Social Worker-Team Leader-CS533501
Institute for Community Living, Inc.
New York, NYFull-time$76K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
The Team Leader is a supervisory mental health professional reporting to the Shelter Director of Social Services. The role organizes and supervises case managers and supports shelter services through consultation, training, case conferences, and oversight of clinical quality. Activities focus on engaging shelter residents, connecting them to care, assessment, housing referrals, and placement.
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Full job description
Education:
- Licensed Social Worker (LMSW) with current NYS Education Department registration.
Experience:
• Experience providing direct services to individuals with mental disabilities (i.e., persons properly diagnosed as suffering from mental illness, alcoholism, or substance abuse)
- Supervisory experience desirable.
Certifications/Licenses:
- Maintenance of LMSW licensure and registration required.
Work Eligibility: Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Work Location Requirement: Onsite
Schedule: Tuesday-Saturday 9:00am-5:30pm with one late day 11:00am-7:30pm (late day can be any day Tuesday-Friday)
Compensation: $76,385
What We Offer
We provide competitive benefits, including:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits: Medical (HSA), Dental and Vision plans
- 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
- Generous Paid Time Off: Vacation, Personal, Sick, Mental Health Days and 12 paid holidays
- Employee Wellness Programs: Employee Assistance Program and mental health resources
- Learning & Development Opportunities: Educational Leave and Tuition Assistance, Training and Career Development Tracks. We support your professional growth by offering Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for qualifying trainings for LCSW, LMSW, and LMHC professionals.
- Additional Perks: Commuter Benefits, recognition programs, discount programs, flexible spending plans, voluntary benefits including pet insurance, identity theft insurance, legal plans, and voluntary ancillary benefits.
About the Role
The Team Leaders is a mental health professional who reports directly to the Shelter Director of Social Services. This position is supervisory in nature. The Team Leader organizes and supervises the work of the case managers assigned to his/her team. All activities are organized around the goal of rapid, effective engagement with the shelter resident, connection to medical and psychiatric care, assessment, preparation of housing referral packet and move to suitable housing.
Primary Responsibilities
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Assists Program Directors and case management staff to provide quality clinical and crisis management services in the shelter primarily through consultation and training.
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Provides consultation to staff on challenging clinical cases, such as those involving high-risk consumers, (i.e., those with co-morbid medical conditions, those identified as at risk psychiatrically)
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Models best practice, trauma-informed, recovery oriented engagement skills for team.
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Organizes and facilitates internal case conferences as needed, working with staff to design and implement person-centered, evidence-based interventions to resolve clinical/compliance issues, assess and motivate consumers, and plan for housing placement.
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Provides staff training as needed (for example, independent living skills training, and wellness activities) and co-facilitates groups- if needed- as a teaching method.
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Oversees the clinical quality and integrity of independent living planning. Provides staff training in these areas.
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Participates actively on the Supported Housing Task Force. Attends the meetings, and is centrally involved in the implementation of initiatives rolled out by the committee.
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Organizes information for the Mayor’s Safety Hub. Participates in discussions related to risk with shelter leadership, DHS analyst and other stakeholders, as needed.
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Other duties as assigned
How this job compares
Set against the 3,202 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$76K/yr
- New York median$67–85K/yr230 salary ranges
- US median$66–93K/yr1,013 salary ranges
This rate, $76K, is close to the New York median midpoint ($75K) — in the middle half of Social Worker salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 538 open Social Worker jobs in New York and 3,202 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Trinity Health43 open
- RochesterRegional Health38 open
- New York State Civil Service24 open
- Experience
- Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,597 postings).
- Education
- 2,200 of the 3,202 open Social Worker jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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