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About the Role

This role supports yeshiva day school communities through a flexible, school-based wellness model, building trusted relationships, providing early mental health assessment, brief stabilization, clinical consultation, psychoeducation, and strengthening pathways to care. As the model grows, the Specialist will also offer training and consultation to additional schools.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical consultation to school staff regarding student mental health concerns, behavioral and emotional challenges, and appropriate next steps.
• Conduct brief student assessments and short-term intervention with a focus on early identification and connection to care.
• Facilitate classroom-based wellness workshops and student-facing programming focused on resilience, coping, emotional awareness, and help-seeking.
• Deliver psychoeducation trainings for teachers and parents on key topics including adolescent development, anxiety and stress, grief, trauma-informed support, and referral pathways.
• Offer regular consultation windows or open availability within each school, with flexibility to respond to emerging needs.
• Provide warm handoffs and active linkage to the Center for Jewish Mental Health, JCS programs, and other community resources.
• Support school communities during critical incidents and periods of heightened stress.
• Participate in program planning meetings, supervision, and team consultation.
• Contribute school-based observations and insights to help shape training content, programming priorities, and model refinement.
• Attend introductory meetings and relationship-building conversations with prospective partner schools.
• Provide occasional trainings, workshops, or consultations to schools beyond the two anchor sites.
• Represent JCS and the Center for Jewish Mental Health in community settings and support broader outreach to yeshiva communities.
• Track activities, consultations, workshops, referrals, and emerging trends to support program evaluation and funder reporting.
• Help refine workflows, communication practices, and referral pathways as the yeshiva wellness model develops.

Requirements

• Strong clinical knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, including comfort with brief assessment, triage, short-term support, and consultation.
• Demonstrated cultural competence and understanding of Orthodox Jewish communities, yeshiva day school culture, religious norms, family systems, and sensitivities related to mental health stigma and help-seeking.
• Ability to build trust and credibility with school leadership, teachers, parents, and students.
• Strong facilitation and public speaking skills.
• Organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage two school relationships and a varied portfolio of responsibilities within a developing program model.
• Collaborative and relational working style; ability to partner across JCS programs, the Center for Jewish Mental Health, and school communities.
• Comfort working in an evolving environment and helping to create structure where systems are still being built.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, families, or school-based settings required; internship or field placement experience is applicable.
• Ability to provide brief clinical assessment, short-term support, consultation, and referral with appropriate supervision required.
• Strong cultural competence and demonstrated understanding of Orthodox Jewish religious, spiritual, cultural, and communal life required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) and comfort with documentation systems and virtual communication platforms.
• Ability to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.

Skills

• Child and adolescent mental health
• Brief assessment
• Triage
• Short-term support
• Consultation
• Cultural competence
• Orthodox Jewish communities
• Yeshiva day school culture
• Facilitation
• Public speaking
• Organization
• Self-direction
• Collaboration
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Documentation systems
• Virtual communication platforms
• Data entry
• Trauma-informed practice
• Crisis intervention
• School-based mental health
• Community mental health
• Hebrew language skills

Location

• New York City
• Brooklyn
• Remote

Work Type

• School-based
• Remote

Experience Level

• New role
• Experience working with children, adolescents, families, or school-based settings required; internship or field placement experience is applicable.

Education Level

• New York State LMSW required.
• Training or experience in child and adolescent mental health preferred.
• Training in trauma-informed practice, crisis intervention, school-based mental health, or community mental health preferred.

About the Company

• Jewish Community Services (JCS) takes a population health approach to supporting the mental health and well-being of New York City’s Jewish community.
• JCS works to reduce stigma, prioritize prevention, strengthen resiliency, and create clear pathways to care for individuals, families, schools, and communities.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.