Therapist

Department: Greenwich House, Center for Healing, Opioid Treatment 

Reports to: Program Director  

Job Location: 190 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012         

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Job Status: Full Time

Positions Supervised: None

Date Prepared/Revised: 06-13-2024

Program Directors Approval: Caitlyn Romano LMHC

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 supports, education and personal enrichment, and skills building and cultural experiences.

Position Summary

Provide flexible, consumer-oriented therapy to assist patients in achieving self-sufficiency and positive treatment outcomes by combining traditional psychotherapy with a practical, problem-solving approach that creates a dynamic and efficient path for change and problem resolution.

Qualifications

• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Mental Health Counselor plus one (1) year of clinical experience.
• Effective written, verbal, organizational, interpersonal skills and computer literacy required plus knowledge of evidenced-based practices. 
• Experience in individual and strong group counseling experience.
• Must be able to maintain the normal standard of ethics, conduct and organization policies in job related activities.
• Willing to modify plans and behavior when necessary to meet a goal.
• Must achieve goals beyond minimal levels of performance.
• Must be able to establish priorities and a course of action for handling multiple tasks.
• Ability to satisfactorily perform other duties upon request by the Program Director.
• Knowledge and ability to provide brief techniques, such as crisis intervention and solution-focused approaches.
• Ability to provide long-term approaches when treating chronic mental health disorders or disabilities.
• Demonstrate a concern for the short-term and long-term well-being of individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations.
• Knowledge of and experience working with substance abuse, mental health, compromised health, HIV/Hepatitis C  issues, criminal justice, child welfare, and HRA protocols/reporting requirements.
• Familiarity with OASAS and other regulatory agency regulations and written documentation requirements, DSM and ICD codes.
• Experience in individual and strong group counseling.
• Must be able to maintain ethics standard for Greenwich House, OASAS, and NYS Education Department for License Masters Social Workers/License Mental Health Counselors 
• Willing to modify plans and behavior when necessary to meet a goal.
• Must achieve goals beyond minimal levels of performance.
• Must be able to establish priorities and a course of action for handling multiple tasks.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to patients in achieving self-sufficiency and positive treatment outcomes. 
• Help patients identify goals and solutions to problems causing emotional problems and the use of psychotherapy to address mental disorders and substance abuse.
• Assist patients to develop skills and strategies to address their issues.
• Assess patient’s needs and develop a treatment plan with the patient that assists in working towards achieving the patient’s goals. 
• Demonstrate a concern for the short-term and long-term well-being of individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations.
• Supervise counseling interns and graduates of counseling programs to develop skills necessary to practice as a Mental Health Counselor.
• Engage in program development, advocacy, research, and program evaluation to improve mental health treatment and prevention services.
• Maintain caseload, provide individual and group treatment utilizing evidence-based practice focused on daily living skills, harm reduction, anger management, parenting skills, assertiveness, health issues, mental health issues, pre-vocational and employment issues. 
• Complete all required paperwork in a timely manner.
• Develop and update client treatment plans and long term goals.        
• Be prepared for and attend all supervision sessions and team meetings.
• Attend all agency mandated training and other learning opportunities as recommended by the supervisor.
• Use time efficiently and personally well organized.
• Keep Supervisor and Director informed of progress and problems.
• Perform other tasks and special projects as assigned by the direct supervisor.
• Assist intake coordinator in transfers and new admissions.

Organizational Relationships

Facilitate ongoing communication and engagement with all levels of agency personnel and maintain external relationships within the social service community to the benefit of Greenwich House and their clients.

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.

Vaccination Requirement

As of October 29, 2021, we are requiring all Greenwich House and Barrow Street Nursery School new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the start date.