Job Description

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Responsibilities

• Report to the program AVP, and/or covering leadership; attend weekly clinical meeting to report on cases, staff development, and personal development and coaching.
• Manage and oversee the assigned team model/program by providing guidance and direct supervision for the implementation of services and ensure team’s integration.
• Model adequate standard of care for tutors and coaches by conducting best practice with clients through adherence and regulatory standards from stakeholders.
• Develop and Implement outreach and onboarding plan in partnership with ACS to help the engaged of newly entering and current college students; including support with summer-bridge program that helps new program participants who are attending college for the first time better acclimate to and have the skills to succeed in a college environment.
• Conduct weekly group supervision for assigned team to assure adherence to model/program principles and associated analytic process. Assure that clinicians achieve engagement with all key participants.
• Applies and is adherent to NYF Coaching and Mentoring Model for the program as well as the performance evaluation process.
• Responsible to ensure the team develop a success plan for each student that takes into account the student’s interests, strengths, and areas of growth, and sets a clear path toward degree completion within a reasonable amount of time; regularly review and update this plan regularly as needed.
• Review of session notes to facilitate prompt feedback and support around excellence in services, and for staff development opportunities/learning.
• Assure appropriate and timely documentation of services in all databases to allow for peer and supervisory input, and to meet all reporting and communication needs of funding and referral sources.
• Assure excellent quality of services.
• Collaborate with AVP to develop program manual and implement program manual to the team.
• Collaborate with peer supervisory team to develop and implement program manual for students that describes all program resources available to students, as well as program expectations.
• Responsible for referral management of assigned team or program as per agency/program/ACS guidelines.
• Develop internal agency programs knowledge to support the team in linking students to appropriate mental health services.
• Implement ongoing assessment to identify students experiencing challenges and ensure that they are referred to the appropriate CUNY (or other, as appropriate) mental health resources.
• Review treatment plan and incident reports to identify and address risk factors that give rise to possible child removal, ACS involvement, and out of home placement due to continued referral behavior (applicable for all Child Welfare programs).

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

Qualifications

With prior work experience in Education and/or Social Work setting, Bachelor Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology

Master’s degree - Preferred

Other Requirements

• Good leadership and interpersonal skills
• The ability and willingness to work with stakeholders and AVP to ensure program practice/standard.
• Prior experience working with at-risk youth or youth with special need strong preferred.

Preferred Experience:

• 1- 2 years of relevant experience in evidence-based services, preventive settings, Academic/mentoring/coaching, and/or school based mental health services
• 2-3 years of accumulated experience (internships through post-graduate) providing direct services to youth and their families in their homes and/or communities
• Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, Email, and Data entry systems (e.g. Connections, Electronic Health Record).
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Experience in managing direct service providers who engage with the identified populations or similar population in high-risk court-involved youth either in Family Court or Adult Court, Child-Welfare programs.
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requiring staff to comply with promulgated requirements to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment, or neglect of any child).
• Experience with and willingness to work with culturally diverse population, computer literacy, able to research current information on medical, social and legal issues.
• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e. structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e. family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Creating and following a Treatment Plan
• Comfortable and adaptable to changes

Education Required

Bachelor’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institution

Recruitment Tagline

Hiring Impact, Changing Lives Together

Salary Range:

$73, 854.55 +(Education Additive 3,800 + $3,500 Bilingual Additive)