Forensic Social Worker
Location: New York, New York
Description: The Legal Aid Society - New York City is currently interviewing Forensic Social Worker right now, this position will be situated in New York. Further informations about this position opportunity kindly read the description below. The Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice has an immediate opening for a Forensic Social Worker in its New York County office to provide client services.
While working closely with the CP attorneys, the FSW's primary role is to interview clients, and any collateral contacts, with the goal of gathering a life history to highlight mitigating circumstances such as mental illness, drug addiction, trauma and/or chronic poverty leading to a client's involvement in the criminal justice system. The FSW will then advocate for an alternative to incarceration, or lesser sentence, based on mitigating factors. The FSW will evaluate clients and recommend a treatment program. The FSW will fill out necessary paperwork and provide supporting documents to facilitate a client's interview with a program and/or to assure a client's acceptance into a program. The FSW educates the client about treatment options, offers crisis intervention, and short-term counseling. The FSW provides essential information to attorneys about clients.
In this position, you will: interview the client, performing a thorough bio-psycho-social assessm! ent. During this process, crisis intervention, brief treatment! , or short term counseling may also be performed; identify and interview collateral sources of information. Collateral interviews are done with family members, friends, teachers, social workers, community members, and others connected to the client; request, review, and analyze life history records (i.e. school, medical, psychiatric) in order to document specific arguments within written reports; develop casework plans in conjunction with the attorneys, develop alternative sentencing plans, and provide advocacy in court; assess a client's readiness for treatment and make referrals to substance abuse treatment, domestic violence, mental health counseling, shelters, etc.; and perform other duties as assigned.
The ideal candidate must possess: strong diagnostic skills with a background emphasis in working with clients with the following special needs: MICA, physical illnesses and physical disabilities, mental illness, mental retardation, developmental delays, a! nd histories of substance abuse; ability to interface with Judges, District Attorneys and Correctional Personnel; ability to negotiate with community based treatment centers; excellent written and oral communication skills; excellent organizational skills; strong computer skills; ability to work within a team model; and an MSW degree and NYS certification in social work (LMSW).
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If you were eligible to this position, please send us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to The Legal Aid Society - New York City.
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This position will be started on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:28:22 GMT
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