Therapist - Family Respite

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

A Therapist delivers comprehensive, evidence-based in-home individual and family therapy as well as group sessions to support families in achieving their goals and ensuring their safety and well-being. Support the diverse families and communities of New York City to keep families together and reduce system involvement.

A Therapist delivers comprehensive, evidence-based in-home individual and family therapy as well as group sessions to support families in achieving their goals and ensuring their safety and well-being. Support the diverse families and communities of New York City to keep families together and reduce system involvement.

Responsibilities: 

• Provide in Home Evidence Based Treatment and Support groups ( office based) to assigned caseload of families to decrease risk and safety factors and ensure families and individuals meet their treatment goals.
• Engage families and other key participants throughout treatment to engage in sessions and meetings and overcome barriers to engagement when they arise to ensure successful goal attainment.
• Document case progression in a timely and accurate manner in all databases to support treatment fidelity, tracking, and planning and ensure compliance with model and stakeholder requirements.
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues, community providers and model/external stakeholders to connect families to resources and support ongoing treatment communication and collaboration for effective treatment planning.
• Continuously assess for families safety, addressing crises, completing safety plans and incident reports in a timely manner as necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of all families served by the program with an emphasis on decreasing system involvement (including after hour/on call support).
• Conduct intake thorough the completion of initial assessments and gather essential consent forms for new cases, ensuring timely case openings, completeness of information and family understanding of services to achieve a smooth start to treatment.
• Participate in group and individual supervision, model consultations, trainings, all staff meetings and community outreach events to stregthen professional development, skill growith, support case progression, group cohesion and community visibility.
• Provide case coverage for peers, as needed, to ensure consistent clinical support within the team. Participate in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual and group coaching and staff meetings to promote clinical development and ensure effective service delivery.

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

• Master's degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling or Psychology.
• At minimum must hold a provisional license (LP-MHC, LP-MFT, LPLCAT, LMSW, LMHC, LMFT, LCAT and/or LCSW). All provisionally licensed clinicians are expected to participate in clinical license supervision
• 2 years of accumulated relevant experience (internships through post-graduate) in child welfare, mental health or substance abuse.
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and connect with a diverse client population to engage them in services throughout treatment.
• Experience with common clinical problems including general knowledge of DSM-5 diagnoses (e.g., child abuse and neglect, aggression, family conflict, depression, anxiety, drug use, traumatic events, truancy) and diverse populations served.
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requirement to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect of any child).
  
• Must be comfortable and able to travel and visit families in their homes and perform safety assessments.