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About the Role
The Criminal Defense Practice has two openings for a Forensic Social Worker in its Brooklyn Office to provide client services. While working closely with the Criminal Defense attorneys, the Forensic Social Worker’s (FSW) primary role is to interview clients and collateral contacts to gather life history information, highlighting mitigating circumstances such as mental illness, drug addiction, trauma, and/or chronic poverty that may have led to a client’s involvement in the criminal justice system.
Responsibilities
- Interview the client, performing a thorough bio-psycho-social assessment. During this process, crisis intervention, brief treatment, or short-term counseling may also be performed.
- Identify and interview collateral sources of information, including family members, friends, teachers, social workers, community members, and others connected to the client.
- Request, review, and analyze life history records (e.g., school, medical, psychiatric) to document specific arguments within written reports.
- Develop casework plans in conjunction with the attorneys, develop alternative sentencing plans, and provide advocacy in court.
- Assess a client’s readiness for treatment and make referrals to substance abuse treatment, domestic violence, mental health counseling, shelters, etc.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- MSW degree and New York State (NYS) license in social work (LMSW or LCSW) preferred OR the ability to obtain LMSW licensure within 6 months of hire.
- Strong diagnostic skills with a background emphasis in working with clients with special needs including MICA, physical illnesses and disabilities, mental health, intellectual disabilities and developmental delays, and histories of substance use.
- Ability to interface with Judges, District Attorneys and Correctional Personnel.
- Ability to negotiate with community-based treatment centers.
- Ability to write persuasively.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft 365.
- Ability to work within a team model.
- All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship for a work visa or permit.
- For citizens of Canada and Mexico, LAS will provide a letter documenting employment status that is needed to obtain a TN visa.
Skills
- Diagnostic skills
- Persuasive writing
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Organizational skills
- Microsoft 365 proficiency
- Teamwork
Location
- Brooklyn
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- MSW degree
- LMSW or LCSW license preferred or obtainable within 6 months of hire
Salary/Compensations
- $83,631 - $125,627
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid vacation
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
- State and Federal loan forgiveness programs
- New York state assistance for loan repayments (depending on years of practice)
About the Company
- The Legal Aid Society is committed to a work culture of zealous advocacy, respect, diversity and inclusion, client-oriented defense, access to justice and excellent representation.
- We are dedicated to building a strong professional relationship with each of our clients, understanding their diverse circumstances, and meeting their needs.
- Every member of our community is expected to continuously learn about the dynamic, evolving, and emerging field of knowledge of identity, bias, and systemic forms of oppression and participate in productive efforts to dismantling bias in all forms.
Equal Opportunity
- As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, The Legal Aid Society prohibits discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth); gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.