Intake and Assessment Supervisor

City of New York•New York City, NY

About The Position

The Intake and Assessment Supervisor works for the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), within the Division of Youth and Family Justice (DYFJ), overseeing intake, assessment, matching, and placement of youth adjudicated as juvenile delinquents in New York City Family Court and placed with ACS through the Close-to-Home initiative. The role supervises Intake and Assessment specialists and ensures that youth receive timely, comprehensive assessments and appropriate residential placements based on their strengths, interests, needs, and risks. The position involves coordination with youth, families, providers, ACS personnel, detention staff, attorneys, and court staff, as well as maintaining case tracking, data collection, and reporting systems. Field work is required at juvenile justice secure and non-secure facilities and other Close-to-Home sites. The selected candidate will be offered a salary of $94,276. The position is only open to candidates who are permanent (not provisional) in the civil service title Child Welfare Specialist Supervisor.

Requirements

Must be permanent (not provisional) in the civil service title Child Welfare Specialist Supervisor.
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and 30 semester credits toward a Master of Social Work, or a graduate degree in a related field.
At least eighteen months of child welfare casework experience.

Responsibilities

Supervise and oversee Intake and Assessment specialists in their day-to-day operations, including intake, assessment, matching, and placement of youth placed with ACS through the Close-to-Home initiative.
Ensure dispositional orders are accurate and comprehensive intake and assessment are completed in a timely manner, including reviewing and synthesizing court, legal, health, education, and social history documents and assessing youth and family needs and strengths.
Oversee coordination of collateral interviews in detention or in the community with youth, families, providers, and ACS personnel before a youth’s transfer to residential placement.
Ensure youth are matched to providers that can cultivate their strengths and interests and address their needs and risks within no more than 15 calendar days, or as otherwise required by law.
Manage ongoing relationships and collaboration with DYFJ’s Confirm Unit, Placement and Permanency Unit, detention staff, contracted staff, attorneys, and court staff to ensure timely and contemporaneous information sharing.
Ensure required screenings and assessments are completed, and that provider matching, transfer of responsibility, and monitoring by ACS-contracted placement providers and Placement and Permanency staff occur in a timely manner.
Review required paperwork submitted by Intake and Assessment staff for accuracy, including paperwork for connections, legal tracking systems, and court reports.
Coordinate with DYFJ Detention, Operations, Placement and Permanency, Planning, Policy and Performance, other ACS cross-divisional units, and ACS-contracted provider agencies to support coordination, oversight, monitoring, and technical assistance.
Maintain a case-tracking, data-collection, and reporting system to identify placement trends, review incidents, and assess placement needs and capacity.
Conduct field work for intake oversight at juvenile justice secure and non-secure facilities and other sites governed by Close-to-Home.