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Elmcor Youth and Adult Activities Inc

Position: Licensed Social Worker

Summary of Position:This position is primarily responsible for the provision of clinical counseling and psychotherapy services to clients with substance abuse/co-occurring disorders.

Position Status: This is a full-time position

Job Scope:

• Assists with screenings, assessments, and level of care determinations for new clients.
• Conducts bio- psychosocial evaluations.
• Maintains an individual caseload, providing clients with individual and group therapy.
• Formulates treatment plans for individual clients and modifies treatment plans on an on-going basis to reflect client's behavior changes as a result of therapy.
• Conducts evidence based practices to the individual needs of the clients (EBPs include, but are not limited to, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Matrix Model, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).
• Facilitates specialized, therapeutic groups, including trauma informed care, based upon client and program needs.
• Provides crisis counseling.
• Conducts Anger Management and Intimate Partner Violence workshops.
• Provides education on issues related to mental health.
• Provides advocacy for clients and acts as liaison with community resources.
• Collaborates with counselors, drawing on social work experience and client needs.
• Adheres to social work standards and ethical principles, agency policies and procedures, and maintains professional relationships with other disciplines, clients, and community supports.
• Ensures the maintenance of accurate, complete and timely client records that comply with regulatory requirements and agency internal policy and procedures.
• Complies with 42 CFR confidentiality and HIPAA privacy and security regulations.
• May be required to work evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work from a graduate school of social work approved by the New York State Department of Education. The candidate must be licensed by the NYS Dept. of Education as a social worker. The license can be provisional at the outset with the requirement that a permanent license is obtained prior to expiration of provisional license.
• 1 years' experience working with applicable populations who have substance abuse/ co-occurring disorders.
• Must have basic computer skills.

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