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About the Role
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House seeks a part-time Social Worker for its Women's Mental Health Shelter. This role is integral to assisting clients in achieving long-term mental health stability and securing housing. The ideal candidate will focus on community-based human services with a social justice lens, dedicated to supporting clients in optimizing their wellness and achieving permanent housing placements.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive social services and case management to an assigned caseload of clients.
- Complete initial and ongoing client assessments and service planning, including Independent Living Plans (ILPs), psychosocial assessments, intake needs assessments, required mental health screenings, 2010E supportive housing applications, CAPS surveys, and other required documentation.
- Assist clients with applying for, securing, and maintaining government benefits, including Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, Access-A-Ride, Lifeline, EPIC, SSI/SSD, and other available benefits.
- Assist clients with obtaining or replacing vital documents necessary for benefits, housing, and other services.
- Connect clients to on-site and community-based mental health, medical, substance use, benefits, and other supportive services.
- Participate in treatment planning and implementation, case conferences, and clinical staff meetings.
- Support clients in developing substance use, harm reduction, cessation, and recovery goals.
- Facilitate clinical, psychoeducational, and support groups and workshops.
- Provide crisis intervention, de-escalation, and conflict resolution.
- Escort clients to housing tours, medical and mental health appointments, public benefits appointments, and other community-based services.
- Provide ongoing aftercare support to assigned clients transitioning to permanent housing.
- Maintain timely, accurate, and comprehensive documentation of all services provided.
- Interface regularly with clients during scheduled working hours, providing excellent customer service.
- Support the day-to-day operations of the Women’s Mental Health Shelter during scheduled shifts.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary staff and external community-based organizations.
- Complete all other responsibilities and duties as assigned by the Clinical Director.
Requirements
- Excellent interpersonal, engagement, and relationship-building skills.
- Compassionate, energetic, organized, and self-motivated.
- Effective communication and collaboration with clients, colleagues, and interdisciplinary team members.
- Ability to maintain professionalism and appropriate boundaries in a fast-paced environment.
- Skilled in engaging individuals with complex behavioral health needs using a person-centered, trauma-informed, and harm reduction approach.
- Experience working with unhoused populations, individuals with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), substance use, trauma, and/or residential or shelter-based services is preferred.
- Experience supporting women experiencing homelessness and co-occurring mental health and medical complexities is strongly preferred.
- Spanish fluency is strongly ideal.
- Flexibility in scheduling is strongly preferred.
- All individuals, as a condition for employment by Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, are required to undergo a pre-employment background check.
Skills
- Social services
- Case management
- Housing counseling
- Crisis intervention
- Person-centered support
- Trauma-informed support
- Independent Living Plans (ILPs)
- Psychosocial assessments
- Intake needs assessments
- Mental health screenings
- 2010E supportive housing applications
- CAPS surveys
- Government benefits assistance (Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, Access-A-Ride, Lifeline, EPIC, SSI/SSD)
- Vital document assistance
- Treatment planning
- Case conferences
- Clinical staff meetings
- Substance use support
- Harm reduction
- Recovery goal support
- Group facilitation (clinical, psychoeducational, support)
- De-escalation
- Conflict resolution
- Client escort services
- Aftercare support
- Documentation
- Customer service
Location
- Upper East Side of Manhattan
Work Type
- Part-time
- Flexible schedule
Experience Level
- Part-time schedule
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work (BSW) required
- MSW or LMSW preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $38.29 hourly rate
Benefits
- Professional Development Opportunities (certifications, licenses, conferences, trainings, lectures)
- Staff events and parties
- Staff use of State-of-the Art Fitness Center, Gym and Swimming Pool
- Staff group fitness classes, swimming lessons and lap swim
About the Company
- Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is one of New York’s premier human services providers, founded in 1894.
- It provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services—social, educational, health, housing, mental health, nutritional and fitness—improving the lives of 16,000 people annually.
- Services are provided to individuals from ages 3 to 103 on the East Side of Manhattan.
- Clients include older adults, unhoused and formerly unhoused adults, children and families, disabled persons, and adult learners.
- The Women’s Mental Health Shelter is a 24-hour program addressing critical issues for 80 homeless women, age 45 and over, with histories of mental illness.
- The shelter offers a comprehensive continuum of care including social work, medical, nursing, psychiatric care, peer support, housing placement, benefits assistance, arts and recreation, and food and nutrition programs.
- The talented, multi-disciplinary team includes social workers, mental health clinicians, nurses, psychiatric providers, peer advocates, and program assistants.
Equal Opportunity
- Lenox Hill Neighborhood House prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
- The policy of equal employment opportunity (EEO) and anti-discrimination applies to all aspects of the relationship between Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and its colleagues.