- Location
- Queens, NY, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
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
Interventionist will provide direct home-based interventions to address risk factors, increase protective factors, and ensure the safety of families.
Provides home-based clinical treatment utilizing the Functional Family Therapy – Therapeutic Case Management (FFT-TCM) model to assigned caseload of up to 10 cases and provides coverage for peer's caseload as needed
Manages the extensive travel requirements involved in serving families in their homes.
Conducts assessments including intakes, review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying relational patterns, and individualized treatment planning.
Engages families to sign for services and completes intakes with families within the required ACS timeframes.
Participates in all required agency, model and stakeholder trainings, individual and group coaching and staff meetings.
Adheres to model expectations and implement with fidelity including the timely completion of progress notes, session planning guides, session impact scales and appointment notes in the Care4 documentation system.
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 are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.
Qualifications
Education Requirement:BA Social work, Sociology, Psychology related field
Preferred Core Competencies:
Ability to engage clients
Willingness and ability to be strength focused
Ability to problem solve and make decisions
Willingness to advocate for caregiver, youth, and family
Ability to manage stress and self-care
Ability to maintain high level of self-awareness
Ability to receive and execute feedback in a timely manner
Ability to be comfortable with cultural differences; to relate in ways that are respectful, strength-focused,
