Social Worker

Good Shepherd Services, Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Services, Ltd in the Bronx is seeking a Social Worker to deliver home-based and on-site counseling within the North Bronx Family Service Center. The role emphasizes strength-based, trauma-informed practice and coordination with ACS and community resources.

You will manage a caseload, engage families at referrals, participate in safety conferences, and document via SBC processes, with a 35-hour work week, non-exempt, onsite with occasional hybrid scheduling.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree required or candidate in a master’s program.
• Child welfare experience preferred.
• Ability to work at least 2 evenings per week.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and counseling skills.
• Commitment to strength-based, trauma-informed youth and family development.

Responsibilities

• Provide home-based and on-site individual, family, and group counseling for a caseload of twelve families.
• Engage families upon referral and participate in ACS Child Safety Conferences when applicable.
• Implement SBC practices: assessment, outcomes, action plans, documentation and celebration.
• Handle case-related crises professionally, including reports to State Central Registry.
• Conduct screenings for mental illness, safety, and caregiver capacity in the home.
• Integrate SBC into every counseling session and ensure monthly child contacts.
• Represent participant needs at ACS and GSS meetings and trainings.
• Collaborate with ACS, schools, medical and mental health clinics, and other resources.

Skills

Counseling skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Inquiry skills

Evening availability

Education

Master's degree

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The North Bronx Family Service Center is a Child Welfare prevention program for families known to ACS due to allegations of abuse & neglect or mental health issues. The Social Worker provides home-based, intensive, strength-based, comprehensive services using the Solution-Based Casework (SBC) framework.

Reports To: Supervisor

Location: 2471 Morris Ave. Bronx, NY 10468

Hours: 35 hours, non-exempt Position is onsite. Hybrid schedule is at discretion based on needs of the program.

• Passionate about providing high-quality services to families in child welfare
• A lifetime learner, continuously developing your clinical skills
• Dedicated to modeling strength-based, trauma-informed practice with families and colleagues.
• Committed to the Good Shepherd Services mission, vision and values, and possesses cultural humility.
• Work from a clinical perspective to support and advocate for the needs of families

Major Duties:

Direct Work with Families

• Provide home-based and on-site individual, family, and group counseling, as well as short-term crisis intervention, including advocacy and outreach for designated caseload of twelve (12) families.
• Engage families immediately upon referral, at times participating in Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) Child Safety Conferences.
• Implement and integrate the principles and procedures of Solution-Based Casework (SBC): assessment, family and individual level outcomes, action plans, and documentation and celebration.
• Handle case-related crises with professionalism, urgency, and care, including incidents involving reports to the State Central Registry.
• Conduct screenings and assessments for mental illness, and child safety and well-being, including assessing caregiver capacity, home environment and conditions, discipline methods, etc.
• Integrate the practices of SBC into every counseling session.
• Ensure every child has been seen and properly assessed every month.
• Meet appropriate case work contacts for each family ensuring that all children are seen and assessed monthly.
• Represent participant needs, concerns, and perspectives at all required ACS and GSS meetings and trainings.

Administrative and Advocacy Role

• Collaborate closely with ACS, schools, medical and mental health clinics, and other resources serving family members.
• Provide consultation to and collaborate with Family Workers as needed to ensure high-quality services to families.
• Facilitate referrals to treatment facilities, mental health providers, and other service providers, including escorts to appointments as needed.
• Actively participate in Family Team Conference to provide case information, updates, and assessments in order to obtain recommendations for continued case practice or case termination.
• Participate in case consultation, continued SBC training, and the SBC certification process.
• Prepare and maintain FASP documentation, monthly statistical reports, and case work notes in adherence with agency policy.
• Provide Court reports as needed to inform as to families’ progress or lack of progress in achieving outcomes.
• Maintain appropriate utilization of state and city databases including PROMIS and Connections, as well as other agency databases as needed.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree required or a candidate of a master's program
• Child welfare experience preferred
• Must have strong organizational, interpersonal, and counseling skills
• Must be able to work at least 2 evenings per week to accommodate working families’ schedules
• Must have strong inquiry skills and ability to seek and share internal and external best practices
• Must have a commitment to work from a strength based, trauma-informed & youth and family development perspective