Social Worker/Mental Health Counselor (English or Bilingual Spanish)

Job Description

Job Description

The Safe Center provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence, rape / sexual assault, child abuse, and human trafficking.

Built on four decades of leadership in the community in responding to victims’ needs, The Safe Center's repertoire of services and expertise in working with child and adult victims of abuse is breaking new ground in victim’s services.

Its mission is To protect, assist, and empower victims of family violence and sexual assault while challenging and changing social systems that tolerate and perpetuate abuse.

To learn more about The Safe Center, please visit www.tscli.org.

Our Rape / Sexual Assault Department provides trauma-focused mental health services to adult victims regardless of gender ages 18 and over (and their non-offending family members) who have been impacted by rape and sexual abuse.

This is a full-time position Monday-Friday with some evenings. Weekly supervision is provided by an LCSW-R. Includes medical / dental benefits and generous paid time off policy.

Responsibilities of the Bilingual Rape and Sexual Assault Counselor include :

• Phone outreach & screening for services
• Intake and assessment
• Crisis intervention & suicide risk assessment
• Individual & group therapy
• Support group facilitation (ideally two groups)
• Information, advocacy, and referral
• Collaboration with Child Advocacy Center multi-disciplinary team members and other professionals (attendance at meetings) and Collaboration with Rape / Sexual Assault multi-disciplinary team members and other professionals
• Interpretation & translation of documents
• Data entry in agency’s database empowerDB

Eligibility Requirements :

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling, or equivalent
• NY State licensure or eligible for limited permit
• Bilingual (English / Spanish) a MUST
• Clinical experience working with adult survivors of sexually abuse strongly preferred.
• Training in trauma treatment modalities strongly preferred.
• Commitment to a strengths-based approach

Salary : $50,000 annually

$50,000 annually

$55,000 annually Bilingual Spanish

To Apply :

Send resume and cover letter to Janine Sadowski or fax to (516) 465-4740. To view this job and others posted on our website, go to http : / / www.

tscli.org / career -opportunities / . NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. While every application will be reviewed, only applicants being considered for the next step in the recruitment process will be contacted.

The Safe Center LI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, , religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions) 1 , gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, , marital status, parental or familial status, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, , status as a protected veteran, military service, housing status, other non-merit factors, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

The Safe Center LI believes that diversity and inclusion are critical to providing comprehensive and quality services to the communities we serve.

Our goal is to hire, promote and retain a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve, at all job levels.

We encourage those with lived experiences in the communities we serve to apply.

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