Adult Centers. Services provided include: structured engagement groups, unstructured individual engagement; short & long-term behavioral health services integrating the creative arts. The provider should have awareness of: life stages and aging process; trauma informed care, Domestic/Intimate Partner/Gender Violence issues, as well as LGBTQ/gender nonconforming or questioning communities and communities of color, using individual, family, group and evidence-based modalities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide long and short-term psychotherapy to clients and collateral family members where appropriate (including crisis intervention) in person or Telehealth in compliance with NYS OMH criteria.
• Facilitate time limited and ongoing group therapies as well as structured engagement presentations.
• Utilize concurrent clinical documentation in electronic health record (eCR) and data entry (Peer Place) in compliance with NYS Office of Mental Health; Dept for the Aging and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requirements to include: periodic assessment scales; progress notes; treatment plans and treatment plan reviews; incident reports and encounter forms.
• Alert immediately the Director of reportable incidents and clients at risk behaviors.
• Perform other tasks and special projects as assigned by the direct supervisor.
• Interact with all levels of personnel within the organization.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Case Manager and Peer Advocate on shared clients.
• Refer clients to appropriate community resources for case management issues/advocacy, e.g. legal, housing, health, education, vocational, entitlements.
• Maintain working relationships as needed with hospitals, nursing homes, entitlement sources, legal advocates and other social service agencies.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Participate in supervision and interdisciplinary staff meetings.
• Meet program productivity benchmarks for billable services as determined by agency standards.
• Participate in ongoing professional training for continuing education units and other professional development as mandated by the agency or recommended by supervisor.

Qualifications

• LCSW/LMHC (New York State Department of Education) with minimum two or three years clinical social work experience.
• Strong engagement skills and knowledge of age related, life stages, mental health conditions and harm reduction recovery and openness to integrate creative arts.
• Experience with adult mental health 60+, knowledge of the aging process, life transitions and awareness of Domestic/Intimate Partner/Gender based Violence issues, as well as, GLBTQ/gender non-binary or questioning communities, and, communities of color.
• Familiarity with a range of therapeutic interventions: trauma informed care, CBT, DBT, MI, ACT, creative arts and psychodynamic approaches to treatment.
• Alignment with agency standard of ethics, conduct and organization policies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to accomplish client goals and adapt to changing program environment.
• Ability to prioritize and implement a course of action for handling multiple tasks.
• Bilingual skills in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, or Korean a plus, but, not required.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, a successful candidate must be able to perform satisfactorily each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified candidates with disabilities to perform these duties.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Greenwich House is strongly committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all individuals. All employment decisions and administration of all personnel policies are without regard to an applicant or employee’s actual or perceived race, religion, sex, age, national origin, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation or affectation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), predisposing genetic characteristic, genetic information, pregnancy, ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, alienage, military or veteran’s status, physical or mental disability, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking offense and sex offenses, marital status, partnership status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. For more information regarding Greenwich House and our EEO statement, please visit https://www.greenwichhouse.org/about/