Job Title: Social Worker

Department: Rehabilitation, Workforce and Youth

Employee Status: Exempt Professional-Learned Professional

Reports to: Senior Director of Social Work

Primary Location (s): 500 Greenwich Street, the community and Virtual

Send resume & cover letter to: Taisha Ortiz, Senior Director

of Social Work,tortiz@visionsvcb.org

Why Youll Love Working at VISIONS

• Mission-driven team environment committed to visibility and impact
• Generous benefits: health, dental and vision insurance through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, with minimal cost to the employee.Retirement plan with 5% employer match after the first year of employment with no employee match required.
• four weeks paid vacation + 14 sick days, four personal days and twelve paid holidays
• Agency-sponsored prep for NYS licensure and exam as well as continuing education
• Flexible and inclusive workplace with accommodations provided throughout the hiring and employment process
• Salary range: $67,000 to $72,000 Annually

Summary

The Social Worker will be joining a dynamic team of seasoned, Licensed social workers who have a highly successful track record of providing quality services to individuals who are new to vision loss, re-entering the workforce or who are in immediate need of obtaining benefits.

This position encompasses three distinct components: social casework with participants and their families, assistance with benefits, and outreach to recruit potential participants.

The Social Worker offers time-limited adjustment to blindness counseling and case assistance to people who are blind or visually impaired of all ages. The Social Worker serves as a bridge between participants with vision loss, other service providers and VISIONS. People who are Visually impaired or blind often need advocates to assist with accessing community based mental health or health services. The Social Worker locates benefits and programs, makes a referral and facilitates acceptance of identified services. The Social Worker provides adjustment to blindness counseling with participants who are having difficulty adjusting to their vision loss as well as counsels their family to support the participants independence at school, home, work and in the community. Individual and group approaches may be used.

In the area of community outreach and training, the Social Worker plans, organizes, implements and documents outreach, public education and community activities to recruit participants through referrals from other agencies.

The Social Worker may need to work throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester or the Lower Hudson Valley and Long Island.

The Social Worker accomplishes these responsibilities with dependability, initiative, and creativity. This position requires a strong ability to multitask. This position also requires solid inter…