Job Description
Location: Mt. Vernon, NY (On-Site)
Hours: Full-Time/Days 9 am to 5 pm
Salary: $62,400 (permit) $65,000 (LMSW/LMFT/LMHC/LCSW)
What The Guidance Center of Westchester offers:
- Supervision hours towards licensure
- Competitive Salaries
- 20 days PTO plus 12 paid agency holidays
- Offer in-house Continuing Education Unit credits
- 85% of license/certification exam or renewal fee reimbursement
- Help with loan forgiveness-Some of our sites are NHCS approved
- Comprehensive medical with no deductible, dental (free vision) and supplemental benefit package
- 403b Match with 100% vesting (after two years)
- Employee discount program (get discounts for movies, hotels, cars, car rentals, broadway shows and much more)
- Health, wellness and self-care events across the network
- Free NYS Defensive Driving
Position Summary: We are looking for a clinician to support our participants in our dual-licensed OMH/OASAS MAT program. Integrated MAT Opioid Treatment services are provided by an interdisciplinary team responsible for: comprehensive diagnostic assessments; participant-centered care planning; health assessments and physicals; clinical excellence and evidence-based interventions; individual, family and group therapy; psychiatric evaluations; medication management; MAT treatment (Methadone and Suboxone); linkages to additional services and care; and successful achievement of participant-determined outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for a caseload of approximately 60 participants.
- Individual therapy, family/couples therapy and group therapy.
- Timely, accurate, and complete documentation in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to ensure compliance.
- Attends Supervision as scheduled with the Program Director
- Attends weekly IDT meetings.
- Preforms other duties as needed to ensure the success of the program.
Qualifications:
- New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LMSW, LCSW or LMHC) required.
- Understanding and experience with OASAS documentation requirements, including intake and assessment, medical necessity, treatment planning and clinical interventions from the start of the treatment through termination.
- At least 2-3 years experience within in the Substance use field preferably in Methadone Maintenance; other addictions, complex trauma and psychosocial stressors of poverty, abuse, abandonment, grief/loss, foster care, low/no literacy, and criminal justice involvement.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint).
- Working familiarity with EMR s.
- Proficient with computers and able to inspire virtual clinical care and creatively engage program participants in their care
- Positive attitude and demeanor with an ability to engage individuals of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and needs.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with regulatory agencies, personnel, community stakeholders, participants /families.
Qualifications: -New York State LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT and LP
-Experience working with justice involved individuals preferred -Positive attitude and demeanor with an ability to engage individuals of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and needs. EEO, AAE, M/F/D/V
