
Social Worker Special Instruction
Port Chester, NYJob$55–70/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Metro Therapy, a Powerback Pediatrics company, provides pediatric educational and developmental services across Long Island and New York City. The Social Worker Special Instruction role supports children’s social-emotional development and caregivers through strategies aligned with each child’s IFSP, instruction, coaching, and collaboration with therapy and educational teams. The position requires a Master’s degree in Social Work, LMSW or LCSW certification, and at least one year of relevant experience.
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Overview
For over thirty five years, Metro Therapy, Inc., (a Powerback Pediatrics company) has been serving the educational and developmental needs of the pediatric populations throughout Long Island and the five boroughs of New York City. Metro is proud of our dedication to the community and committed to bringing new, insightful knowledge that will allow us to provide the best services to our clients. We provide employees with comprehensive benefits and compensation, access to clinical support teams, and career growth opportunities.
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Benefits : We offer Medical, Dental, and Vision plans to Full-Time team members. We offer Dental and Vision to Part-Time team members (not applicable to 1099 positions).
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Paid Time Off: We offer generous paid time off to Full-Time and Part-Time team members.
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Continuing Education: Keep growing with free CEUs through Medbridge.
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Perks at Powerback: Enjoy exclusive discounts on a variety of services. Earn rewards through our PowerZone Employee Recognition Program, and expand your expertise with our Clinicians in Action professional development program.
Responsibilities
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Implements strategies aligned with each child’s IFSP to support social-emotional development, behavior change, and parent and caregiver training.
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Teaches play skills, early learning foundational skills, and adaptive skills.
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Provides parent and caregiver coaching and education.
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Collaborates with service coordinators and other members of the child’s therapy and educational teams to ensure coordination of care.
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Maintains timely and compliant documentation in accordance with the Early Intervention guidelines.
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Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
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A Master’s degree in Social Work is required
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Must have LMSW or LCSW certification
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At least one year of experience in Early Intervention, pediatrics, or working with individuals with developmental delays is required
Posted Salary Range
USD $55.00 - USD $70.00 /Hr.
Genesis HealthCare, Inc. and all affiliated entities (collectively “Genesis”) has a strong commitment to diversity that is fully supported and practiced by our officers and leadership team. Genesis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, HIV status, national origin, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, amnesty, military status or status as protected veterans, or any other legally protected characteristic. Genesis is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace free from discrimination and harassment where everyone has equal opportunities to succeed.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,212 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$55–70/hr
- New York median$31–43/hr191 hourly ranges
- US median$31–45/hr851 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $62.50/hr, is 71% above the New York median midpoint ($37/hr) — in the top quarter of Social Worker hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 470 open Social Worker jobs in New York and 3,212 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Trinity Health32 open
- University of Rochester21 open
- New York State Civil Service18 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (1,601 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,717 of the 3,212 open Social Worker jobs (53%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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