Hot Job Sectors: 18 Jobs in Social Assistance Near Yorktown

YORKTOWN, NY — Over the past year or more, Educational and Health Services has been New York's hottest job sector. In this series, Patch is exploring what that means and where the jobs are. Education and Health Services is known as a "supersector."

This week we look at one of the subsectors of that big, big category: Social Assistance — and we've found lots of jobs ranging from purchasing to public relations, advertised by companies and agencies in that subsector around the lower Hudson Valley on indeed.com.

What's a supersector? It means that according to labor experts, who use something called the North American Industry Classification System, there are two sectors and 11 categories inside this one supersector.

First, there's the health care and social assistance sector, which consists of these subsectors:

• Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Hospitals
• Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
• Social Assistance

The educational services sector breaks into these subsectors:

• Elementary and Secondary Schools
• Junior Colleges
• Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
• Business Schools and Computer and Management Training
• Technical and Trade Schools
• Other Schools and Instruction
• Educational Support Services

Look for or post local opportunities in the Jobs section on Yorktown-Somers Patch.

The social assistance sub-sector consists of these industry groups:

• Individual and Family Services
• Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services
• Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Child Day Care Services

SEE ALSO: Hot Job Sectors: 17 Jobs in Ambulatory Health Care Services

Here are some of the local jobs in the Social Assistance sector.

• Assistant Director of Behavioral Health Services: St. John’s Riverside Hospital - Yonkers
• Social Worker, Group Homes: Abbott House - White Plains
• Case Manager - Days with w/e rotation: NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley - Cortlandt Manor
• Care Manager (PM): Northwell Health - Briarcliff Manor
• Medicaid Service Coordinator (aka Case Manager-Social Worker): Jawonio - New City
• Activities Coord.-Alzheimer's Care: Meals on Wheels Programs & Services of Rockland - Nanuet
• Court Advocate: Safe Homes of Orange County - Newburgh
• Part-Time Peer Support Specialist: The Mental Health Association of Westchester County, Inc. - Tarrytown
• Purchasing Agent: Abbott House - Irvington
• Director of Communications: Putnam ARC (PARC) - Brewster
• Workshop Planning/Communications Consultant - Center for Creative Land Recycling - Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• Social Worker/Program Coordinator: Family Services of Westchester, Inc - Mount Kisco
• BCBA Larchmont: Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. - Larchmont
• Residence Manager: Cardinal Mccloskey Svcs. - New Rochelle
• Teacher Assistant - Full Time: Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health - Mount Kisco
• Youth Counselor: Green Chimneys - Brewster
• Employment Specialist: Hudson River Housing - Poughkeepsie
• Peer Support Mentor: Mental Health Empowerment Project - Mount Vernon

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