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About the Role

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) manages child welfare and juvenile justice services. The Office of Family Team Conferencing facilitates conferences and supports child protection best practices, including processing out-of-home foster care placements for children at risk. The role focuses on family support, well-being, child safety, risk, and permanency, ensuring appropriate safety decisions and plans to prevent removal when safe, or to determine the best out-of-home placement.

Responsibilities

Attend and facilitate all FTC’s focusing on child safety, risk, well-being, and permanency.
Ensure placement and discharge decisions align with ACS commitments, values, and principles.
Address critical issues and concerns of children, families, provider agencies, divisional partners, and Family Court during conferences.
Utilize a decision-making process involving key stakeholders, children, families, service providers, and community resources.
Make recommendations for referrals and resources when appropriate.
Prepare and complete administrative functions, including timely documentation of conferences, data, action plans, and reports.
Complete Expedited Home study packages (5300 series) with kinship resources.
Make DOAS requests for items to support children in kinship resources homes.
Request Emergency Funds/Miscellaneous Reimbursement Payments for kin resources.
Interface with interagency critical support resources such as clinical consultation team, MCHU, and Investigative Consultants.
Provide case conferencing and consultation to ensure appropriateness of decisions and service plans.
Consult with FCLS attorney for guidance on legal posture and court orders.
Provide conferencing in the family's natural community when appropriate, necessary, and safe.

Requirements

Must pass the next open competitive exam for the Civil Service Title to avoid being "bumped" out of the position.
Permanent Child and Family Specialists are encouraged to apply.
Must be able to inquire whether a candidate has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report per Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law.

Skills

Facilitation of family team conferences
Family group decision-making meetings
Family engagement
Consensus-based decision-making
Clinical group work with children, youth, parents, or individual families
Conducting professional training on child and family services topics
Case conferencing
Consultation

Location

2501 Grand Concourse Street
1200 Waters Place
2100 Bartow Avenue

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

At least one year of full-time, satisfactory, post-graduate experience
At least three years of experience
Up to two years of supervision experience may be applicable
At least one year of required experience must have been obtained in the last five years

Education Level

Masters Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work
Valid New York State Registration as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Valid New York State Registration as a Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW)

Salary/Compensations

$84,863.00 - $97,593.00
USD 84863 - USD 114446

About the Company

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports.
ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services and provides subsidized childcare vouchers.
ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment.
In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement and programs for youth in the community.

Equal Opportunity

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.