Resiliency Specialist - Social Worker

Resiliency Specialist - Social Worker

Degree Required: Masters of Social Work (MSW) Licensure Required: New Jersey LSW

Location: Newark, New Jersey. Hybrid schedule: 2 days per week in office required

Type of Employment: Full-Time Exempt

Compensation: $53,000-$60,000 (Depending on years of experience and licensure/certifications) with a comprehensive benefits package

About the Sanar Institute

Sanar, meaning “to heal” in Spanish, is dedicated to healing individuals and communities impacted by traumatic violence. Sanar is recognized as an international leader in fostering resilience through evidence-based, community led, and lived experience driven approaches. Sanar has two key programs:

1. Sanar’s Wellness Center provides evidence-based, trauma-specific mental health services to individuals with lived experience of human trafficking, sexual violence, domestic violence and image-based sexual abuse. Located in Newark, New Jersey, Sanar’s Wellness Center specializes in culturally specific healing services available in English and Spanish.
2. Sanar’s Thrive Initiative educates multidisciplinary stakeholders and supports trauma-exposed frontline professionals at the local, national, and global level.

Sanar’s team is comprised of multilingual and multicultural professionals who are experienced in creating meaningful access to life-changing mental health and wellness support. Our team includes diverse trauma clinicians, training specialists, and individuals with lived experience who work in concert to provide the highest quality of services and development of best practices.

At Sanar, we believe healing is a human right and work to ensure all individuals and communities have access to trauma-conscious care.

Sanar offers an excellent benefits package (health, dental, and vision insurance, 401k with 4% match from the employer, and life insurance), professional development reimbursement, parking reimbursement, quarterly wellness days, weekly paid time to access mental health and wellness care, in addition to a generous paid time off program with 15 days in the first year of employment and 13 paid holidays. Bilingual employees also receive a $1,500 increase to their base salary for providing services in another language. Sanar also offers flexible work scheduling, hybrid scheduling, a supportive work environment that encourages professional and personal development, a commitment to self-care and convenient headquarters located in Newark, New Jersey near Penn Station.

Position Overview

Sanar is seeking a Resiliency Social Worker to provide trauma healing services through Sanar’s Wellness Center. This position will specialize in direct mental health services for individuals and groups for individuals impacted by interpersonal violence.

Candidates must hold an LSW in New Jersey and must have experience working directly with historically marginalized communities, especially BIPOC individuals impacted by interpersonal violence. Though there is no additional language requirement, bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply and will receive an increase to the base salary for providing services in an additional language. An understanding of polyvictimization and complex trauma is critical to succeed in this role. A 40-hour domestic violence or sexual assault crisis certification, and/or post-graduate certification in a trauma-specific modality are both a plus, but not a requirement.

In addition, this position requires a professional who is highly organized, solutions and opportunities oriented, able to work both independently and collaboratively, and has experience adhering to grant requirements.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive, trauma-conscious, person-centered, empowerment-based individual mental health services for individuals impacted by interpersonal violence including human trafficking, sexual violence, domestic violence, and tech-based sexual violence utilizing the Sanar Institute’s Tri-Phasic Healing Model
• Facilitate group therapy, including therapeutic groups and psychoeducation groups.
• Facilitate Community Oriented Healing workshops, which are community-based skill building events centered around trauma response management tools for the local community.
• Create trauma-informed educational materials, organize and track existing libraries of materials, and support the strengthening of internal documents and protocols to ensure they are trauma- informed, client-entered, empowerment-based and culturally specific.
• Develop and manage connections and referrals to other community resources and services to support the clinical team with client case management needs.
• Keep detailed person-centered case notes to fulfill all grant-reporting duties, HIPAA regulations and all grant requirements
• Provide effective services to clients utilizing appropriate clinical theory for trauma healing and support of symptom reduction, whether in assessment or counseling
• Provide services in accordance with Licensure regulations defined by the Board of Social Work Examiners.
• May supervise Clinical Resiliency Fellows (Typically 2nd year MSW interns clinical placement) or volunteers
• Assist in any other identified programmatic areas necessary to achieve Sanar’s mission and vision

Required Professional Competencies

• LSW in New Jersey
• Minimum of two years’ experience in clinical services (internships can be counted) with individuals impacted by trauma
• Emotional maturity, stability, and resilience is required, along with excellent social skills that are authentic, empathic, and create a strong therapeutic alliance with clients.
• Experience and sensitivity working in multi-cultural environments
• Knowledge and understanding of diversity, oppression, and privilege and how these impact clients
• Strong personal practice of self-care and wellness-based supports
• Alignment with Sanar’s mission, vision, and core values
• Excellent Proficiency with Zoom, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

People of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and individuals with lived experience with complex trauma are highly encouraged to apply.

To Apply

Please send a cover letter and your resume including salary requirements to Jessica Mora, Clinical Director, at jessica.mora@sanar-institute.org.