We are hiring a Full-time (40 hours/week) Therapeutic Social Worker or Mental Health Counselor for Catholic Charities of Buffalo.
Catholic Charities of Buffalo Offers:
- 12+ paid holidays for full-time
- 25 PTO days a year for full-time
- Flexible schedules
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- No cost Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 403B Retirement plan with employer contributions
- Training and development opportunities
JOB SUMMARY: The Therapeutic Social Worker provides safe agency access to children and parents who may have a past history of separation, neglect, and/or abuse, to work towards increasing positive parenting skills and healing from issues that led to the need for supervised access. The Therapeutic Social Worker helps the children and parents to engage in physically and emotionally safe ways. Therapeutic Social Worker holds parents accountable to program rules while also maintaining rapport.
Great Position for those just completing MSW or MHC degree
- Gain experience in working with children, adults, families, and systems
- Gain experience working in a neutral yet therapeutic-related setting
- Gain experience working with children of all ages
- Gain experience around mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, the family court system, as well as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
- Receive regular training, professional development, and supervision designed to help you strengthen and expand your clinical skills
- Flexible hybrid schedule
- Including evening and partial weekend that includes in person and remote work
EDUCATION: Mental health professional with a Master's degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area (MSW, LMSW, MHC, LMHC, MFT, LMFT). Must be license-eligible/willing to work on getting your license or already licensed.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be prepared to work a flexible schedule including two evenings and one partial weekend day to facilitate visits
- Proficient or willing to learn Microsoft Word., Microsoft Teams, and able to learn agency database
EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Experience working with children and families
- Consistent use of strengths based, trauma-informed care approach
- Effective assessment and engagement skills with mandated clients
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Exemplify Catholic Charities' mission, vision, guiding principles and values. Cultivate a culture of equity and inclusion.
- Communicate, comply with, promote and monitor integrity and ethical performance, consistent with Catholic Charities' Corporate Compliance, Code of Ethics, HIPAA, legal mandates & labor laws, managing contractual/funder regulations & accreditation standards, regulations, policies and procedures (e.g. COA, BBB)
- Engage in weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members
- Provide client-centered, strengths-based, solution-focused trauma-informed care in the context of systems. Cultivate a culture of sensitivity and respect for diversity.
- Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family's ecological context
- Work comfortably with a diverse community of clients
- Continuously work to engage the parent, primary caregiver, family members, supports, and collateral contacts including (counselors, ECDSS, etc...)
- Is respectful, empowering, strength-focused, responsive, empathic, and able work with parents to challenge behaviors and increase their understanding of their children's needs
- Demonstrates ability to intervene when needed during access, to ensure children's safety
- Willing and able to work with mandated clients and deescalate and/or manage conflict if it arises
Catholic Charities offers an array of programs that strive to empower individuals, children and families. Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY, is the most comprehensive human service provider serving the eight counties of Western New York with dozens of programs at 40+ professionally staffed locations.
Catholic Charities serves more than 150,000 Western New Yorkers each year without regard to age, race, gender or religious affiliation. Catholic Charities programs include comprehensive counseling services for all ages, basic emergency assistance including operating 8 food pantries, mental health services, chemical dependency treatment, educational and job readiness services, services to older adults, marriage counseling, immigration and refugee assistance and a variety of programs that address prevention and treatment of a number of family issues.
