Full Job Description
THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $94,276.00.
THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CANDIDATES WHO ARE PERMANENT (NOT PROVISIONAL) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIST SUPERVISOR.
The Intake and Assessment Supervisor will be responsible for performing the following duties, but not limited to:
- Responsible for supervision and oversight of Intake and Assessment specialist assigned to day-to-day operations including the intake, assessment, matching, and placement of youth who are adjudicated as juvenile delinquents in New York City Family Court and placed with ACS under the Close-to-Home initiative.
- Responsible to assure accuracy of dispositional orders, ensure a timely comprehensive intake and assessment including review and synthesize of pertinent court, legal, health, education, and social history documents, assessment of youth and family needs and strengths.
- Oversee the Intake and Assessment specialist and assure they coordinate collateral interviews in detention or in the community with youth, families, providers, and ACS personnel prior to the youth's transfer from detention to residential placement, and appropriate match of youth to providers that can best cultivate their strengths and interests and address needs and risks over a period of no more than 15 calendar days, or as otherwise required by law.
- Manage and maintain ongoing relationships and collaboration (e.g., meetings) with DYFJ's Confirm Unit, DYFJ's Placement and Permanency Unit, detention DYFJ and contracted staffs, attorneys, and court staff to ensure that information is relayed in a timely and contemporaneous manner.
- Ensure all relevant screenings and assessments are completed and matching of a youth to providers and transfer of responsibility and monitoring of youth to ACS-contracted placement providers and Placement and Permanency staff occur in a timely manner.
- Responsible to review all required paperwork for accuracy submitted by Intake and Assessment staff required for connections, legal tracking systems and court reports.
- Engage with DYFJ's Detention, Operations, Placement and Permanency, Planning, Policy and Performance, other ACS cross-divisional units, and ACS-contracted provider agencies to ensure appropriate coordination, oversight, monitoring, and technical.
- Responsible to maintain an ongoing case tracking, data collection, and reporting system that informs the identification of placement trends, review of incidents, placement needs and capacity.
Special note:
- Will require field work for oversight of intake that include juvenile justice secure facilities and non-secure facilities as well as additional sites governed by Close to Home.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a candidate for employment with child-caring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report.
TO APPLY
Please go to www.cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #730881.
No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted.
Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIST SUPER - 52370
Qualifications
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and 30 semester credits toward a Master of Social Work or a graduate degree in a related field, and at least eighteen months of child welfare casework experience.
