About Job
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Salary: $70,000–$80,000 per year (commensurate with experience)
Employment Type: Full-time
Overview: Bronx Family Network is hiring for a dedicated and compassionate Social Worker to join our team at a family homeless shelter in Brooklyn, serving 48-unit families with children. The Social Worker will be responsible for coordinating both inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance abuse services, and providing direct psychosocial support to high-risk families.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a small caseload of high-risk families with children.
- Facilitate weekly mental health and substance abuse workshops and onsite support groups.
- Assess clients’ psychosocial needs and develop individualized treatment plans.
- Conduct strength-based, client-centered psychosocial assessments.
- Provide counseling and connect clients with appropriate community and government resources.
- Collaborate with service providers to coordinate care.
- Work with individuals from diverse cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Utilize knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures in all aspects of service delivery.
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) required.
- At least 1–3 years of experience working with families, particularly in a shelter or supportive housing setting.
- Strong knowledge of community-based resources and systems of care.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and crisis intervention skills.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and holidays
- 401K
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Professional Field



Patient Focus
Diagnoses
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Issues
Minority Health
Age Groups
Children (5-10)
Therapeutic Approach
Methodologies
ECT
Modalities
Families
Individuals
Practice Specifics
Settings
Government
Nursing Home
Partial Hospitalization (PHP)
Research Facilities/Labs/Clinical Trials
Residential Treatment Facilities (RTC)
Home Health/In-home
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