Licensed Clinical Social Worker

New York Medical College (NYMC) seeks a part-time Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) to provide direct care to students for our student population of medical, dental, and graduate students. Our team plays an integral role in student success and is focused on providing mental health and wellness support to students in all graduate programs of the College. Under the supervision of the Associate Vice Chancellor, the LCSW is responsible for a variety of direct clinical responsibilities, including, but not limited to, conducting assessments and triage; time-limited psychotherapy and supportive counseling; identification of, and liaison with community resources and social supports, group counseling, and care for high-risk individuals. This role also includes establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with a broad range of campus constituencies including students, administration, faculty, and staff.

The LCSW will provide 17.5 hours of work per week across the following areas:

Clinical Hours & Counseling (75%)

• →Deliver short term individual therapy and conduct a needs-based assessment, including triage, clinical consultation, coordinating treatment with other professionals, and providing community referrals when crisis intervention as needed or requested, minimum of 4 clients per workday, maintain case load and terminate as clinically indicated to prioritize urgent student needs.
• →Facilitate support group(s) as needed.
• →Provide culturally sensitive clinical services that address the unique needs of students from diverse backgrounds, and students with intersecting identities.
• →Maintain strict adherence to FERPA and HIPAA guidelines and confidentiality practices.
• →Participate in Wellness programming and activities.
• →Other duties as assigned by the Associate Vice Chancellor and/or Associate Director.

Administration (10%)

• →Produce timely, empirically supported, and confidential record keeping in strict accordance with the departments' standards, policies, and procedures.
• →Utilize an electronic health record for documentation and computer-based systems for administrative functions.
• →Familiarity in utilizing HIPAA-compliant Zoom platform to ensure reliable virtual client care, and in being able to effectively coordinate clinical consultation with counseling team.
• →Seek and utilize supervision for any and all clinical care.

Referrals  (5%)

• →Collaborate and refer to established community behavioral health partners.

Departmental Meetings and Wellness Activities (10%)

• →Participate in weekly all-staff meetings (Wednesdays).
• →Report on students, and communicate outcomes, next steps and needs to:
• →Initiate any follow up on needs identified at these meetings, including creating a written summary, updating internal documentation in EMR, and internal high-risk list.
• →Follow-up required with all other internal and external providers involved in the client’s care.
• →Be available for other duties as assigned by the Associate Vice Chancellor of the Office of Student Mental Health and Wellness.
• →Working collaboratively with diverse teams across the NYMC and TCDM campus to support student mental health programming and services.
• →Availability to participate in Wednesday Department meeting is required.

• Doctorate or master’s degree from an accredited program in Social Work.
• Ability to preserve confidentiality of information.
• Ability to adhere to the NASW code of conduct, ethics and values for Social Work Professionals.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical skills necessary for collection and assessment of psychosocial data, interpretation of data and ongoing review of treatment efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ability to self-assess when in need of support and engage in active communication with counseling leadership when facing challenges, to adhere to professional boundaries and ethics, to seek supervision and remains within the scope of practice for social work.
• Ability to work independently and desire to be a team.
• Excellent oral communication skills (i.e., ability to deal effectively with others; speak professionally on the phone, etc.)
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience working with issues related to gender, culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, socio-economic status, etc. and skilled with techniques for counseling students from diverse backgrounds.
• Required licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, in good standing in New York State.
• Maintain continuing education requirements applicable to licensure and credentialing. 
• Proficiency with virtual platforms, EMR, Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to learn and proficiently use Office EMR, Microsoft Office Suite.
• 5 years of clinical experience post licensure.
• Experience with student population in an academic health center preferred.