What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Counselor - Case Worker position at Good Shepherd Services?
Title: Case Worker
Reports To: SOCIAL WORK SUPERVISOR
Location: 503 5th Avenue in Brooklyn, NY
Hours: 35 hours, Non- Exempt
Salary: $50,000 - $55,000 Annually Based on relevant post graduate experience
Job Summary: The Brooklyn Transitions Program is a specialized borough-wide prevention program for families challenged by substance use and/or mental health issues. The Social Worker/Case Worker provides home-based, intensive, strength-based, comprehensive services using the Solution-Based Casework (SBC) framework.
Our superstar candidate is:
Our superstar candidate is:
- Passionate about providing high quality services to families in child welfare
- A lifetime learner, continuously developing their clinical skills
- Dedicated to modeling strength-based, trauma-informed practice with families and colleagues.
- Culturally humble with a commitment to the Good Shepherd Services mission, vision, and values
Major Duties:
Direct Work with Families
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 eight (8) 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 substance use, 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 that every child has been seen and properly assessed every month.
- Meet appropriate case work contacts for each phase of treatment: Initial, Baseline, and Stabilization.
- Represent participant needs, concerns, and perspectives at all required ACS and GSS meetings and trainings.
Administrative and Advocacy Role
- Collaborate closely with ACS, alcohol and other drug treatment providers, 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.
- Collaborate with ACS Family Services Unit (FSU) staff, Family Court Legal Services (FCLS) staff and other service providers in making safety and treatment decisions.
- Attend and participate in Family Court hearings for families involved with ACS FSU.
- Facilitate referrals to alcohol and substance abuse treatment facilities, mental health treatment providers, and other service providers, including escorts to appointments as needed.
- Actively participate in Clinical Diagnostic Team meetings (CDTs) 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:
- Bachelor’s degree required, (Social Work, Human Services, Psychology, Sociology, Counseling or other humanities degrees will be considered.
- Child welfare experience preferred
- Bilingual - English/Spanish 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
- SBC trained and/or SBC certified a plus
Salary : $50,000 - $55,000