Senior Mental Health Counselor

Reports to: Director of Mental Health

Classification: Full-Time | Non-Exempt

Salary & Benefits: $76,000 to $85,000. The Center offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401K with an employer contribution, voluntary life and LTD insurance, paid parental, family care and gender affirming healthcare leave. We also offer a generous paid time off policy.

Schedule: Generally Monday through Friday. Work days and hours may shift depending on scheduling needs; typical schedule will be 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; or 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.. Flexibility required. This position is classified as a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days onsite per week, with Thursdays as a staff-wide in-office day.

Summary: The Senior Mental Health Counselor is primarily responsible for providing individual and family counseling along with providing supervisory support as assigned by Clinic management. The range of responsibilities includes assessment, outreach, therapeutic engagement, crisis-intervention, elements of case management, advocacy, and supervisory responsibility. The Counselor may also lead groups, and see couples by the discretion of the Clinic management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide individual counseling to youth (ages 13 and up) presenting with a range of mental health concerns.
• Provide family counseling to families needing support around their child’s LGBTQ+ identity.
• Provide individual counseling to adults presenting with a range of mental health concerns.
• Maintaining a caseload of 30 clients with regular weekly sessions, when not supervising. When supervising an MSW/MHC Intern, caseload may be reduced to balance supervisory duties.
• Provide regular supervision to MSW/MHC Intern and complete documentation needed to comply with Internship requirements.
• Complete clinical documentation in a timely fashion, including initial outreach attempts, service referrals, progress notes, treatment plans, billing documentation and other records as necessary.
• Provide intake and mental health assessments and screenings, including counseling, crisis-intervention, and referral.
• Develop and facilitate short term support groups, both clinically and programmatically, as needed.
• Participate in clinic meetings, clinical supervision and other clinical training opportunities.
• Regular attendance in agency wide meetings such as Center Staff meeting, Center Insights and any other requested events.
• Provide administrative support in grant reporting (e.g. testimonials that attest to clinical impact.)
• Represent clinic and clinical work to external partners and other stakeholders when needed.
• Assist in linking clients to both internal and external resources including referrals and follow-up support.
• Ensure regular maintenance of clinical licensure requirements along with keeping up with continuing education.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

• Advanced clinical degree and licensure required (LCSW) and SIFI eligible (if not already obtained). LMSW with significant experience working with LGBTQ youth and their families are also encouraged to apply.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the provision of mental health, community, and social services support.
• Bilingual Spanish is preferred.
• Knowledge of behavioral health resources in the greater New York City area and treatment regulations and programs
• Knowledge of electronic medical recordkeeping is a plus.
• Significant knowledge, understanding and experience working with LGBTQ+, TGNC, POC, and Immigrant populations, including knowledge of the spectrum of gender identity, transgender issues, immigration, and POC issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of work styles, and cultural backgrounds and across levels of the organization.
• Commitment to inclusive, multicultural programming; prior experience working within coalitions with diverse communities and an understanding of intersectional oppressions.
• Knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ+ issues, needs, and interests of LGBT communities of color, youth, adults, families, and community, including knowledge of the spectrum of gender identity and transgender issues and homelessness are strongly preferred.
• Understanding of, and commitment to, undoing structural and institutional racism and bias and the spectrum of gender identity and bias. Consideration of the impacts and outcomes in decision-making processes and on underserved and historically oppressed communities.
• A strong commitment to social justice and the mission of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

The Center’s Commitment to Equity & Inclusivity:

The Center was born of community activism in response to the AIDS epidemic, ensuring a place for LGBTQ people to access information, care, and support that they were not receiving elsewhere. We opened in 1983 to help people who had doors constantly closed in their faces, ostracized by family, friends, and shunned by the general society. Since that time, we have continually provided a wide array of services and programs to serve our community, with an intentional focus on providing support to those who are most vulnerable. We have always taken great care to be a space that responds to community need; engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion work is another outgrowth of those ongoing efforts. We recognize that in order to help LGBTQ individuals and our diverse community achieve parity in health, justice, opportunity and success outcomes, our organization must hold a strong foundation and competency in, as well as invest organizational focus on, equity and inclusion frameworks, practices and policies. This is also true in our hiring and retention of staff.

The Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.