Social Worker Supervisor, LSW, LCSW, LMSW

Job Description

Job Description

York Street Project’s housing program seeks a Social Worker Supervisor with a background in psychosocial / clinical responsibilities.

The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable and skilled in working with vulnerable and at-risk populations, helping them stabilize their families and grow toward self-sufficiency and independence.

This position requires a valid and current LMSW license. This is a full-time, onsite position located in Jersey City, NJ.

The salary range is from $67,000 up to $75,000 per year. This is a full-time, onsite position located in Jersey City, NJ.

Overview :

• Supervisory responsibilities include assigning, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling work for staff and social work interns;
• evaluating and managing performance; interviewing, hiring, and orienting new employees; training employees when necessary;

making salary recommendations; and recommending coaching, discipline, or termination when necessary.

• Assessing the psycho-social status and needs of housing unstable families and their children
• Recruiting new families for housing programs and Participating in the interview and intake process
• Assisting in the development of individual service plans
• Carrying out social evaluations through individual therapy sessions and planning interventions based on the findings
• Maintaining clinical records on all participants
• Utilizing the internal database (Apricot) to maintain client documents
• Utilizing the national homeless database Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) to manage intakes and discharges
• Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with community agencies / partners that can supplement services to participants.
• Serves as liaison between participant and community agencies / partners
• Acts as support service team’s point of contact for all specialty programming and services (i.e. mental health, behavioral health, substance use, domestic violence, child welfare, etc.)
• Provides information and referral services for community resources to participants
• Attending interdisciplinary group meetings; and attending and participating in community meetings.
• Actively participating in the planning and execution of activities and events that improve the quality of life and stabilization of families.
• Researching and keeping current with evidence-based therapeutic services, tools, and clinical models
• Supervising MSW interns (supervision, instruction, and assessment) :
• Acts as point of contact with the School of Social Work department
• Possesses or willing to complete Seminar in Field Instruction (SIFI)

Education :

• Master’s Degree in Social Work
• Valid and current LMSW license in NJ
• Seminar in Field Instruction (SIFI) certified or willingness to complete
• Prior work with poor / minority groups, especially young women and children.
• Ability to practice on individual, family and group level.
• Able to analyze, assess and intervene on systemic level.
• Possess diagnostic and treatment skills.
• Theoretical appreciation and practice in family system model, Comprehensive Youth Centered Service Model, Trauma Informed Care, Critical Time Intervention, Motivational Interviewing, and Strengths Based therapeutic models.
• Knowledgeable of Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)

Qualifications and Skills :

• Experience in supervising and managing staff.
• Able to analyze, assess and intervene on systemic level.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience with case management or related software and databases is a plus!
• Ability to work with ethnic and racial minority groups, especially women and children.
• Commitment to establish a model of personal and institutional development that flows from values of inclusiveness and cooperation.
• Commitment to values of mutuality and collaboration.
• Valid driver’s license preferred.
• Bilingual / Spanish preferred.

Company Description

Established by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in 1989, York Street Project has been dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty for women and children.

We help our families unlearn the lessons of hopelessness and helplessness created by a lifetime of poverty. At York Street Project we believe in these core values : collaboration, compassionate care, respect for human dignity, justice through equitable access to resources, and responding to the signs of the times.

Company Description

Established by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in 1989, York Street Project has been dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty for women and children.

We help our families unlearn the lessons of hopelessness and helplessness created by a lifetime of poverty. At York Street Project we believe in these core values : collaboration, compassionate care, respect for human dignity, justice through equitable access to resources, and responding to the signs of the times.