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About the Role
The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) seeks a Child and Family Specialist to facilitate conferences and support Child Protection divisional best practices. This role focuses on family support, well-being, child safety, risk, and permanency, ensuring appropriate safety decisions and plans for children.
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 concerning children, families, provider agencies, divisional partners, and Family Court during conferences.
- Utilize a decision-making process involving stakeholders, children, families, service providers, and community resources to make referral recommendations.
- 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 teams and Investigative Consultants to identify critical issues and barriers.
- 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.
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
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1+ year post-graduate experience
- 3+ years experience
Education Level
- Masters Degree in 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.
- The Office of Family Team Conferencing's primary function is the facilitation of a continuum of conferences and other related duties as required in support of Child Protection divisional best practices.
- CFS focuses on, family support, well-being, child safety, risk, and permanency.
- The facilitated Child Safety Conference is to ensure the most appropriate safety decisions and safety plans are developed to prevent removal when safe to do so and/or decide on the best suitable out of home placement that will keep the child safe from imminent danger and harm through the exploration of familial and fictive kin resources to help expedite and support placement and permanency.
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.