Home Finding Coordinator (ORR) (Bilingual Spanish)

Heartshare Human Services Of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 63,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, and life保险

403(b) retirement plans with employer

Paid vacation, sick, personal days

Tuition Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

HeartShare Human Services of New York seeks a Home Finding Coordinator to support Nuevo Camino foster care services in Brooklyn. You will manage residential records, train and assist foster families, and coordinate services to ensure safe, healthy homes for unaccompanied minors in a trauma-informed program.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent), at least two years of related experience, and a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• Minimum 2 years of related experience in the field.
• Driver’s license required; driving may be essential for the role.
• Experience with refugee and/or immigrant populations preferred.
• Strong organizational and detail orientation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and model organizational values.

Responsibilities

• Complete detailed, accurate written reports for each home assigned, including annual narratives and home studies.
• Maintain complete, audit-ready foster home case records.
• Serve as primary contact for foster families on your workload.
• Support foster parents by coordinating services and attending meetings as needed.
• Receive and apply required training to deliver foster parent training.
• Participate in ORR–Nuevo Camino training per mandates.

Education

Bachelor's degree from four-year college or equivalent

2 years of similar experience

Driver’s License

Job description

Hot Job

Offsite - Brooklyn, NY

Overview

Salary Range

$30.21 - $32.06 Hourly

Position Type

Full-Time

Job Shift

Day

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Travel Percentage

Up to 75%

Description

Heartshare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) Nuevo Camino program is dedicated to providing 38 unaccompanied minors, ages 5-12, with a supportive, nurturing environment through transitional foster homes, daily education Monday - Friday, and supportive wrap-around services in the Brooklyn section of New York City. Our program is rooted in ensuring that service delivery is trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, and tailored to the needs of each child while maintaining all program requirements of ORR.

Home Finding Coordinatorsensure that every youth in transitional care has a safe, healthy, and nurturing foster home. Home Finders ensure that all agency, city, state, and federal regulations and requirements are strictly followed, and accurately documented. Home Finders ensure that foster families feel supported and valued while providing loving care for every child in their home. Home Finders provide training and guidance to foster families, to help them to raise happy, healthy, and secure children.

Essential Functions and Primary Responsibilities of Position:

• Completing detailed, accurate, and timely written reports on all homes assigned to them, including annual reauthorization narratives, home studies for newly trained and kinship homes, and addenda for all homes, as needed.
• Ensuring that all foster homes on their workload have foster home case record files that are complete, accurate, tidy, and audit-ready at all times.
• Being the point of contact for all of the foster families on their individual workloads,
• Assist and support foster parents in meeting challenges and achieving success, through participation in administrative meetings, referral for additional services, or other interventions, as necessary.
• Receive training and certification allowing home finder to deliver required foster parent training and subsequently deliver said training as requested.
• Participate in required ORR – Nuevo Camino training per the federal and state mandates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from four-yearcollege or equivalent
• 2 yearsof similar experience
• License Needed: Driver’s License.
• Experience in child welfare/case management strongly preferred.
• Prior experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations preferred.
• Stable judgment as well as sensitivity to various cultures and the unique history of refugees.
• Exceptionally organized and detail-oriented
• Successful in a fast-paced work environment
• Commitment to Nuevo Camino's core mission and values and an ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners, and commitment to empowering refugees and migrants.

At HeartShare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on full-time/part-time status. You canexpect:

• Rewarding Work in a team environment.
• Paid vacation, sick, personal days, and holidays.
• 403(B) retirement plans with employer contribution.
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit).
• Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.
• Tuition Assistance Program.
• Professional Development opportunities.
• Wellhub Discount
• Verizon Wireless Discount.
• Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates & more

HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out [e-mail] .

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