Social Worker I - Child and Family Support Services CFTSS (58860)

University Settlement partners with 40,000 New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn every year to build on their strengths as they achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For over 135 years, we’ve collaborated with our communities to pioneer highly effective programs that fight poverty and systemic inequality. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening to their perspectives, recognizing their excellence, understanding them as complete individuals, and creating space for them to organize. Joining together with our neighbors to advocate for justice and equality, we help build community strength.    

We work with New Yorkers of all ages. We infuse a commitment to civic engagement, equity, and communal action into each of our programs, which include early childhood education, mental health and wellness, benefits assistance and eviction prevention, adult literacy and education, healthy aging, community, and recreation centers, performing and visual arts, and youth development. 

University Settlement's Community Based Children and Family Treatment and Support Services provides flexible, trauma-informed and culturally competent services to children's and families where they need them. Through a continuum of supports and services The Settlement works individually with children and families to develop plans that build on their strengths, supports independence and ensures that children function optimally in their homes, their schools and in the community. Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment provide psychoeducation, mental health counseling and support, skill building and coping strategies that enables children to gain mastery over challenges and flourish developmentally. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide individualized services, including counseling to children and families in the home/community 

• Provide Intensive Interventions, Crisis Avoidance, and Intermediate Term Crisis Management, and/or Skill Building as required in child’s treatment plan 

• Provide crisis intervention and develop crisis management plan 

• Coordinate care with schools and other systems impacting the child and family 

• Instruct clients on behavior modification techniques in the school setting 

• Conduct intensive outreach to client and family 

• Assess family strengths and needs 

• Facilitate service delivery in accordance with family treatment plan 

• Must become fully knowledgeable of the mental health resources in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn 

• Coordinate treatment plans and collaborate with service providers and community partners 

• Maintain complete case management records, data collection and documentation as required by the program and according to Medicaid requirements 

• Become trained in and execute evidence-based models where required 

• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree required and certification in an Evidence Based Practice consistent with CPST or BA with three years applicable experience in children’s mental health, addiction, foster case/child welfare/juvenile justice or related human services field
• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related human services field, plus one year of applicable experience preferred

• Firm understanding of racial inequity, strength-based work, child and youth development, attachment, trauma, and family dynamics 

• Demonstrated ability to work with and engage hard-to-reach populations as well as families and youth impacted by trauma, poverty, complex stressors, violence, mental health, etc. 

• Experience providing community and home-based services from a culturally competent and trauma-informed approach 

• Ability to navigate and support families effectively through crises 

• Excellent verbal, written and technology skills required 

• Ability to be a proactive and creative team player is a must 

• Strong organization and time management skills is a must 

• Proven track record of effectively working autonomously is a must 

• Comfortable traveling to and working in families’ homes and communities 

• Bilingual skills in English/Spanish, English/Cantonese or English/Mandarin a plus 

• Experience with young children (0 - 5 years) or domestic violence or with adolescents favorable. 

Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, flexible schedule with late afternoon hours required, 35 hours per week 

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. We support a broadly diverse team that will contribute to our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

Salary : $53,000 - $56,000