Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Focus

Overview

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Focus) — New York

Akido builds AI-powered doctors. Akido is the first AI-native care provider, combining cutting-edge technology with a nationwide medical network to address America’s physician shortage and make exceptional healthcare universal. Its AI empowers doctors to deliver faster, more accurate, and more compassionate care. We’re building something new for New York City’s independent drivers through the Worker Healthy Living Program (WHLP), a lifestyle medicine–informed program designed to help drivers live healthier, longer lives through food, movement, sleep, stress management, and community.

We’re looking for a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who believes lasting health change comes from trust, consistency, and meaningful human connection — not just information. This role is for someone who loves working directly with people, supporting them through behavioral, emotional, and social challenges, and helping them navigate the realities of busy, high-stress lives.

This isn’t a traditional therapy-only role. You’ll join a small, collaborative care team — including primary care clinicians, advanced practice clinicians, a dietitian, medical assistants, and other care partners — working across in-person and virtual settings, with potential expansion to mobile clinics. You’ll support participants through individual and group-based behavioral health interventions and help integrate mental health, lifestyle change, and social support into a structured six-month program focused on whole-person health.

Beyond participant care, you’ll help shape how the program runs — refining workflows, supporting program operations, and helping design systems that make it easier for drivers to stay engaged in care. You’ll also work alongside Akido’s AI-powered platform to improve care delivery — using technology to reduce administrative burden and strengthen, not replace, human connection.

This is a zero-to-one opportunity
. You’ll be joining early, with real ownership over how the program is built and grown — from how behavioral health support is delivered to how the model scales across New York City. We’re looking for someone who’s energized by ambiguity, comfortable experimenting, and motivated to help turn a promising pilot into a sustainable, community-centered model.

WHLP is grounded in evidence and designed to prevent and manage chronic conditions such as obesity, pre-diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, while also addressing stress, isolation, financial strain, trauma exposure, and work-related challenges.

If you’re passionate about behavioral health integration, community-based care, and building trust with populations that have been historically underserved — this is your opportunity to help reimagine the role of social work in primary care from the ground up.

• Thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary care environment
• Are comfortable working in an early-stage, evolving program — able to move forward with limited direction and help create structure where it doesn’t yet exist
• Enjoy building long-term relationships with participants, not one-time clinical encounters
• Believe behavioral health, prevention, and patient empowerment should be central to healthcare
• Communicate with empathy, cultural humility, and a trauma-informed, non-judgmental approach
• Are excited by working across settings, from a community clinic in Williamsburg to virtual and mobile care across NYC
• Can meet people where they are and help them take the next best step

• Provide 1:1 behavioral health support to WHLP participants, focused on emotional wellbeing, behavior change, and social determinants of health
• Support participants in developing skills related to:
  • Stress management and emotional regulation
  • Coping strategies and resilience
  • Health-related behavior change and habit formation
  • Navigating life transitions, work-related stress, and burnout
• Use evidence-based approaches (e.g., motivational interviewing, brief therapeutic interventions, trauma-informed care) to support engagement and progress
• Support participants through a…