Social Worker, Supervisor of Interns, RAIN Immigrant Center
Position:
The Rian Immigrant Center is seeking a full-time licensed clinical social worker (LCSW or LICSW) who will provide culturally responsive, short-term, and long-term counseling, advocacy and accompaniment, and support group facilitation with adult immigrant clients. The social worker will work with clients from diverse countries and backgrounds, but will be primarily focused on clients who speak Spanish as a first language. In addition, the SW will supervise BSW & MSW interns and participate in program coordination and planning to support strong collaboration across all Rian programs.
Responsibilities:
- Provide trauma-informed initial intakes, needs assessments and referrals, assist in scheduling appointments and provide advocacy and accompaniment resources and services
- Support colleagues as able in responding to the urgent or unanticipated needs of clients
- Provide short term and longer term client-centered, strengths-based and trauma-informed counseling services to adult immigrant individuals and families for a variety of mental health needs including anxiety, depression, homesickness, loneliness, isolation and other trauma-related conditions
- Coordinate counseling efforts with external mental health and/or medical professionals and act as a liaison between clients and service providers
- In collaboration with clients, formulate and work toward identified goals and objectives and track progress over time in client Salesforce record
- Maintain up to date client records and contact notes in Salesforce for all client-related work.
- Identify and share with team relevant resources for RSS client work
- Participate in biweekly team and peer supervision meetings; contribute to the collaborative agendas to guide client focused discussions and program strategy
- Manage social work intern program, including:
- Oversee sourcing, recruitment, selection, and onboarding of undergraduate and graduate interns, specifically focusing on creating pathways for students with lived immigrant experience
- Provide one on one supportive supervision and evaluation of interns
- Collaborate with undergraduate and graduate schools to facilitate mutual learning/learning exchange
- Coordinate with director to assign client referrals to interns
- Support the mission and values of Rian by demonstrating a commitment to social justice and equity; actively participating in Rian's efforts toward being an anti-racist organization; and value, promote, and integrate anti-racist ideas and policies into our work
- In collaboration with RSS director, develop and manage RSS client support groups and topic focused workshops
- Oversee the development, coordination, and expansion of Spanish-speaking women’s psychosocial support group
- Develop informational and educational client workshops based on needs assessments
- Build relationships and referral pathways with community mental health centers and private therapists who can provide culturally-informed and linguistically aligned client services
- In collaboration with other departments, oversee compilation and organization of a shared resource database
Qualifications:
- A commitment to the overall mission and values of the Rian Immigrant Center.
- A Master's degree in Social Work from an accredited university. LCSW or LICSW in the state of MA required.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English with the ability to read, write, and communicate verbally in both languages required.
- Commitment to and experience in working with and providing services to a wide range of racial and ethnic populations.
- Some experience with supervision of interns.
- Some familiarity with immigration law and policy is preferred.
- Advanced interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with various healthcare professionals and to develop and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with individuals and families.
- Knowledge of community resources and agencies that serve immigrant and refugee populations.
- Ability to use Google Suite applications, and basic Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook). Familiarity with Salesforce is a bonus!
- Support director and RSS manager with coordination, decision making, and distribution of client financial assistance
How to Apply:
Send a cover letter and resume as a PDF to career@riancenter.org with
Clinical Social Worker as the subject line.