Cardinal McCloskey Community Services
Location
Bronx, NY | United States
Job description
Social Work Supervisor - Enhanced Family Foster Care Planner
$67k
Join a Team Where your Work Truly Makes a Difference.
At CMCS (Cardinal McCloskey Community Services), our mission is to protect, empower and promote independence for at-risk children and families and those with developmental disabilities through quality community-based services.
As a Social Work Supervisor , for the Enhanced Family Foster Care Planner. Y ou will play an important role in the lives of the people we support. You will oversee a unit of case planners providing services and overseeing service delivery to families in the NYC foster care system. Assumes a teaching role as to the purpose, structure, and function of the Agency, together with on-going and new methods of sound Social Work practices. Involves a readiness to listen and an ability to apply the benefits of prior experience to new situations. Strives to encourage all supervisees to develop a sense of awareness of their own responsibility to share in decision making and case progression.
Position Responsibilities:
- To provide, through regular weekly Supervisory Conferences, on-going direction, training, and guidance to Case Workers in fulfilling their responsibilities.*
- To monitor and ensure that permanency goal has been established for each and every child and to monitor progress in the achievement of that goal.*
- To orient new Case Workers to the Agency and their responsibilities.*
- To orient new Parent Advocates to the Agency and their responsibilities.*
- To ensure the timely implementation of clinical, academic, and other recommendations.*
- To ensure Case Workers' delivery of service in accord with the standards promulgated by ACS and NYSDSS.*
- To ensure the Agency's accountability as related to the above via Progress Notes, FASP'S, etc.*
- To participate in Service Plan Reviews, Treatment Team Meetings, and Family Team Conferences.*
- To participate in Transfer Conferences.*
- To formally review the plan for each child via the Family Team Conference, Treatment Team Meetings /Service Plan Review Update on a semi-annual basis.*
- To participate in In-Service Training.*
- To participate in Monthly Supervisor's Training Sessions and Staff Meetings.*
- To evaluate on an ongoing basis the performance of each Case Worker in the unit, sharing significant information with that worker and with the department Administrative Director and/or Foster Boarding Home Director when indicated.*
- To prepare formal evaluations of caseworkers after the initial 3 months of employment and annually thereafter.*
- To provide supervisory case coverage in the absence of the Case Worker.*
- To oversee both the accumulation and the ongoing usage of paid time off..*
- To supervise staff in time management to ensure effective use of time.*
- To conference and consult with other professionals both within and outside of the Agency when indicated.*
- Additional duties/responsibilities as required to meet the needs of the department/agency.
- To develop expertise in assessment tools and Evidence Based Models used by the program, including, but not limited to, Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up, and Partnering for Success.
Requirements:
- Master's Degree in Human Services and experience in child welfare system.
- Supervisory and managerial experience
CMCS offers excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan, generous paid time off, flexible work schedules.
We encourage you to join our dedicated and diverse workforce by applying today!
CMCS offers excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan, generous paid time off, flexible work schedules.
We encourage you to join our dedicated and diverse workforce by applying today!
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