Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Overview

New York Medical College (NYMC) seeks a full-time Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) to provide direct care to students for our student population of medical, dental, and graduate students. Our team plays an integral role in student success and is focused on providing mental health and wellness support to students in all graduate programs of the College. Under the supervision of the Associate Vice Chancellor, the LCSW is responsible for a variety of direct clinical responsibilities, including, but not limited to, conducting assessments and triage; time-limited psychotherapy and supportive counseling; identification of, and liaison with community resources and social supports, group counseling, and care for high-risk individuals. This role also includes establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with a broad range of campus constituencies including students, administration, faculty, and staff.

Responsibilities

The LCSW will provide 17.5 hours of work per week across the following areas:

Clinical Hours & Counseling(75%)

• Deliver short term individual therapy and conduct a needs-based assessment, including triage, clinical consultation, coordinating treatment with other professionals, and providing community referrals when crisis intervention as needed or requested, minimum of 4 clients per workday, maintain case load and terminate as clinically indicated to prioritize urgent student needs.

• Facilitate support group(s) as needed.

• Provide culturally sensitive clinical services that address the unique needs of students from diverse backgrounds, and students with intersecting identities.

• Maintain strict adherence to FERPA and HIPAA guidelines and confidentiality practices.

• Participate in Wellness programming and activities.

• Other duties as assigned by the Associate Vice Chancellor and/or Associate Director.

Administration(10%)

• Produce timely, empirically supported, and confidential record keeping in strict accordance with the departments' standards, policies, and procedures.

• Utilize an electronic health record for documentation and computer-based systems for administrative functions.

• Familiarity in utilizing HIPAA-compliant Zoom platform to ensure reliable virtual client care, and in being able to effectively coordinate clinical consultation with counseling team.

• Seek and utilize supervision for any and all clinical care.

Referrals (5%)

• Collaborate and refer to established community behavioral health partners.

Departmental Meetings and Wellness Activities(10%)

• Participate in weekly all-staff meetings (Wednesdays).

• Report on students, and communicate outcomes, next steps and needs to:

• Initiate any follow up on needs identified at these meetings, including creating a written summary, updating internal documentation in EMR, and internal high-risk list.

• Follow-up required with all other internal and external providers involved in the client’s care.

• Be available for other duties as assigned by the Associate Vice Chancellor of the Office of Student Mental Health and Wellness.

• Working collaboratively with diverse teams across the NYMC and TCDM campus to support student mental health programming and services.

• Availability to participate in Wednesday Department meeting is required.

Qualifications

• Doctorate or master’s degree from an accredited program in Social Work.

• Ability to preserve confidentiality of information.

• Ability to adhere to the NASW code of conduct, ethics and values for Social Work Professionals.

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Analytical skills necessary for collection and assessment of psychosocial data, interpretation of data and ongoing review of treatment efficiency and effectiveness.

• Ability to self-assess when in need of support and engage in active communication with counseling leadership when facing challenges, to adhere to professional boundaries and ethics, to seek supervision and remains within the scope of practice for social work.

• Ability to work independently and desire to be a team.

• Excellent oral communication skills (i.e., ability to deal effectively with others; speak professionally on the phone, etc.)

• Demonstrate knowledge and experience working with issues related to gender, culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, socio-economic status, etc. and skilled with techniques for counseling students from diverse backgrounds.

• Required licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, in good standing in New York State.

• Maintain continuing education requirements applicable to licensure and credentialing.

• Proficiency with virtual platforms, EMR, Microsoft Office Suite.

• Ability to learn and proficiently use Office EMR, Microsoft Office Suite.

• 5 years of clinical experience post licensure.

• Experience with student population in an academic health center preferred.

Minimum Salary

USD $35,100.00/Yr.

Maximum Salary

USD $43,875.00/Yr.

New York Medical College offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees* which includes:

• Full range of Health Plans

• Medical Plans (choice of EPO, PPO, High Deductible HSA)

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

• Dental Plans (PPO & HMO) and Vision Plan

• Dependent Care and Transit Programs

• Life Insurance, AD&D and Voluntary Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short-term and Long-term disability programs

• Retirement Plan (403b) - matching contribution up to 5% for eligible/enrolled employees following one year of employment (may make own pre-tax contributions immediately following employment)

• New York Medical College Tuition Exemption Program for eligible employees, their spouse and dependent children

• Legal plan

• Employee Assistance Program

• Early-Release Fridays (October - March)

• Generous Paid Time Off

• Vacation, Sick Leave, Personal Leave

• Annual Holiday Schedule

*Members of the 1199 SEIU and 32BJ unions may participate in some of NYMC’s voluntary benefits, but they participate in separate Health and Welfare benefit programs.

New York Medical College (NYMC), a member of Touro University, is a health sciences College whose purpose is to educate clinical and public health professionals as well as researchers, to conduct biomedical and population-based research. Through its faculty and affiliated partners, the College engenders a diverse and inclusive community that promotes an atmosphere of excellence, scholarship and professionalism.

Touro University is an equal opportunity employer. Touro University treats all employees, job applicants, and students without unlawful consideration of race, ethnicity, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition), age, disability, medical condition, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military service or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We are committed to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy in all decisions, including but not limited to, recruitment, the administration of educational programs and activities, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, placement, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff, suspension, expulsion and termination, and all other terms and conditions of admission, matriculation, and employment.

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Job Locations US-NY-Hawthorne

Requisition ID 2026-13367

Position Type Part-Time

Schedule Shift 1

Hours Per Week 17.5

Travel None

Category Student Services

FLSA Status Non-Exempt