Mentor - CW - AMP

The New York Foundling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Foundling in New York, NY is seeking a Home-Based Mentoring Specialist to provide direct services to youth and families in home settings, helping reduce risk and achieve treatment goals.

You will document progress in multiple databases, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and travel to families' homes to conduct assessments and safety plans, ensuring effective treatment planning and continuity of care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human/social service fields or related area.
• 2 years of relevant experience in child welfare or social services.
• Strong writing and communication abilities, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide home based services to youths via individual or group sessions.
• Engage caregivers to ensure engagement and goal attainment.
• Document session progress in Evolv, Connections, Promis and Care4.
• Collaborate with colleagues and community providers for planning.
• Assess safety, complete safety plans, and incident reports as needed.
• Conduct intakes and initial assessments for new cases.
• Participate in supervision, trainings, and staff meetings.

Skills

Writing

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Time management

Organization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human/Social Service fields

Job description

Overview

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

Mentors and Coaches work with youth to instill core values such as problem solving, communication, responsibilities, and time management to address problematic behavior and encourage change.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide home based services to youths via individual or group sessions to decrease risk and safety factors and meet their goals and needs.
• Engage primary caregivers and other key participants throughout treatment to engage in sessions and overcome barriers to engagement when they arise to ensure successful goal attainment.
• Complete timely and accurate documentation of session progress and collateral notes in all databases that includes Evolv, Connections, Promis and/or Care4 to support treatment fidelity, tracking, and planning.
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues, community providers and model/external stakeholders to connect families to resources and support ongoing treatment communication and collaboration for effective treatment planning.
• Continuously assess for families safety, addressing crises, completing safety plans and incident reports in a timely manner as necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of all families served by the program with an emphasis on decreasing system involvement (could include after hour/on call support).
• Conduct intake through the completion of initial assessments and gather essential consent forms for new cases, ensuring timely case openings, completeness of information and family understanding of services to achieve a smooth start to treatment.
• Participate in group, individual supervisions, trainings, all staff meetings and community outreach events to strengthen professional development, skill growith, group cohesion and community visibility.
• Provide case coverage for peers, as needed, to ensure consistent clinical support within the team.

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 areinclusive, equitable and welcoming.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Human/Social Service related field (including education, psychology, social work, or a related subject area).

• Must have 2 years of relevant experience in child welfare, social services, or a related field and a desire to work with children and families.
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and connect with a diverse client population to engage them in services throughout treatment.
• Ability to receive and execute feedback to professionally grow and/or improve and be flexible with programmatic needs and changes. Ability to manage stress, self-care and maintain a high level of self-awareness.
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requirement to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect of any child).
• Must be comfortable and able to travel and visit families in their homes and perform safety assessments.
• Demonstrated strong commitment to safety.

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:

$53, 970.64 +(Education Additive $3,800 + Bilingual Additive $3,500)