Bilingual Therapist - MHC

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.

The New York Foundling’s Home of Integrated Behavioral Health proudly assists children 21 and under and their families through providing research-based mental health services to young people struggling with anxiety, depression, traumatic stress, disruptive behaviors and identity-based concerns. We are hiring a Bilingual Clinical Therapist to provide these mental health services based out of our Downtown Brooklyn office.

The Bilingual Clinical Therapist's primary role is to support clients ages 0-21 in meeting their identified goals using evidence-based models of therapeutic intervention. This includes facilitating individual, group and family therapeutic sessions as well as collaborating with other key figures involved in providing treatment.

*UP TO $2,000 SIGN ON INCENTIVE***

***Sign-on Bonus is not permitted for internal candidates***

The Therapist's Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Provide support and evidence-based treatment to an assigned caseload of children and families with individual, group, and/or family therapy to support youth in achieving therapeutic goals and increase access to quality mental health resources.
• Conduct thorough intakes, screenings and assessments, and create individualized treatment plans to support with diagnosing, goal formulation, and case conceptualization.
• Provide direct clinical crisis intervention using methods compatible with evidence based model principles to stabilize youth in crisis. Identify and address safety/risk factors including but not limited to suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviors, homicidal ideation, and substance abuse, including safety planning and incident reports.
• Maintain clear, concise and timely documentation of treatment efforts in progress notes that demonstrate compliance with the agency, modality, local, state, and federal guidelines.
• Engage primary caregiver(s) and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement. Collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure their buy-in and alignment throughout treatment to enhance care coordination.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to enhance care coordination.
• 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.

Language

• Bilingual (Spanish/English)

Education/Licensure

• Master's degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling or related subject area. At minimum must hold a provisional license (LP-MHC, LMSW, LMHC, and/or LCSW). All provisionally licensed clinicians are expected to participate in clinical license supervision.

Experience

• 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.
• Preferred strong understanding and the ability to implement the following: risk and safety assessment, safety planning, trauma assessment, crisis management, incident reporting, treatment planning, and HIPAA policies
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requiring staff to comply with requirements to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect)
• Experience with and willingness to work with culturally diverse population
• Effective verbal and written skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and a need for flexibility
• General computer literacy; including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and Email