Licensed Master Social Worker

Job Description

Join the Central New York Psychiatric Team as a Licensed Master Social Worker!

Are you ready to start your Social Work career with New York State? Central New York Psychiatric Center (CNYPC) is recruiting for a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) to provide professional social work services to individuals with mental illness at Green Haven Correctional Facility’s mental health satellite unit. Shift schedule is Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, with Saturday and Sunday as pass days.

As an LMSW at CNYPC, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team that provides culturally competent and evidence-based treatment and support services in a recovery-oriented environment, including:

• Providing crisis intervention, service linkages, and discharge planning
• Assisting in the planning and implementation of patient treatment plans; assessing patient progress and consulting with other treatment team members to make appropriate revisions.
• Interviewing patient and family members to obtain a comprehensive psychiatric history
• Serving as a liaison between the facility, clinics, hospitals, parole representatives, and community agencies
• Acting as a facilitator, making appropriate referrals, and advocating on behalf of patients
• Taking notes, recording, and reporting significant changes in patient condition
• Initiating, completing, and properly maintaining all required documentation promptly and in accordance with agency and facility recordkeeping protocols
• Ensuring patients and their families are aware of facility and community mental health resources
• Performing appropriate interventions in response to mental health crises.

About CNYPC:

CNYPC provides a full range of care and treatment to individuals incarcerated in the state and county correctional systems at their secure forensic inpatient hospital in Marcy, NY and at a network of corrections based mental health units for incarcerated individuals in the custody of the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) in Cayuga, Clinton, Chemung, Dutchess, Erie, Oneida, Orleans, Seneca, Westchester, and Wyoming counties.

All of CNYPC’s locations are within close proximity to major urban centers - New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Montreal, and Toronto and offer a wide variety of recreational activities for the outdoor enthusiast.

Benefits and Opportunities:

If you would like to join CNYPC and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer the following benefits and opportunities:

• Competitive Salaries: $74,193 - $94,121
• NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Access to tuition assistance programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, personal, & sick leave
• NYS Retirement programs

Minimum Qualifications:

Licensed and currently registered by New York State as a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW).

Additional Comments:

The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at View phone number on ziprecruiter.com or via email at View email address on ziprecruiter.com.

In order to be hired and to maintain your employment, candidates cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists. If appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists, you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed, you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.

Background checks required.