Job Description

For nearly 150 years, The Jewish Board has been delivering innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.

LOCATION
1358 56th St
Brooklyn, NY 11219, US

Make a bigger difference

Sabbath Counselor
At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

The Sabbath Counselor works over the Sabbath period (Friday afternoon through Saturday night) and on Jewish Holidays. The Sabbath Counselor is responsible for providing a spiritual environment and culturally sensitive services for the individuals in the division.

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

1. If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
2. We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.
3. With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.
4. Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
5. We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
6. You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

Purpose:

The Mishkon Division provides supports and services in a healthy and safe environment for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities living in residential programs and in community settings. Our core values are to provide a healthy and safe environment that promotes person-centered planning, community integration, and close collaboration with families and the community. This is all accomplished through an Orthodox Jewish lens, and with an understanding that staff, at all levels of the division, is the determining factor in achieving positive outcomes for our clients.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Sabbath Counselor works over the Sabbath period (Friday afternoon through Saturday night) and on Jewish Holidays. The Sabbath Counselor is responsible for providing a spiritual environment and culturally sensitive services for the individuals in the division.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Conducts religious services with the individual(s) in the synagogue environment.
2. Ensure that clients attending services wear appropriate religious attire.
3. Says the appropriate blessings (with the individual(s), required for consumption of specific food items.
4. Sings Sabbath and Holiday appropriate songs with the individual(s).
5. May go on walks over the Sabbath or holiday where appropriate.
6. Conducts a Sabbath party/ceremony on Saturday or holiday afternoon with refreshments and singing.
7. Oversees the food service delivery on Friday evening and Saturday morning/afternoon as well as holiday to ensure proper kosher standards are kept at all times.
8. Required to dress in appropriate Sabbath and Jewish Holiday attire.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

1. Compassion, empathy, patience, and genuine desire to make a positive impact on individual’s lives.
2. Excellent client engagement skills.
3. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
4. Strong knowledge of spiritual environment and culturally traditions with Orthodox Jewish practices.

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED:

Must be at least 18 years old, no educational requirements, must have knowledge of Orthodox Jewish laws, traditions, and practices.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

Experience working with individuals with Intellectual Disabilities preferred.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:

Basic computer skills required (Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel).

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT:

The position entails some lifting and moving related to food service. Pushing a wheelchair and walking clients from one residence to another.

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

Our Values:

1. Treat every person with dignity
2. Strive to be outstanding
3. Embrace each other’s differences
4. Engage individuals and families as our partners

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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