Clinician

Program: HELP Unity | 23 W 106th Street, New York, NY 10025

What You’ll Do

As a Clinician for one of our women's shelters, you’ll provide mental health counseling services to residents, including long and short-term counseling, crisis intervention, and facilitating counseling groups and workshops. You’ll also respond to mental health crises at the facility, as well as serve as a consultant to the Team on mental health issues.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Conducting intake assessments for new residents and collaborating with others at the site, as well as other HELP USA programs, to provide appropriate clinical services and facilitate communication.
• Advocating for and assisting clients in navigating the service delivery system, providing information and referral services as needed, and serving as a liaison with various social service agencies, including mental health clinics and hospitals, to ensure receipt of appropriate clinical and related services.
• Participating in team meetings, individual supervisory meetings, and case conferences, and documenting all work with and on behalf of clients.

You’re a great fit for this role if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in social work or Mental Health Counseling required; Master's degree in social work preferred.
• Experience facilitating support groups and workshops.

It would be helpful (but not required) if you have:

• CASAC certification.
• Bilingual fluency (English/Spanish).